Gay Pri Crackdown: 4 Thgs to Know About LGBTQ Rights Cuba

Contents:

• GAY PRI CRACKDOWN: 4 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT LGBTQ RIGHTS CUBA
• CUBA'S FIRST GAY HOTEL REOPENS AS HUMAN RIGHTS TERRATE
• DEFIANCE AND ARRTS AT CUBA’S GAY PRI PARA
• CUBA'S GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TAKE TO THE STREETS FIANT AND PROUD
• GAY PRI CUBA (A CONSTANT BATTLE)
• HAVANA GAY PRI
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS CUBA
• UNVERG GAY HAVANA, CUBA
• CUBA NCELS S ANNUAL GAY RIGHTS PARA, ‘CONGA AGAST HOMOPHOBIA’

GAY PRI CRACKDOWN: 4 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT LGBTQ RIGHTS CUBA

HAVANA, May 17 (Rters) - Cuba draped s health mistry wh a giant rabow flag on Monday to mark Internatnal Day agast Homophobia, a key year for LGBT+ rights as the Caribbean untry cis on a new fay that uld approve same-sex, 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 island natn troduced the right to ee sex-change operatns, banned workplace discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn, and started holdg annual ngas agast homophobia - Cuba's equivalent of gay to spend the nga this year due to the COVID-19 panmic, Havana add a touch of gay pri through the giant rabow flag stead. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghi 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. "Some LGBT+ activists pla that brgg about change society has been plited by the fact that grassroots mpaigng outsi state stutns is at bt tricky Cuba, and at worst n-s wh Communist years ago there was a schism the LGBT+ muny when a small group of activists held an pennt gay pri march, which eventually was dispersed by police.

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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.

CUBA'S FIRST GAY HOTEL REOPENS AS HUMAN RIGHTS TERRATE

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DEFIANCE AND ARRTS AT CUBA’S GAY PRI PARA

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CUBA'S GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TAKE TO THE STREETS FIANT AND PROUD

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HAVANA — Salsa mic blasted through the streets of Havana's Vedado neighborhood on Saturday as hundreds of people danced and waved rabow flags durg a march to mark the 11th annual Cuban Campaign agast homophobia.

"We are workg together wh the state, wh the party, wh civil society, to te the Cuban people, to change mdsets and to advance our rights, " Mariela Castro, a Cuban lawmaker and dghter of Communist Party chief Rl Castro, Satday, Castro was joed by Chilean transgenr actrs Daniela Vega, who starred the Osr-wng film "A Fantastic Woman, " and Mike Jackson, a proment LGBTQ activist, durg the march to end homophobia and, a longtime advote for LGBTQ rights Cuba, announced on Monday she would ph for same-sex marriage to be clud a nstutnal reform procs expected to beg march, known as a Cuban nga — the island's versn of an LGBTQ pri para — is part of a growg ph Cuba to allow the untry's once fiercely persecuted LGBTQ populatn to experience greater visibily. Throughout this article, we will go through some ndid advice on safely travelg around Cuba, which of Havannas’s gay bars and clubs are the bt, as well as explorg Santa Clara’s liberal cy and Mi Cayo which is Cuba’s Gay Beach.

GAY PRI CUBA (A CONSTANT BATTLE)

It was once named after s historil ti to a late revolutnary figure Santa Clara, but has sce bee the polil re for LGBT activism and is also seen as Cuba’s ma gay landmark. While the pri paras were stopped 2019, the ernment sanctned the openg of the untry’s first gay hotel, the Gran Muthu Rabow Hotel and there has been discsn of regnizg the rights of same-sex upl.

You’ll fd a visible queer scene Havana: the Vedado neighborhood, along the Malacón at Mi Cayo beach, which is popular wh gay men, and bars and clubs that reflect a more nocent, pre-Grdr time.

HAVANA GAY PRI

AdvertisementSKIP Lage/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagMay 12, 2019HAVANA — Chantg “Long live a diverse Cuba” and rryg rabow flags, Cuban gay rights activists held an unthorized pri para Havana this weekend spe a warng agast by the Communist ernment, which lled subversive, a highly unual show of civil disobedience the one-party than 100 Cubans marched om Havana’s Central Park to the seaont boulevard before beg stopped by dozens of secury least three activists were arrted by placloth police officers, and others were orred to disperse bee the march did not have an official perm. Activists had lled for their own para after the state-n Natnal Center for Sex Edutn, or Cenex, last week abptly nceled s 12th annual nga agast homophobia, Cuba’s equivalent of gay natnal center nounced the alternative para as a “provotn, ” and several activists said that they had received threats eher anonymoly on social media or om state secury person not to attend — not that stopped march on Saturday was the send such event anized penntly of state stutns — prevly a rare occurrence Cuba — jt over a month.

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS CUBA

“This moment marks a before and an after for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny, but also for Cuban civil society more generally, ” Maykel González Vivero, an pennt journalist and L.

Activists said that they believed the ernment was reactg more to prsure om evangelil church, which have a growg followg Cuba and have mpaigned agast the expansn of gay rights.

While there have been large grassroots movements for gay marriage, there have also been those agast ; church, for example, have released statements clarg marriage as exclively “between a man and a woman” and put up posters wh this msage. The history for trans people Cuba is equally as dark and shameful as that for gay people; machismo also has a big impact as trans women are seen as ‘renouncg’ their masculy. HAVANA - Cuban gay rights activists held an unthorized pennt pri para Havana on Saturday spe the Communist ernment warng agast and llg subversive, an unprecented show of civil society the one-party than a hundred Cubans chantg “long live a diverse Cuba” and rryg rabow flags joyfully marched nearly one kilometer (0.

UNVERG GAY HAVANA, CUBA

Strger / Rters“This moment marks a before and an after for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny but also for Cuban civil society more generally, ” said pennt journalist and LGBTQ activist Maykel Gonzalez Vivero.

CUBA NCELS S ANNUAL GAY RIGHTS PARA, ‘CONGA AGAST HOMOPHOBIA’

Activists lled for their own para after the state-n Natnal Center for Sex Edutn (CENESEX) earlier this week abptly nceled s 12th annual nga agast homophobia - Cuba’s equivalent of gay pri.