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• CUBA PUBLISH DRAFT FAY THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY PRI CRACKDOWN: 4 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT LGBTQ RIGHTS CUBA
• EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT CUBA’S LGBT REVOLUTN RABOW FLAG | © HAI YANG / FLICKR JACK GUY 19 JANUARY 2018 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT WHILE LGBT RIGHTS HAVE BEEN STEADILY IMPROVG CERTA PARTS OF THE WORLD, LAT AMERI HAS GENERALLY BEEN SLOW TO REGNIZE MEMBERS OF THE MUNY; THIS, HOWEVER, IS BEGNG TO CHANGE CUBA. VIEW ALL TRIPS CUBA’S PAST POLICI PERSECUTED THE LGBT MUNY LIKE FEW OTHER UNTRI CUBA IS CERTALY NO STRANGER TO THE DISMAL TREATMENT OF LGBT PEOPLE. AFTER THE 1959 REVOLUTN, MUNIST LEAR FIL CASTRO ENACTED A NUMBER OF POLICI THAT LAID BARE HIS ATTU TOWARDS THEM. GAY CUBANS WERE TAKEN TO FORCED LABOR MPS, AND AN AIDS CRISIS LED TO THE TERNMENT OF HIV-POSIVE CIZENS SANATORIUMS THAT WERE ALMOST PRISONS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP SOUTH AI SPA MOROC MEXI CROATIA GREECE BALI TURKEY JAPAN ICELAND EGYPT INDIA THAILAND ECUADOR HOWEVER, SCE 2008, THERE HAS BEEN A SEA CHANGE THE TREATMENT OF LGBT PEOPLE CUBA. IN AN IMPORTANT STEP, THE CUBAN HEALTH SERVICE STARTED OFFERG EE GENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY TO TRANSGENR CIZENS. THEN 2010, CASTRO ADMTED THAT HIS POLICI HAD BEEN UNJT, WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN SNT NSOLATN TO THOSE AFFECTED BUT ME TO BE SEEN AS A CCIAL ADMISSN. MEMBERS OF THE LGBT MUNY HAVANA, CUBA | © MARK MCNTRY / FLICKR NEW GENERATN FIGHTG FOR CHANGE A LOT OF CRED FOR THE CHANGE IS DUE TO MARIELA CASTRO, DGHTER OF CURRENT CUBAN LEAR RL CASTRO AND FIL’S NIECE. SHE SERV THE CUBAN PARLIAMENT AND IS ALSO DIRECTOR OF THE NATNAL CENTRE FOR SEX EDUTN. WHILE ’S NOT ENTIRELY CLEAR WHY THE STRAIGHT, MARRIED DGHTER OF THE CUBAN LEAR HAS TAKEN ON THE FIGHT FOR LGBT RIGHTS AS HER OWN, THERE HAS BEEN SIGNIFINT PROGRS THE TREATMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE MUNY. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP MARIELA CASTRO WAS THE SUBJECT OF AN HBO DOCUMENTARY LLED MARIELA CASTRO’S MARCH: CUBA’S LGBT REVOLUTN, WHICH AIRED NOVEMBER 2016. IT TELLS THE STORY OF THE ACTIVIST’S JOURNEY AROUND THE ISLAND, MEETG LGBT PEOPLE AND SPREADG A MSAGE OF TOLERANCE TO OTHER RINTS. MARIELA CASTRO WH THE FORMER CHILEAN PRINT MICHELLE BACHELET | © GOBIERNO CHILE / FLICKR ATTUS ARE CHANGG CUBA EVINCE OF CREASG ACCEPTANCE ISN’T HARD TO SPOT WHEN YOU’RE ON THE ISLAND. SAME-SEX UPL WALKG HAND HAND THE STREET BARELY RAISE AN EYEBROW HAVANA, AND THE CY OF SANTA CLARA HAS BEE SOMETHG OF A CENTER FOR THE TRANSGENR MUNY. HEAD TO THE EL MEJUNJE NIGHTCLUB TO SEE THE VIBRANT SOCIAL SCENE THAT HAS VELOPED THERE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. IF SOCIAL ATTUS ARE CHANGG, SO ARE THE LAWS. IN 2013, LEGISLATORS VOTED TO OUTLAW WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN, AND THERE ARE CREASG LLS TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. WHILE MANY PEOPLE FD DIFFICULT TO FIVE FIL CASTRO FOR HIS ANTI-LGBT POLICI, THERE IS CREASG EVINCE THAT THGS ARE CHANGG UNR RL CASTRO, WH THE HELP OF DGHTER MARIELA. A POSTER FOR THE “DAY AGAST HOMOPHOBIA CUBA” | © ED AND EDDIE / FLICKR VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• CUBA WEL GAY RIGHTS AS PROGRSIVE FAY TAK HOLD
• IN CUBA, A SPL OVER T. REFORMS FAVOR OF GAY MARRIAGE, BOOSTG WOMEN'S RIGHTS
• CUBA ASSEMBLY OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS

CUBA PUBLISH DRAFT FAY THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, A man sts his ballot on Sunday HavanaCuba has voted to legalise same-sex marriage a natnal two-thirds of the populatn voted to approve reforms a new Fay Co, which will also allow surrogate pregnanci and give gay upl the right to adopt marks a big moment for Cuba, which saw gay people persecuted and sent to work mps the 1960s and 70s. Official attus towards homosexualy on the Communist-n island have changed over the past s, partly thanks to the efforts of former lear Raúl Castro's dghter the early part of munist lear Fil Castro's le after the 1959 revolutn, homosexual men and women were sent to work mps for supposed "re-tn".

