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Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)Article 303 prohibs homosexual behavurs (punishable by 3 months prison and/or fancial f)Same-sex marriage Cuba? Participant wav a rabow flag durg the annual March agast Homophobia and Transphobia Havana, Cuba May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Strger Acquire Licensg RightsHAVANA, Sept 15 (Rters) - Cuba published a long-awaed draft of a new fay on Wednday that would open the door to gay marriage if approved, a move that LGBT rights activists appld utly as they remaed wary of whether would actually be implemented.The new f marriage as the "voluntary unn of two people" whout specifyg genr, as opposed to the current fn as the "unn of a man and woman."The draft still needs to go to a grassroots bate, however, and will then be amend to take to acunt cizens' opns before gog to a referendum.
The ernment says wants to build rather than force acceptance of change.In 2018 the ernment cid to whdraw an amendment to Cuba's new nstutn that would have opened the door to same-sex unns after mpaigng by evangelil church."The blueprt for the fay is everythg one uld have hoped for," said Maykel Gonzalez Vivero, director of Tremenda Nota, a digal magaze that foc on women, the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) muny and the Black muny."It took a long time and there was no transparency s termable procs of nearly 15 years. But 's there."Cuba, which sent gays to rrectnal labor mps the early years after s 1959 leftist revolutn, ma nsirable advanc LGBT rights the 2000s and 2010s, spe the wispread persistence of machismo.The island natn troduced the right to ee sex reassignment surgery, banned workplace discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn, and started holdg annual march agast homophobia - Cuba's equivalent of gay pri.Many members of the LGBT muny say, however, they have been trated by a slowdown the pace of change recent years while a handful of other Lat Amerin untri have moved forward wh approvg gay marriage.Reportg by Sarah Marsh Havana.