Mariela Castro’s March: Cuba’s LGBT Revolutn Explor a Natn’s Thorny History Wh Gay Rights | Vogue

Contents:

• FIL CASTRO TAK BLAME FOR PERSECUTN OF CUBAN GAYS
• CASTRO ADMS 'JTICE' FOR GAYS AND LBIANS DURG REVOLUTN
• FIL CASTRO’S HORRIFIC RERD ON GAY RIGHTS
• MARIELA CASTRO WS GAY-RIGHTS ADVOCY AWARD
• CASTRO'S NIECE CASTS RARE 'NO' VOTE IN PARLIAMENT, CG GAY RIGHTS
• IS THE CASTRO GETTG LS GAY?
• CUBA’S GAY RIGHTS EVOLUTN
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
• FIL CASTRO PUT GAY MEN LABOR CAMPS. HIS NIECE MARIELA IS LEADG CUBA’S LGBTQ REVOLUTN.

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.

CASTRO ADMS 'JTICE' FOR GAYS AND LBIANS DURG REVOLUTN

Embargo agast Cuba enuraged his untry to be creative Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Former Cuban lear Fil Castro said he acknowledg the persecutn of gays and lbians durg the Revolutn his untry, acrdg to a newspaper terview published Tuday. Some have argued that another explanatn for Havana’s homosexual polici is that Cuba’s ntued pennce on the Soviet Unn for tra and assistance led to a Stalist-style tolerance of homosexualy throughout the earlier part of the .

24 Gay rights activists, both Cuba and abroad, have acced the Cuban thori of applyg the crime of “pre-crimal dangerons” unfairly to homosexuals, and ignorg plats of those who have been beaten or fired om their jobs bee of their sexual orientatn.

FIL CASTRO’S HORRIFIC RERD ON GAY RIGHTS

25 Other gay rights activists have cricized Mariela Castro for her nsistency and hypocrisy when to gay rights, argug that gay rights activists ntue to be imprisoned, beaten, or simply disappear while she provis ltle more than lip service to the issue. ) 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.

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. "But… I'm jt lookg around at my own iends and who are also gay and lbian and they're leavg the neighborhood, " The Castro's roots wh the gay rights movement began after World War II, when workg class fai moved out and gay men moved .

MARIELA CASTRO WS GAY-RIGHTS ADVOCY AWARD

SEE ALSO: US rtor gay and transgenr health protectns reversal of Tmp-era policy District 8 Supervisor Rafael Menlman says 's important to strike a balance between matag the Castro's cultural inty while welg non-gays and straight fai. On May 21, 1979, thoands of members of San Francis’s predomantly gay Castro District muny took to the streets to prott the lenient sentence received by Dan Whe for the murrs of lol polician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk and Mayor Gee Mosne.

CASTRO'S NIECE CASTS RARE 'NO' VOTE IN PARLIAMENT, CG GAY RIGHTS

The rultg vlence affected San Francis’s LGBT muny for s to Milk rose to promence as a gay rights activist and beme the first openly gay person elected to a public office the state of California when he was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977.

IS THE CASTRO GETTG LS GAY?

JAFFARI ALLEN: What has happened is a tremendo difference terms of visibily of LGBT people the prs, on televisn, to remd other Cubans that they are part of the natn and part of In 2010 Fil Castro apologized for his regime's treatment of homosexuals. Mariela Castro says she hop chang attu will soon translate to ncrete laws, like gay marriage (Foreign language spoken)GARSD: Castro, a straight mother of three, says she felt gay rights were a bld spot Cuba's revolutn, so she cid to take actn.

And I fd pretty sad that this is now what we're nsirg Back at the panel, gay activist Ada Bello says the picture is more Whether this is somethg that is beg done to make the ernment look better, or bee they have fact evolved, the realy is that 's She says, whatever happens next, 's too late to turn back the clock on gay rights Cuba. If you’ve read Before Night Falls, the tobgraphy of gay Cuban wrer Realdo Arenas, or seen Julian Schnabel’s wonrful film adaptatn starrg Javier Barm, you have some notn of the dismal treatment of LGBT people Cuba durg the long reign of Fil, the munist revolutnary turned dictator, died Friday at age 90, eight years after cedg learship of his untry to his younger brother, Raúl.

CUBA’S GAY RIGHTS EVOLUTN

After takg power, we’re remd, the lear treated homosexualy as an afont to the hypermascule revolutnary ial, gog so far as to tern gay Cubans forced labor mps, and later, durg the AIDS crisis, to sequter HIV-posive cizens sanariums that were tantamount to 2010, Castro fally acknowledged an terview wh a Mexin newspaper that the programs reprented “a great jtice. ” Later she briefly acknowledg her ground-breakg dissentg vote agast a labor bill that failed to aquately addrs gay rights (Cuba’s parliament generally vot unanimoly), then clar that her work remds her of John Lennon’s “All You Need Is Love, ” which she sgs thickly accented English.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

“It's gone om beg a gay village to beg a tourist statn for people around the world who want to e here and experience a ltle b of the gay, ” says Don Romburg, an LGBTQ historian who moved to the Castro the 1990s after llege. “To have a place San Francis, the world, where gay people n e together as a muny and feel like they tly belong and that there's no real sense of stigma, that's what ma the Castro very special for me as a young guy my 20s, ” Romburg says.

NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS

So was downright startlg when, May 2007, Fil Castro’s niece sntered down the street wh a small army of drag queens wavg gay pri before the Obama admistratn announced a dramatic shift Cuba policy on Wednday, assertg that isolatg the island had failed, a uple of Wtern ernments wh close ti to the Uned Stat saw the potential to help gay Cubans, even though meant workg wh a proment member of the Castro fay. Havana’s first observance of the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia marked the begng of a remarkable evolutn of gay rights the most populo untry the Caribbean, a regn where hostile attus toward sexual mori rema the norm.

That said, the vast majory of viss rema trouble-ee, even for visors who equent the cy’s ls-than-secret gay bar and club bt hotels MoswThe historic exterr of the Hotel Metropol, facg the ternatnally-celebrated Bolshoi Theatre and close to many of the other ma thgs to do Mosw, is nothg pared to s sumptuo terrs.

FIL CASTRO PUT GAY MEN LABOR CAMPS. HIS NIECE MARIELA IS LEADG CUBA’S LGBTQ REVOLUTN.

Mosw's cy and district urts are unison that gay pri paras Mosw will be banned until at least 2112 -- 100 years om Rights First is already out wh s nmnatn:Human Rights First nmns the Tverskoy District Court lg to uphold the cisn of Mosw thori to ban gay pri paras the cy until May 2112. Rsia -- strategilly important, a key member of the UN P-5, a untry Ameri mt work wh on challeng rangg om Iran to Syria to global oil and energy issu, wh a steady and mostly sensible foreign mister -- is creasgly beg a farce among natns, s serns dissolvg wh idtic gtur like this gay ban. Otherwise, the siwalks and the streets leadg off to the downtown were nearly serted; there were no spectators to watch this hor, s outlandish stum, march to the summer— was 1978—timat of the gay populatn of San Francis ranged om seventy-five thoand to a hundred and fifty thoand.