This was due to pre-existg machismo culture that was further strengthened by a revolutn that saw difference as a danger and felt gay men were products of nt palism. 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.

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

We have put together a list of our favore gay hook up apps to e while travelg, but you might also want to bsh up on your cisg etiquette if you want some simple fun…. The other posive thg is that more gay travellers provi support for LGBT rights Cuba; gay travellers n make the effort to support gay-owned or gay-iendly bs as well. REUTERS/StrgerHAVANA, 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.

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.

EVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT CUBA’S LGBT REVOLUTN RABOW FLAG | © HAI YANG / FLICKR JACK GUY 19 JANUARY 2018 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT WHILE LGBT RIGHTS HAVE BEEN STEADILY IMPROVG CERTA PARTS OF THE WORLD, LAT AMERI HAS GENERALLY BEEN SLOW TO REGNIZE MEMBERS OF THE MUNY; THIS, HOWEVER, IS BEGNG TO CHANGE CUBA. VIEW ALL TRIPS CUBA’S PAST POLICI PERSECUTED THE LGBT MUNY LIKE FEW OTHER UNTRI CUBA IS CERTALY NO STRANGER TO THE DISMAL TREATMENT OF LGBT PEOPLE. AFTER THE 1959 REVOLUTN, MUNIST LEAR FIL CASTRO ENACTED A NUMBER OF POLICI THAT LAID BARE HIS ATTU TOWARDS THEM. GAY CUBANS WERE TAKEN TO FORCED LABOR MPS, AND AN AIDS CRISIS LED TO THE TERNMENT OF HIV-POSIVE CIZENS SANATORIUMS THAT WERE ALMOST PRISONS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP SOUTH AI SPA MOROC MEXI CROATIA GREECE BALI TURKEY JAPAN ICELAND EGYPT INDIA THAILAND ECUADOR HOWEVER, SCE 2008, THERE HAS BEEN A SEA CHANGE THE TREATMENT OF LGBT PEOPLE CUBA. IN AN IMPORTANT STEP, THE CUBAN HEALTH SERVICE STARTED OFFERG EE GENR REASSIGNMENT SURGERY TO TRANSGENR CIZENS. THEN 2010, CASTRO ADMTED THAT HIS POLICI HAD BEEN UNJT, WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN SNT NSOLATN TO THOSE AFFECTED BUT ME TO BE SEEN AS A CCIAL ADMISSN. MEMBERS OF THE LGBT MUNY HAVANA, CUBA | © MARK MCNTRY / FLICKR NEW GENERATN FIGHTG FOR CHANGE A LOT OF CRED FOR THE CHANGE IS DUE TO MARIELA CASTRO, DGHTER OF CURRENT CUBAN LEAR RL CASTRO AND FIL’S NIECE. SHE SERV THE CUBAN PARLIAMENT AND IS ALSO DIRECTOR OF THE NATNAL CENTRE FOR SEX EDUTN. WHILE ’S NOT ENTIRELY CLEAR WHY THE STRAIGHT, MARRIED DGHTER OF THE CUBAN LEAR HAS TAKEN ON THE FIGHT FOR LGBT RIGHTS AS HER OWN, THERE HAS BEEN SIGNIFINT PROGRS THE TREATMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE MUNY. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP MARIELA CASTRO WAS THE SUBJECT OF AN HBO DOCUMENTARY LLED MARIELA CASTRO’S MARCH: CUBA’S LGBT REVOLUTN, WHICH AIRED NOVEMBER 2016. IT TELLS THE STORY OF THE ACTIVIST’S JOURNEY AROUND THE ISLAND, MEETG LGBT PEOPLE AND SPREADG A MSAGE OF TOLERANCE TO OTHER RINTS. MARIELA CASTRO WH THE FORMER CHILEAN PRINT MICHELLE BACHELET | © GOBIERNO CHILE / FLICKR ATTUS ARE CHANGG CUBA EVINCE OF CREASG ACCEPTANCE ISN’T HARD TO SPOT WHEN YOU’RE ON THE ISLAND. SAME-SEX UPL WALKG HAND HAND THE STREET BARELY RAISE AN EYEBROW HAVANA, AND THE CY OF SANTA CLARA HAS BEE SOMETHG OF A CENTER FOR THE TRANSGENR MUNY. HEAD TO THE EL MEJUNJE NIGHTCLUB TO SEE THE VIBRANT SOCIAL SCENE THAT HAS VELOPED THERE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. IF SOCIAL ATTUS ARE CHANGG, SO ARE THE LAWS. IN 2013, LEGISLATORS VOTED TO OUTLAW WORKPLACE DISCRIMATN BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN, AND THERE ARE CREASG LLS TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. WHILE MANY PEOPLE FD DIFFICULT TO FIVE FIL CASTRO FOR HIS ANTI-LGBT POLICI, THERE IS CREASG EVINCE THAT THGS ARE CHANGG UNR RL CASTRO, WH THE HELP OF DGHTER MARIELA. A POSTER FOR THE “DAY AGAST HOMOPHOBIA CUBA” | © ED AND EDDIE / FLICKR VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

