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Contents:

• CUBA'S FIRST GAY HOTEL REOPENS AS HUMAN RIGHTS TERRATE
• LA HABANA GAY, OCHO LUGAR IMPRCDIBL
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• CUBA WEL GAY RIGHTS AS PROGRSIVE FAY TAK HOLD
• GAY CUBA
• THE BEST CUBA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS CUBA
• GAY CUBA TRAVEL GUI
• UNVERG GAY HAVANA, CUBA
• ADOLCENT PARA TURISMO GAY

CUBA'S FIRST GAY HOTEL REOPENS AS HUMAN RIGHTS TERRATE

Above the entrance, the rabow flag, the ternatnal symbol of gay pri, fluttered the warm Caribbean breeze.

While guts enjoyed the five-star service by the pool or a walk along the priste sands, Cuba has not always been so welg to the gay muny. In the early part of munist lear Fil Castro's le, homosexual men and women were sent to work mps for supposed "re-tn". Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The hotel is part of a strategy by the thori to attract ep-pocketed gay touristsA jot venture between Muthu Hotels and Gavta, Cuba's ary-n tourism pany, the Rabow Hotel was placed on a US ernment list of sanctned enti Cuba even before was gurated 2019.

Amid such harsh treatment, some Cuban gay rights' activists say the Rabow Hotel is an attempt by the state to mask s poor human rights rerd. We chat ont of the Hotel Telegrafo, due to be unveiled soon as Cuba's send LGBTQ hotel as the state doubl down on s pursu of the gay tourist dollar. If the ernment's ph towards gay tourism n help reigne bs, says Mr Lopez, he is all for .

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" The guratn of gay hotels as the ernment is about to put a change to the untry's "fay " before the people. Yet, he says, even the gay rights stggle Cuba has been -opted by the state. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Cuba has seen a huge drop tourism bee of the panmicIn 2015, symbolic same-sex weddgs were held at Havana's ernment-sanctned gay pri march.

But an pennt gay pri march a few years later was quickly shut down.

They jt hope all visors - whether gay or straight - make themselv aware of the wir human rights ntext of their trip. In the early 1960’s, after Fil Castro took power, many gay people were sent to ernment work mps alongsi polil dissints.

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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.

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Studyg their performance on homoerotic circus Havana, the text analys how the pgueros when alg wh foreigners negotiate masculy and inty; also discs the lolly nstcted ncepts of genr and sexualy, on one hand, and natn and survival on the other.

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Keywords: Cuban revolutn, male sexual work, pgueros, homoerotic ambienc, Sexual tourism Havana, la lucha, new man. I met him on a summer night 2008, while I was strollg Havana’s downtown wh a Cuban gay iend. I am particularly terted examg their efforts to craft a legimate social space wh the work of Havana’s homoerotic ambiente [environment or scene]3as well as evaluatg how such experience fluence how they unrstand genr and sexualy.

CUBA WEL GAY RIGHTS AS PROGRSIVE FAY TAK HOLD

For some pgueros, the disurse of la lucha serv as an stment for homoerotic -intifitn and the negotiatn of masculy, but equently as a means for avoidg the tegory of sex worker. Official disurse views pgueros rervedly, as do many homosexuals who nstct them siar ways, often perceivg them as lazy youngsters. In addn, homosexuals often nste pgueros as void of a genue homoerotic nfiguratn and a clear fn of their sexual inty (Sierra Maro, 2006; Stout 2008).

Followg the analogy between the sexed human body and the natnal rp, lonizatn has been theorized as an act of peratn (Sierra Maro, 2006) based on the tradnal mol of unrstandg homoeroticism7 and sexualy as a whole. 8 Acrdgly, both homosexuals and prostut symbolized bourgeois nce and lonial peratn. Wh the natnalist logic that predomat today unr Raúl Castro, pgueros should not be rejected for their potential homoeroticism, sce homosexualy has recently been -opted and assiated wh the amework of the “polilly rrect” sexual diversy, thanks largely to the efforts of Raúl’s dghter, Mariela, founr of CENISEX, a state agency voted to precisely that e.

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Pgueros do not nform to a homogeneo uny; there are different typ of experienc and gradatns that notably fluence their mos of teractg wh foreigners. Even though pgueros allowed themselv to be perated, they say they are active and always try to hi the fact that they are passive bee if they accept , they would be admtg that they are homosexuals.

At one time, I thought I was a big macho man and rejected anythg that smacked of homosexuals, but I realized that orr to survive, I had to beiend transvt, gays, lbians bee Yumas10 go lookg for their ambiente.

Therefore, an extremely plex and diverse group is reprented beforehand as a homogeno and predictable uny. The impact of globalizatn Cuba has been felt not only the rise of an emergent tourism enomy that has brought large divinds to some social el as a rult of plex procs of creasg social equaly and palizatn that affect the majory of the populatn, but has also generated an enomy of pleasure for gay tourists accsible to all e levels.

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The servic are featured talogu available to moneyed ternatnal gay ctomers. Ángel, a young man and native of Havana, do not “do the streets, ” he offers a personalized service, exclive only to a select clientele of bsmen, tellectuals or foreign artists who want to have a homoerotic experience wh young Cuban.

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” The lack of money and his plans to leave Cuba at all st, led him to hang around the Malecón where he beme exposed to the Habanero homoerotic environment, somethg he had never thought to be volved :. If homosexualy did not exist, I would starve to ath.

Reier noted that havg sex wh men did not change his perceptn of homosexualy bee he se as somethg alien to his ner sir and feelgs and above all bee his ia about is associated wh embracg an inty and not jt about havg sex.

For Reier, embracg a homoerotic inty impli a rejectn of sex wh women and engagg an exclive relatnship wh a man:.

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Beg a homosexual means somethg else.

I sleep wh men to make a livg, but I don’t see myself as a homosexual.

Although Reier distanc himself om homosexualy, he nces that the homoerotic environment has been fundamental to his performance and survival and that after spendg time those works he is no longer as judgmental as he once was.

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” However, spe his trangement om homosexualy, he nfs that he has felt pleasure durg some of his homoerotic enunters:. I now see homosexualy as somethg normal. At the end of the day we are homosexuals and those who say otherwise, ’s bee they are eher nial or are pla stupid.

Although they might have sex wh other men or out the space of “la lucha” and although most s they might fe themselv as homosexuals, pgueros do not embrace the “g out” notn as a visible and proud dividual act the Amerin or European style. Pgueros’ perceptns of homosexualy vary om dividual to dividual.

You n be a homosexual but not a flamg queen. “Many homosexuals are more men than many pgueros, ” says Ángel, addg:Pgueros give a place a bad reputatn, so hangg out wh them mak you look bad bee if they say hi to you ont of a foreigner, I might be seen as bad too, that I beiend lquents.