<p>Gay wrer Realdo Arenas was persecuted by Castro's homophobic regime. Now a film about his life has outraged Fil's followers. By Peter Tatchell</p>
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GREAT WRERS WHO WERE GAY
* cuban gay writer *
The followg year, Arenas was persecuted by the Castro regime for his openly gay liftyle.
He was openly gay and often wrote about his life as a homosexual man. He is bt known for his works that al explicly wh transvtism and male homosexualy. While his five-novel sequence entled Pentagonia nstut a sharp crique of the Cuban ernment’s thorarian character regardg ternal dissince and disagreement, his tobgraphy Ant que anochez (Before Night Falls) is a powerful acunt of the difficulti of beg a homosexual wrer Cuba and the absolute impossibily of beg outsi Cuba.