Sopse: Documentár no qual Flávia Castro, a diretora, nta a trajetória s pai, Celso Afonso Gay Castro (1943 - 1984), uma vida marda pela ância políti e por sucsivos exíls. A diretora renstrói as memórias afetiva e faia
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FIL CASTRO’S HORRIFIC RERD ON GAY RIGHTS
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Celso Afonso Gay Castro. A diretora Flavia Castro faz um filme que mostra s passado, s pai ( CELSO AFONSO GAY DE CASTRO), sua família e ss amigos.
O publi nhece Celso Gay Castro e enten a granza do ser humano em sua graça e natureza, ser imperfeos que amamos perfeição, nossos pais. Amid the fawng enia released upon his long-overdue ath at the age of 90, should never be fotten that he was also an opprsor, torturer, and murrer of gay people.
“We would never e to believe that a homosexual uld embody the ndns and requirements of nduct that would enable to nsir him a te revolutnary, a te munist ant, ” Castro told an terviewer 1965. ” In the ey of Castro and his revolutnary ra Che Guevara—who equently referred to gay men as marin, “faggots”—homosexualy was herently unterrevolutnary, a bourgeois nce. To a tradnal Lat Amerin machismo that viewed gayns pejoratively, they married an iologil fixatn treatg as polilly unsirable.
IS THE CASTRO GETTG LS GAY?
It wasn’t long after Castro me to power that police began roundg up gay men. In 1965, the regime tablished prison work mps known as Milary Uns to Aid Productn (UMAP), to which posed homosexuals, Jehovah’s Wns, and other “unsirable” elements. Alert to this news, the Mattache Society—one of the earlit gay rights anizatns the Uned Stat—held monstratns outsi the Uned Natns and the Whe Hoe succsively over two days.
Four years before the world-famo Stonewall rts, the were two of the first gay rights protts held the Uned Stat. That same year, Allen Gsberg was expelled om Cuba for spreadg mors that Rl Castro—Fil’s brother and succsor as print—was gay and claimg that Guevara was “cute. ” Puttg gays to ncentratn mps is not the only practice Castro borrowed om the Nazis.
Though the Cuban regime closed down the UMAPs the late 1960s, ntued to reprs gay men as iologilly subversive elements. Openly homosexual people were prevented om jog the Communist Party and fired om their jobs.