Cuba wel gay rights as progrsive fay tak hold | Rters

Contents:

• CUBA APPROV LAW CHANGE THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS
• GAY UPL CUBA MARRY UNR NEW LAW
• CUBA PUBLISH DRAFT FAY THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE
• CUBA ASSEMBLY OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS
• CUBA WEL GAY RIGHTS AS PROGRSIVE FAY TAK HOLD
• CUBANS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE BY LARGE MARG REFERENDUM
• GAY UPL CUBA MARRY UNR NEW LAW
• GAY COUPL 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".

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 PUBLISH DRAFT FAY THAT OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE

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.

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. Rights a untry that once sent gay men to labor 67 percent of voters, nearly 4 ln, voted favor, acrdg to the Cuban ernment. 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. The Cuban ernment had once viewed homosexualy as a dangero aberratn.

CUBA ASSEMBLY OPENS DOOR TO GAY MARRIAGE, OTHER FAY RIGHTS

In the 1960s, Fil Castro’s revolutnary ernment helped spread a wave of homophobia on the island when he packed gay men off to labor mps, a form of punishment and ercn to niece, Mariela Castro, has been leadg the charge for L.

CUBA WEL GAY RIGHTS AS PROGRSIVE FAY TAK HOLD

”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.

CUBANS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE BY LARGE MARG REFERENDUM

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.

GAY UPL CUBA MARRY UNR NEW LAW

“In 2007, we celebrated for the first time the Internatnal Day for the Fight Agast Homophobia and Transphobia Cuba.

HAVANA, 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.

GAY COUPL CUBA MARRY UNR NEW LAW

"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.