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
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.
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GAY PRI CRACKDOWN: 4 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT LGBTQ RIGHTS CUBA
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CUBANS CELEBRATE GAY PRI PARA
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.
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