Cuba's Natnal Assembly on Friday approved a sweepg update of s fay law which opens the door to allowg gay marriage, greater women's rights, and creased protectns for children, the elrly and other fay members.
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- CUBA PUBLISH DRAFT FAY THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE
- CUBA APPROV LAW CHANGE THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS
CUBA PUBLISH DRAFT FAY THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE
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. * mariage gay cuba *
In the early 1960’s, after Fil Castro took power, many gay people were sent to ernment work mps alongsi polil dissints. Though homosexualy was legalized Cuba 1979, many gay men and women said they still faced open discrimatn. Mariela Castro, the dghter of former Cuban print Rl Castro, has openly advoted through a ernment-fund center for improved rights for gays, lbians and transgenr people.
In 2018, Cuban legislators abandoned provisns that would have legalized same sex marriage amid fears that a homophobic backlash would have lowered turnout for a referendum to approve a new nstutn.
Some of those church took advantage of the openg 2018 and 2019 to mpaign agast another plebisce which would have rewrten the nstutn a way to allow gay marriage. Participant wav a rabow flag durg the annual March agast Homophobia and Transphobia Havana, Cuba May 13, 2017.
CUBA APPROV LAW CHANGE THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS
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 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 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. "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 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 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.