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RAúL CASTRO GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 89 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY

Many of the gay mors surroundg Raúl Castro (Cuban print) seem to be tied to his obssive attentn to his body, like most policians. However the poll suggts that a big majory (89%) of rponnts don't believe that he’s gay. * raul castro gay *

Las fotos que “lo enzaron todo” en torno a la suputa homosexualidad Raúl Castro, fueron exputas por el prentador cubano, Alex Otaola, durante el programa Hola! “Es o no homosexual Raúl Castro.

RL CASTRO'S DGHTER TO PH FOR GAY MARRIAGE CUBA

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Esa pregunta se ha hecho s hace mucho, en todo el mo sobre su homosexualidad”, dijo Otaola. ¿Con ta foto en la faia Fil Castro hablaba los homosexual? De Raúl Castro se ha dicho que sería homosexual o bisexual, o uno los más popular mos o enigmas entre los cubanos, cuyo origen no preciso.

S embargo, lo que sí existe amplia documentación, el rácter reprivo, aso y los “revolucnars”, ntra los homosexual tras su ascenso al por. Los mpos ncentración a los que fueron enviados los homosexual en Cuba, así o disint, son hechos que hoy pretenn ser borrados por figuras o Mariela Castro, quien venn a las Unidas Milar Ayuda a la Producción (UMAP) o unas “cuelas mpo”, para negar los hechos dants que allí ocurrieron y que provoron su smantelamiento al ser scubiertos por la opión públi ternacnal.

FIL CASTRO’S HORRIFIC RERD ON GAY RIGHTS

Explore Raúl Castro's bgraphy, wiki, worth & salary 2023. Learn about his age, height, weight, datg, wife, girliend, kids and more. Is he gay? * raul castro gay *

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Many of the gay mors surroundg Raúl Castro (Cuban print) seem to be tied to his obssive attentn to his body, like most policians. However the poll suggts that a big majory - 89% - of rponnts don't believe that he’s the poll:What do you thk about the gay mors surroundg Raúl Castro? Mariela Castro, a Cuban lawmaker and dghter of Communist Party chief Rl Castro, says she will ph for same-sex marriage to be clud a nstutnal reform procs expected to beg , who ma the announcement at a prs nference kickg off a week of events leadg up to Havana’s annual march agast homophobia and transphobia, also spoke of the need for tougher sanctns for anti-LGBTQ vlence, acrdg to Lat Amerin news outlet 's nstutnal reform is expected to enpass a wi range of mornizg chang to the untry's 1976 nstutn, which was signed for a Soviet-style mand enomy.

CASTRO ADMS 'JTICE' FOR GAYS AND LBIANS DURG REVOLUTN

Former Cuban lear Fil Castro said he acknowledg the persecutn of gays and lbians durg the Revolutn his untry, acrdg to a newspaper terview published Tuday. * raul castro gay *

The munist ernment has been slowly troducg market reforms and tryg to enurage more teractn wh the global the years followg the 1959 revolutn, which was led by the Castro fay, gays and lbians were fiercely persecuted, acrdg to Michelle Chase, a profsor of Lat Amerin history at Pace Universy and thor of “Revolutn Wh the Revolutn, ” a book outlg the role of genr polics Cuba the 1950s and early ‘60s. "The Cuban ernment began a seri of iativ to reprs the gay and lbian muny, " Chase said, addg that the ernment "closed down a lot of urban nightlife and bars, barred gays and lbians om certa profsns, such as tn, briefly taed gay men street roundups, and — most notorly — imprisoned some gay men forced labor mps.

”While Cuba has end most of s anti-gay polici and now forbids workplace discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, Chase noted LGBTQ people the untry still face social stigma. "Compared to a untry like Jamai, where hostily or even physil vlence toward gay men is mon, ’s rare to fd open exprsns of hostily toward gays and lbians Havana, " she Hernanz, an openly gay woman whose fay fled Cuba nearly four s ago, appld Mariela Castro for advotg for same-sex marriage.

“Had I grown up Cuba as a gay women, I know my life would have been a lot harr due to Cuba’s long history of vlence agast my muny, ” Hernanz, who now liv Hoton, told NBC News. She leads the annual march agast homophobia and transphobia Havana, and her stat as a stnch supporter for LGBTQ rights was even the subject of the 2016 HBO documentary “Mariela Castro’s March: Cuba’s LGBT Revolutn. “As important as gay marriage would be for LGBTQ people on the island, human rights first, ” said Heriberto Sosa, print of Miami-based Uny Coaln/Coalicn Unida, a Lato LGBTQ advocy anizatn.

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Amid the fawng enia released upon his long-overdue ath at the age of 90, should never be fotten that he was also an opprsor, torturer, and murrer of gay people. “We would never e to believe that a homosexual uld embody the ndns and requirements of nduct that would enable to nsir him a te revolutnary, a te munist ant, ” Castro told an terviewer 1965. ” In the ey of Castro and his revolutnary ra Che Guevara—who equently referred to gay men as marin, “faggots”—homosexualy was herently unterrevolutnary, a bourgeois nce.

To a tradnal Lat Amerin machismo that viewed gayns pejoratively, they married an iologil fixatn treatg as polilly unsirable.

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Over the weekend Philalphia, the dghter of Cuban Print Rl Castro and niece of Fil Castro received an award for her gay rights advocy. To unrstand the signifince of Mariela Castro's honor, you have to go back to the 1960's when gay people were sent to forced labor mps. * raul castro gay *

It wasn’t long after Castro me to power that police began roundg up gay men. In 1965, the regime tablished prison work mps known as Milary Uns to Aid Productn (UMAP), to which posed homosexuals, Jehovah’s Wns, and other “unsirable” elements. Alert to this news, the Mattache Society—one of the earlit gay rights anizatns the Uned Stat—held monstratns outsi the Uned Natns and the Whe Hoe succsively over two days.

Four years before the world-famo Stonewall rts, the were two of the first gay rights protts held the Uned Stat. That same year, Allen Gsberg was expelled om Cuba for spreadg mors that Rl Castro—Fil’s brother and succsor as print—was gay and claimg that Guevara was “cute. ” Puttg gays to ncentratn mps is not the only practice Castro borrowed om the Nazis.

Though the Cuban regime closed down the UMAPs the late 1960s, ntued to reprs gay men as iologilly subversive elements.

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Openly homosexual people were prevented om jog the Communist Party and fired om their jobs. One of the untry’s most distguished wrers, Realdo Arenas, reunted the prison experience he and untls other gay men endured his memoir Before Night Falls. “Gays were not treated like human begs, they were treated like beasts.

” Gays prised a signifint portn of the 125, 000 Cubans (“worms, ” Fil Castro’s words) permted to leave the island for the Uned Stat as part of the 1980 Mariel Boatlift. (The 1984 documentary Improper Conduct, which tells the stori of gay and straight Marielos, remas one of the starkt dictments of the Castro regime. ) When the Human Immunoficiency Vis h the island’s gay muny the mid-1980s, the regime’s rponse was to quarante all HIV-posive people sanariums, referred to as “pretty prisons” by the founr of the World Health Organizatn’s Global Program for AIDS.

No doubt attuned to the way which gay rights has bee central to the agenda of a global left creasgly sensive to the claims of inty polics, the Cuban regime recent years has tried to fashn self as beg the vanguard of homosexual liberatn.

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