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.
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.
ARE YOU GAY? CHE GUEVARA WOULD HAVE SENT YOU TO A CONCENTRATN CAMP
"In 1979, homosexualy was crimalised and, more recently, there have been efforts to legalise same-sex unns. 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. 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.
FIL CASTRO TAK BLAME FOR 1960S GAY PERSECUTN
” 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). Official persecutn of gays ntued to the 1970s before homosexual acts were crimalized 1979.
CUBA'S FIRST GAY HOTEL REOPENS AS HUMAN RIGHTS TERRATE
Above the entrance, the rabow flag, the ternatnal symbol of gay pri, fluttered the warm Caribbean breeze. While guts enjoyed the five-star service by the pool or a walk along the priste sands, Cuba has not always been so welg to the gay muny. In the early part of munist lear Fil Castro's le, homosexual men and women were sent to work mps for supposed "re-tn".
Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The hotel is part of a strategy by the thori to attract ep-pocketed gay touristsA jot venture between Muthu Hotels and Gavta, Cuba's ary-n tourism pany, the Rabow Hotel was placed on a US ernment list of sanctned enti Cuba even before was gurated 2019. Amid such harsh treatment, some Cuban gay rights' activists say the Rabow Hotel is an attempt by the state to mask s poor human rights rerd.
We chat ont of the Hotel Telegrafo, due to be unveiled soon as Cuba's send LGBTQ hotel as the state doubl down on s pursu of the gay tourist dollar. If the ernment's ph towards gay tourism n help reigne bs, says Mr Lopez, he is all for . " The guratn of gay hotels as the ernment is about to put a change to the untry's "fay " before the people.
CUBA WANTS YOU TO THK IT’S A GAY PARADISE. IT’S NOT.
Yet, he says, even the gay rights stggle Cuba has been -opted by the state.
Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Cuba has seen a huge drop tourism bee of the panmicIn 2015, symbolic same-sex weddgs were held at Havana's ernment-sanctned gay pri march.
MORE THAN 100 GAY MEN 'SENT TO PRISON MPS' CHECHNYA
But an pennt gay pri march a few years later was quickly shut down.
They jt hope all visors - whether gay or straight - make themselv aware of the wir human rights ntext of their trip. Wh a populatn of jt unr 75, 000 and a reputatn for well-prerved lonial archecture, not cisg, a gay bar seems an improbable niche-filler.
As of 1979, beg gay is no longer a crime Cuba, although unr Article 303a of the untry’s Penal Co, “publicly manifted” homosexualy remas illegal, as do “persistently botherg others wh homosexual amoro advanc.