Are You Gay? Che Guevara Would Have Sent You To A Concentratn Camp
Contents:
- FIL CASTRO TAK BLAME FOR PERSECUTN OF CUBAN GAYS
- ARE YOU GAY? CHE GUEVARA WOULD HAVE SENT YOU TO A CONCENTRATN CAMP
- FIL CASTRO TAK BLAME FOR 1960S GAY PERSECUTN
- CUBA'S FIRST GAY HOTEL REOPENS AS HUMAN RIGHTS TERRATE
- CUBA WANTS YOU TO THK IT’S A GAY PARADISE. IT’S NOT.
- MORE THAN 100 GAY MEN 'SENT TO PRISON MPS' CHECHNYA
FIL CASTRO TAK BLAME FOR PERSECUTN OF CUBAN GAYS
Image ptn, Mr Castro told Carmen Lira that he had not paid enough attentn to the treatment of homosexualsFil Castro has said that he is ultimately rponsible for the persecutn suffered by homosexuals Cuba after the revolutn of former print told the Mexin newspaper La Jornada that there were moments of great jtice agast the gay muny.
ARE YOU GAY? CHE GUEVARA WOULD HAVE SENT YOU TO A CONCENTRATN CAMP
In the 1960s and 70s, many homosexuals Cuba were fired, imprisoned or sent to "re-tn mps" Castro said homosexuals had tradnally been discrimated Cuba, jt as black people and women. But, neverthels, he adms he didn't pay enough attentn to what was gog on agast the gay muny. "In 1979, homosexualy was crimalised and, more recently, there have been efforts to legalise same-sex unns.
FIL CASTRO TAK BLAME FOR 1960S GAY PERSECUTN
In addn to beg an advance rights, uld also be terpreted as an act of historil jtice wh a regime that locked up homosexuals s early days.
CUBA'S FIRST GAY HOTEL REOPENS AS HUMAN RIGHTS TERRATE
Homosexuals and relig people predomated. ” There were uns wh the system rerved for homosexuals. ” Such was the se of gay men —whom Guevara referred to as a “sexual perverts.
CUBA WANTS YOU TO THK IT’S A GAY PARADISE. IT’S NOT.
” Both Guevara and Castro nsired homosexualy a bourgeois nce. ” Acrdg to Álvaro Vargas Llosa, homosexuals, Jehova’s Wns, Ao-Cuban prits, and others who were believed to have mted a crime agast revolutnary morals, were forced to work the mps to rrect their “anti-social behavr.
Today, 50 years after his ath, is important to remember Ernto Che Guevara as the person he was: a homophobic, racist, mass murrer wh tent to e any means to achieve his self-clared superr society.
HAVANA (Rters) - Fil Castro took the blame for a wave of homophobia lnched by his revolutnary ernment the 1960s, but said happened bee he was distracted by other problems, an terview published on Tuday a Mexin Cuban lear Fil Castro speaks at Havana's Jose Marti airport after the arrival of Cuban medil ntgent "Moto Menz" om Bolivia, Augt 17, 2010. The former Cuban print told La Jornada the persecutn of gays, who were round up at the time as supposed unterrevolutnari and placed forced labor mps, was a “great jtice” that arose om the island’s history of discrimatn agast said he was not prejudiced agast gays, but “if anyone is rponsible (for the persecutn), ’s me. “In those moments I was not able to al wh that matter (of homosexuals).
MORE THAN 100 GAY MEN 'SENT TO PRISON MPS' CHECHNYA
Official persecutn of gays ntued to the 1970s before homosexual acts were crimalized 1979. Above the entrance, the rabow flag, the ternatnal symbol of gay pri, fluttered the warm Caribbean breeze.