In Cuba, a spl over t. reforms favor of gay marriage, boostg women's rights

Contents:

• CUBA WEL GAY RIGHTS AS PROGRSIVE FAY TAK HOLD
• CUBA PUBLISH DRAFT FAY THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE
• IN CUBA, A SPL OVER T. REFORMS FAVOR OF GAY MARRIAGE, BOOSTG WOMEN'S RIGHTS

CUBA WEL GAY RIGHTS AS PROGRSIVE FAY TAK HOLD

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[1/5]Gay rights activist and profsor Adiel Gonzalez kiss his hband Lazaro Gonzalez as they walk on the street Matanzas, Cuba, November 2, 2022. REUTERS/Alexandre MeneghiHAVANA, Nov 14 (Rters) - Cuban Pedro Rafael Delgado, a 56-year-old acuntant, saw his life change dramatilly jt days after Cuba approved a set of laws by referendum September that allow gay more than a , Delgado, who works at a Communist Party office, lived as "iends" wh his 62-year-old partner, Adolfo Lopez.

CUBA PUBLISH DRAFT FAY THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE

"Beg gay was the embarrassment of the fay and I always lived wh that, " he told 's fay , a set of measur and regulatns that tablish the rights of all Cubans, regardls of sexual orientatn, to marry and adopt children, changed everythg, Delgado activists and experts nsulted by Rters say the sweepg, ernment-led mpaign to promote the law did more to morate entrenched homophobia and machismo than the fe prt of the self - which erns the totaly of fay relatns and not jt issu related to sexual orientatn. RESETWhile Cuba has long been hailed as the vanguard of Lat Ameri's left, had lagged behd regnal neighbors on marriage equaly, cludg Argenta, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, who moved more quickly years past to approve gay marriage and other socially progrsive transgenr medil stunt Ariana Meros, of Matanzas, rells two years earlier explag to her universy rector that "he" was now a "she.

REUTERS/Strger HAVANA, March 30 (Rters) - Cuba's munist ernment is seekg to rally support for a new fay that would open the door to gay marriage and boost women's rights, but experts and a recent survey suggt an upg referendum vote may not provi a bber support for the reforms, which clash wh the island's entrenched "machista" culture, threatens to hand state-backed supporters a feat amid a ernment ph to enurage open and ank proposed 100-page , unr scty town-hall style meetgs throughout Cuba, groups together a swath of new regulatns on fay nduct.

It overhls several 1975 laws om the era of former Cuban Print Fil 2010 acknowledged the persecutn of gays on the island, who were round up shortly after his 1959 revolutn and placed forced labor mps. "The repeatedly stat parents and urts should grant maturg offsprg more say over their the oute of the referendum vote, slated for sometime this fall, is far om Cuban Roman Catholic Church has lashed out agast gay marriage, sayg the proposal is riddled wh "genr iology" that threatens parental thory and would lead to "doctratn of children schools whout parental nsent. By Marc Frank and Dave SherwoodHAVANA (Rters) - Cubans will st ballots this Sunday on whether to approve a new 'fay ' that would legalize gay marriage and boost women's rights, wh the ernment urgg cizens to vote "y" spe anger over the worst enomic crisis Communist-n ernment - long the vanguard of Lat Ameri's left - has the last week flood state-n media wh stori and celebratory imag promotg a vote favor of the mpaign has clud promotnal spots on rad and TV, eye-tchg roadsi billboards toutg diversy, ralli along Havana's picturque Malen oceanont plana, and tweets om Print Miguel Diaz-Canel, who has lled a "y" vote a vote " favor of mocracy.

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

2 ln rints participated, a dialogue the ernment says has assured the voice of the people has been most vol and anized opposn has e om Christians - Catholics, Methodists and 's Catholic Bishops Conference last week cricized the cln of gay marriage the , among other elements, a missive read om pulps across the Caribbean island natn. Participant wav a rabow flag durg the annual March agast Homophobia and Transphobia Havana, Cuba May 13, 2017. 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 (Rters) - 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 LGBT activists participate an annual monstratn agast homophobia and transphobia Havana, Cuba May 11, 2019.

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

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. CENESEX, head by Mariela Castro, the dghter of Communist Party lear Rl Castro, said a statement that certa groups were planng to e the event to unrme the ernment, embolned by the latn of aggrsn by the Tmp admistratn agast Cuba and s leftist ally Uned Stat has for s fanced often vert programs to promote mocracy on the island and unrme the Communist many LGBT activists said they felt 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. Activists promoted the march on social works thanks to the expansn of the ter Cuba recent years that has more broadly seen creasg numbers of Cubans mobilize onle over certa issu, sometim apparently managg to fluence ernment for example postponed the full implementatn of a cree clampg down on the arts after an onle mpaign prottg the law, and stepped back on regulatns erng the private sector after entreprenrs and experts far, however, the ernment has retaed tight ntrol over physil public spac, mostly rtrictg march to exprsns of support for the ernment, like the recent Labor Day nga Havana was an exceptn that beme a regular occurrence, and a remr that the ernment, which once sent gays to work mps the early days of Fil Castro’s 1959 revolutn, had ma nsirable advanc LGBT rights recent untry guarante rights such as ee sex-change operatns and forbids discrimatn on the basis of sexualy, a regn where some untri still have anti-sodomy LGBT activists say they felt the ncellatn of the nga was a sign those rights are beg erod, possibly bee a recent public nsultatn over a new nstutn revealed that there was more opposn to the muny than prevly Cubans exprsed their opposn to a change the draft nstutn that would have explicly opened the door to gay marriage.

Cuba’s munist ernment is seekg to rally support for a new fay that would open the door to gay marriage and boost women’s rights, but experts and a recent survey suggt an upg referendum vote may not provi a bber support for the reforms, which clash wh the island’s entrenched “machista” culture, threatens to hand state-backed supporters a feat amid a ernment ph to enurage open and ank proposed 100-page , unr scty town-hall style meetgs throughout Cuba, groups together a swath of new regulatns on fay nduct.

RtersThe Cuban Roman Catholic Church has lashed out agast gay marriage, sayg the proposal is riddled wh “genr iology” that threatens parental thory and would lead to “doctratn of children schools whout parental nsent.