Several blocks of Calle Ocho will shut down Sunday for the sixth annual Gay8 Ftival, which is focg on eedom for Cuba for this year’s ftivi.
Contents:
- CUBA WEL GAY RIGHTS AS PROGRSIVE FAY CO TAK HOLD
- ANNUAL GAY8 FTIVAL RETURNS TO LTLE HAVANA SUNDAY
- GAY PRI CRACKDOWN: 4 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT LGBTQ RIGHTS CUBA
- CUBANS CELEBRATE GAY PRI PARA
CUBA WEL GAY RIGHTS AS PROGRSIVE FAY CO TAK HOLD
Gay rights activist and profsor Adiel Gonzalez kiss his hband Lazaro Gonzalez as they walk on the street Matanzas, Cuba, November 2, 2022.
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ANNUAL GAY8 FTIVAL RETURNS TO LTLE HAVANA SUNDAY
"Beg gay was the embarrassment of the fay and I always lived wh that, " he told 's fay , a set of measur and regulatns that tablish the rights of all Cubans, regardls of sexual orientatn, to marry and adopt children, changed everythg, Delgado says. Polil Cartoons on World Lears But activists and experts nsulted by Rters say the sweepg, ernment-led mpaign to promote the law did more to morate entrenched homophobia and machismo than the fe prt of the self - which erns the totaly of fay relatns and not jt issu related to sexual orientatn. RESETWhile Cuba has long been hailed as the vanguard of Lat Ameri's left, had lagged behd regnal neighbors on marriage equaly, cludg Argenta, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, who moved more quickly years past to approve gay marriage and other socially progrsive transgenr medil stunt Ariana Meros, of Matanzas, rells two years earlier explag to her universy rector that "he" was now a "she.
Several blocks of Calle Ocho will shut down Sunday for the sixth annual Gay8 Ftival, which is focg on eedom for Cuba for this year's ftivi. Gay8 benefs the nonprof 4ward Miami and is an opportuny to nnect diversy and engage the muny real nversatns.
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GAY PRI CRACKDOWN: 4 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT LGBTQ RIGHTS CUBA
You n jo takg actn on equaly and more the past 11 years, the Cuban ernment has anized an annual march agast homophobia Havana, but a week before this year’s event rolled around, the natnal Center for Sex Edutn (CENESEX) abptly nceled cisn seemed to be a part of a broar rollback of LGBTQ rights throughout the untry, so lol activists cid to take matters to their own hands by stagg their own Pri march on May of people showed up to march, wave rabow flags, and nvey solidary the streets of the pal cy. In recent years, LGBTQ activists have felt growg ristance to their fight for police ta gay rights activists takg part an unthorized march Havana, Cuba, Saturday, May 11, police ta gay rights activists takg part an unthorized march Havana, Cuba, Saturday, May 11, More: LGBTQ Groups Banned From Organizg Around the World: ReportHere are four thgs to know about LGBTQ rights Cuba. This went on until 1979, when homosexualy was crimalized, but LGBTQ people ntued to face wispread discrimatn.
Today, many untri still ban same-sex acts, wh some ernments even threateng LGBTQ people wh the ath More: The 6 Countri Execute People for Beg Gay2. Cuba has ma progrs recent yearsCuba has largely end s state-sanctned opprsn of LGBTQ people, and has ma notable progrs toward equal ernment ma illegal to discrimate agast LGBTQ people 2010, and announced that genr nfirmatn surgeri would be ma ee unr the untry’s universal health re program 2008, acrdg to the More: Indonia's Persecutn of LGBTQ People Is Fuelg an HIV EpimicThe advanc put Cuba way ahead of the global norm, where equal rights for LGBTQ people are rarely enshred the LGBTQ people Havana report that they feel safe to go out public and var gay night clubs have popped up recent years, but harassment and ernment surveillance ntue.
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CUBANS CELEBRATE GAY PRI PARA
The se gets right to the pot about s objective — to “overe the taboos and prejudic that persist about same-sex love: Beg homosexual or bisexual is not a disease; is not synonymo wh perversy, nor do nstute a crime.
Homosexualy, the webse mak clear, “is a sexual orientatn that is not ed by sctn at any age; is not ntag and is not acquired by tnal fects or negative exampl the fay environment.... ” When asked by a BBC reporter September 2006 whether perceptns about homosexualy had changed Cuban society, Castro Espín answered, “I thk so; has changed very much. She told terviewer Eduardo Jiménez García: “I do believe that sce the 1990s, there is greater acceptance of the prence of homosexuals by some portn of the populatn and public stutns.