Cubans approve gay marriage by large marg referendum | Rters

Contents:

• CUBA APPROV LAW CHANGE THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS
• CUBANS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE BY LARGE MARG REFERENDUM
• GAY UPL CUBA MARRY UNR NEW LAW
• CUBA LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
• CUBA ASSEMBLY OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS
• GAY UPL CUBA MARRY UNR NEW LAW

CUBA APPROV LAW CHANGE THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS

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. The law required 50% of voters' approval to be reforms were the culmatn of efforts by gay rights activists Cuba.

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". 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.

CUBANS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE BY LARGE MARG REFERENDUM

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.

GAY UPL CUBA MARRY UNR NEW LAW

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.

Une victoire du « oui » nstuera un virage à 180°, la part d’un régime muniste qui, du temps Fil Castro, nsidéra l’homosexualé me un « vice » la société paliste et 1965 et 1968, nombre d’homosexuels ont été ternés dans s mps pour « réhabilatn » r nsidérés – asi que l prêtr – me s ntre-révolutnnair. En Amérique late, l’Argente, le Brésil, la Colombie, le Costa Ri, le Chili, l’Équatr et l’Uguay ont déjà approuvé le mariage homosexuel.

L’toré électorale cubae a annoncé ce lundi 26 septembre que le Co la fale, qui clut le mariage homosexuel et la gtatn pour ti, a été « approuvé » par référendum, précisant que l résultats partiels donnant 66% sufag favorabl étaient « irréversibl », femme trans, t rennue me la mère sa fille blogique. La nouvelle loi va obtenir pl 50% pour être approuvée et entrer en « solidaire » et adoptn homoparentaleLe texte, qui remplace désormais l’ancien Co la fale datant 1975, t un s pl progrsist d’Amérique late en matière dros sociétx.

CUBA LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE

Il déf le mariage me l’unn « ux personn », légalisant asi le mariage homosexuel, et torise l’adoptn homoparentale. « Homosexualé, l rniers ndamnés », lrs hr sombrQuelque 8, 4 lns Cubas ont été appelés dimanche à répondre par oui ou par non à la qutn: « Êt-vo d’acrd avec le s fal?

REUTERS/Alexandre MeneghiHAVANA, July 22 (Rters) - 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 new Fai Co will be put to a referendum vote on Sept. HAVANA, Sept 26 (Rters) - Cubans approved gay marriage and adoptn overwhelmgly a Sunday referendum backed by the ernment that also boosted rights for women, the natnal electn missn said on than 3.

Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said. The 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 Castro. It ma Cuba the nth untry Lat Ameri -- followg Chile, Costa Ri, Ecuador and Colombia -- to legalize gay marriage recent years.

CUBA ASSEMBLY OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS

The text faced a large mpaign agast om evangelil groups that reject gay marriage. The 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 surrogat.

Cuban 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.

Rights a untry that once sent gay men to labor 67 percent of voters, nearly 4 ln, voted favor, acrdg to the Cuban ernment.

GAY UPL CUBA MARRY UNR NEW LAW

Relatns wh the measure passed largely bee of the belief among many rints that “the are matters that the law should not regulate strictly, ” and s time was past overdue, Profsor Coll law also allows for surrogate pregnanci, clus measur agast genr vlence and enurag upl to equally share the load wh Lat Amerin untri have taken siar steps recent years to addrs gay rights.

Rights Pappier and Cristian González Cabrera, rearchers at Human Rights Watch, wrote a lumn that was wrong for the Cuban ernment to engage “the polil pageantry of puttg dividual rights, cludg the right of gay and lbian upl to be ee om discrimatn, to a populary vote.