Fil Castro’s Horrific Rerd on Gay Rights

Contents:

• FIL CASTRO TAK BLAME FOR PERSECUTN OF CUBAN GAYS
• FIL CASTRO’S HORRIFIC RERD ON GAY RIGHTS
• THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT
• SAN FRANCIS CASTRO GAY BAR AND RTRANT HARVEY'S CLOS AFTER 27 YEARS
• TOP 5 GAY CLUBS & BARS THE CASTRO (SAN FRANCIS)GAY CLUBS & BARS THE CASTRO
• THIS IS HOW FIL CASTRO PERSECUTED GAY PEOPLE
• RAúL CASTRO GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 89 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY
• IS THE CASTRO GETTG LS GAY?

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. "In 1979, homosexualy was crimalised and, more recently, there have been efforts to legalise same-sex unns.

FIL CASTRO’S HORRIFIC RERD ON GAY RIGHTS

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.

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.

THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT

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.

SAN FRANCIS CASTRO GAY BAR AND RTRANT HARVEY'S CLOS AFTER 27 YEARS

Though the Cuban regime closed down the UMAPs the late 1960s, ntued to reprs gay men as iologilly subversive elements. One of the untry’s most distguished wrers, Realdo Arenas, reunted the prison experience he and untls other gay men endured his memoir Before Night Falls. ” Gays prised a signifint portn of the 125, 000 Cubans (“worms, ” Fil Castro’s words) permted to leave the island for the Uned Stat as part of the 1980 Mariel Boatlift.

(The 1984 documentary Improper Conduct, which tells the stori of gay and straight Marielos, remas one of the starkt dictments of the Castro regime. ) When the Human Immunoficiency Vis h the island’s gay muny the mid-1980s, the regime’s rponse was to quarante all HIV-posive people sanariums, referred to as “pretty prisons” by the founr of the World Health Organizatn’s Global Program for AIDS.

TOP 5 GAY CLUBS & BARS THE CASTRO (SAN FRANCIS)GAY CLUBS & BARS THE CASTRO

No doubt attuned to the way which gay rights has bee central to the agenda of a global left creasgly sensive to the claims of inty polics, the Cuban regime recent years has tried to fashn self as beg the vanguard of homosexual liberatn. But no matter how much life for gay Cubans might have improved om the days of forced labor mps, ’s all occurrg wh the ntext of a totalarian society whose cizens nnot vote, are nied basic eedoms like the right to speak or prott eely, and nnot form anizatns pennt of the ernment.

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As you will walk through the neighborhood, you will notice bronze siwalk plaqu: this walk of fame lled the Rabow Honor Walk honors Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer dividuals who have ma a signifint difference to society. Walkg around the Castro, you'll enunter many lorful characters, and get a real feel for the special ambiance San Francis's gay area offers.

THIS IS HOW FIL CASTRO PERSECUTED GAY PEOPLE

Beg San Francis's gay district, The Castro is full of exclively gay shops, such as Do Your Mother Know (4141 18th Street), and lots of queer clothg stor. Once you’ve regaed your strength, make way to some of the bt gay bars and clubs San Francis, where there's somethg for everyone. Fally, make your way to Dolor Park, where gays, hippi, and tourists enjoy the breathtakg view of San Francis.

RAúL CASTRO GAY RUMORS?ONLE POLL SHOWS 89 PERCENT DON’T BELIEVE HE’S GAY

Before then, opened 1974 as a gay bar and rtrant lled the Elephant Walk, which Milk praised as “a place where the gay muny uld meet, feel safe and secure while at the same time be visible to the whole world, ” acrdg to the Harvey’s webse.

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IS THE CASTRO GETTG LS GAY?

We vised lol rtrants the area a uple of liked the Rabow Honor Walk which featur bronze, siwalk plaqu that honor Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgen personali like Spanish poet Feri Garcia Lor, Freddie Mercury, Keh Harg, Amerin dis star Sylvter, Osr Wil, Virgia Wolf, Ameri poet and wrer Jam Baldw, Tennsee Williams, Frida Khalo, Allen Gsberg and many area is a ltle grad, terrated and n down wh many homels people the is worth a brief, our opn, The Castro is much more tertg than the overrated touristic se “Pated Ladi”. Don’t e on here slammg gays for fdg llege guys attractive when there are tons of straight men slobberg over high schoolers. You’re beg low-key homophobic and you type Dead Cl Fr, sex is natural and fe between nsentg & legal participants.

6 plac sorted by traveler favorWhat travelers are saygAn historic venue, the first gay bar SF that had wdows so folks uld look om the street. Operated by Harvey Milk om 1972 to 1978, the store beme the center of the neighborhood's growg gay muny. Nurse and early AIDS activist Bobbi Campbell ed the ont wdow of this pharmacy to post a flyer 1981 warng the muny of "Gay Cancer”—bee neher the lol nor natnal ernment would sound the alarm—showg photos of lns ed by Kaposi sara (the rare ncer was found to be a rult of HIV's toll on the immune system).

The baret ran for a om 1988 to 1998 as a platform for ic voic, drag shows, and activist baret the gay muny.