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.
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- RAúL CASTRO GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 89 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY
- RL CASTRO'S DGHTER TO PH FOR GAY MARRIAGE CUBA
- CASTRO ADMS 'JTICE' FOR GAYS AND LBIANS DURG REVOLUTN
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. * is raul castro gay *
It seems like every celebry has been lled gay at some pot or another. Many of the gay mors surroundg Raúl Castro (Cuban print) seem to be tied to his obssive attentn to his body, like most policians.
RL CASTRO'S DGHTER TO PH FOR GAY MARRIAGE CUBA
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
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.