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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- GAY UPL CUBA MARRY UNR NEW LAW
- CUBA APPROV LAW CHANGE THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS
GAY UPL CUBA MARRY UNR NEW LAW
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.
CUBA APPROV LAW CHANGE THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS
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.
”Lra Gil wh her mother, Lisset Diaz Vallejo, center, outsi the notary office after her mother married her partner, Liba Grajal, Francis / APThe was approved after heavy mpaigng by the Cuban ernment, and support by the most vol advote for gay rights on the island, Mariela Castro, the dghter of former print Rl ma Cuba the nth untry Lat Ameri — followg Chile, Costa Ri, Ecuador and Colombia — to legalize gay marriage recent electns — which no party other than the Communist is allowed — routely produce victory margs of more than 90% — as did a referendum on a major nstutnal reform 2019. ” The text faced a large mpaign agast om evangelil groups that reject gay marriage.
Ismael Francis / APThe new law go further than equal marriage — which activists tried to clu the Constutn 2019 whout succs — or the abily for gay upl to adopt or e law regulat for the first time visatn rights of grandparents over grandchildren and munitn wh step parents suatns of divorc, and even ctody of mors latter when ’s necsary for the child’s also allows for separate property regimens for married upl, thoriz parents to choose the orr of their children’s surnam, extends protectns for the disabled and elrly, among other women nsired the marriage a way to also protect their children if somethg were to ever happen to, also drsed her bt drs for the ocsn, didn’t que unrstand her mother’s marriage ceremony, but walked around troducg her Lra. In some ral areas, the appeared to receive ls the untry’s pal of Havana received 70% approval, and Villa Clara — home of Liba and Lisset — received 66%, southeastern Holgu got phback “dit that we have to keep workg those areas and epen and direct tnal work, ” said Francis “Paquo” Rodriguez, a blogger and one of the first Cuban activists for the rights of the LGBTQ he still lled the new a a pri flag over her balny, Lisset Diaz Vallejo sweeps the siwalk ont of her hoe Francis / APCuban thori did not disclose how many gay upl were married the three weeks, although Rodriguez thks uld be at least dozen based on the rmatn he’s gotten om social media. “In 2007, we celebrated for the first time the Internatnal Day for the Fight Agast Homophobia and Transphobia Cuba.