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Contents:

• GAY HAVANA
• UNVERG GAY HAVANA, CUBA
• HAVANA GAY PRI
• HAVANA GAY BARS
• ANNUAL GAY8 FTIVAL RETURNS TO LTLE HAVANA SUNDAY
• DEFIANCE AND ARRTS AT CUBA’S GAY PRI PARA

GAY HAVANA

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 Acquire Licensg RightsMany 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. Meanwhile, church that oppose gay marriage have powerful platforms for spreadg their msage which they wield to their advantage durg the nstutnal revamp, gatherg signatur for a petn agast the article that would have opened the door to gay marriage and railg agast at church gathergs.

UNVERG GAY HAVANA, CUBA

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. > Gay Cuba Gay HavanaHavana is the pal cy of Cuba and there's no other cy on earth que like .

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ANNUAL GAY8 FTIVAL RETURNS TO LTLE HAVANA SUNDAY

Esleras al Cielo is loted Old Town Havana close to the "La Rampa" gay area of Havana. 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.

Gay8 is a ee and fay-iendly event. 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.

“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. It was also a remr that the ernment, which once sent gay men to work mps the early days of Fil Castro’s le, had ma nsirable advanc L.

DEFIANCE AND ARRTS AT CUBA’S GAY PRI PARA

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 6 of the New York edn wh the headle: Defyg Officials, Gay Cubans Hold a Colorful March to the Sea.