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. 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.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, gay men were routely imprisoned for solicg sex public lotns, ernment workers lost their jobs bee of their homosexualy, and homosexual artists were censored. 7 In another se of historic persecutn, the famo Mariel Boat Lift of 1980, the Castro regime expelled thoands of homosexual Cubans he nsired among other “unsirabl. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Havana’s polici toward s LGBT muny began to change as munist lears around the world began to lean toward a more tolerant policy regardg homosexualy.

9 For example, 1977 the Cuban Natnal Center for Sex Edutn (CENESEX) was found by the Cuban Women’s Feratn, which “enuraged a more enlightened outlook on homosexualy and started to unrme tradnal sexual prejudic and taboos. Some have argued that another explanatn for Havana’s homosexual polici is that Cuba’s ntued pennce on the Soviet Unn for tra and assistance led to a Stalist-style tolerance of homosexualy throughout the earlier part of the .

CUBA WEL GAY RIGHTS AS PROGRSIVE FAY TAK HOLD

14 The annulment of many of the remag laws the Penal Co that had prohibed homosexual nduct allowed thori to release those who had been prevly imprisoned for homosexual activy. 15 Durg this perd, the Cuban thori began to show greater tolerance toward homosexualy orr to enforce safe sex and to ga polil support for the regime om the LGBT muny and om cril ternatnal observers. The Cuban ernment began to produce films and documentari nmng discrimatn agast homosexualy, and the medil muny Cuba began to scribe homosexualy as a natural mory ndn rather than a perverse choice.

In addn, prev public sndal laws that penalized those who “publicly flnted their homosexual ndn” were later changed to those who engaged “sexual sult, ” ditg a more most tone agast homosexualy.

IN CUBA, A SPL OVER T. REFORMS FAVOR OF GAY MARRIAGE, BOOSTG WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Although he once vulgarly referred to homosexuals as “agents of imperialism, ” and praised the Cuban untrysi for supposedly beg ee of homosexualy, his recent claratns exprs a much more tolerant sentiment. 24 Gay rights activists, both Cuba and abroad, have acced the Cuban thori of applyg the crime of “pre-crimal dangerons” unfairly to homosexuals, and ignorg plats of those who have been beaten or fired om their jobs bee of their sexual orientatn.

25 Other gay rights activists have cricized Mariela Castro for her nsistency and hypocrisy when to gay rights, argug that gay rights activists ntue to be imprisoned, beaten, or simply disappear while she provis ltle more than lip service to the issue. The most negative reviews nced the belief that the show was important, but as a way to warn people of homosexualy’s nsequenc rather than a way to promote tolerance and acceptance toward . 28 While the nnectn to gay rights is margal at bt, such an act do suggt yet another attempt by the Castro regime to mornize and adapt to the changg mands of s society.

CUBA ASSEMBLY OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS

Whether this more lenient policy translat to greater rights for gays the near future is unclear, but certaly suggts a willgns to nsir more progrsive ctoms, which is another promisg sign. Penalti towards gay men have gradually been rced, the ernment has exprsed s support for gay rights, and even gay civil unns have been serly proposed and nsired.

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. In recent years, LGBTQ activists have felt growg ristance to their fight for police ta gay rights activists takg part an unthorized march Havana, Cuba, Saturday, May 11, police ta gay rights activists takg part an unthorized march Havana, Cuba, Saturday, May 11, More: LGBTQ Groups Banned From Organizg Around the World: ReportHere are four thgs to know about LGBTQ rights Cuba. Cuba has ma progrs recent yearsCuba has largely end s state-sanctned opprsn of LGBTQ people, and has ma notable progrs toward equal ernment ma illegal to discrimate agast LGBTQ people 2010, and announced that genr nfirmatn surgeri would be ma ee unr the untry’s universal health re program 2008, acrdg to the More: Indonia's Persecutn of LGBTQ People Is Fuelg an HIV EpimicThe advanc put Cuba way ahead of the global norm, where equal rights for LGBTQ people are rarely enshred the LGBTQ people Havana report that they feel safe to go out public and var gay night clubs have popped up recent years, but harassment and ernment surveillance ntue.