Cuba’s Gay Rights Evolution

nytimes ^ | Dec. 21, 2014 | THE EDITORIAL BOARD

[PROCON]

In Cuba, street marches have historically been government-orchestrated events or dissident protests that are swiftly crushed by the authorities. So it was downright startling when, in May 2007, Fidel Castro’s niece sauntered down the street with a small army of drag queens waving gay pride flags.

Long before the Obama administration announced a dramatic shift in Cuba policy on Wednesday, asserting that isolating the island had failed, a couple of Western governments with close ties to the United States saw the potential to help gay Cubans, even though it meant working with a prominent member of the Castro family. Havana’s first observance of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia marked the beginning of a remarkable evolution of gay rights in the most populous country in the Caribbean, a region where hostile attitudes toward sexual minorities remain the norm.

[PROCON]

Oh, now I see. Obama wasn't going for the Cuban vote, he was going for the Gay Cuban vote; and now the hundreds of millions of Gay Americans will rise up in support of this heroic breakthrough.

Brilliant! </sarc>

[Maelstorm]

The worst part for the left this is enough reason to normalize relations. Liking or disliking fags is their primary litmus test.

[miss marmelstein]

Years ago, the Cuban cinematographer, Nestor Almendros (Truffaut's main guy), made an excellent documentary about the inhumane treatment of gays in Cuba. Not pretty. Why are we opening our doors to these miserable thugs?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Seems to be one of Zero’s qualifying issues. If you want to be a friend of the U.S.G. (United States of Gomorrah) go homo.

[Terry L Smith]

Oh now -I- see!
mom jeans, queer in charge, michael in tow, is just gushing on how he/she/it managed to save Cuban queers, while the whole of America is going up in flames that he is too blind to see.

[Dqban22]

Spanish Oscar winner cinematographer, Nestor Almendros, produced a documental, “IMPROPER CONDUCT” that is an indictment of Castro’s brutal percussion of homosexuals and political and artistic dissidents.("IMPROPER CONDUCT,' EXILES INDICT CASTRO REGIME”By VINCENT CANBY, NYT April 11, 1984)

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/11/movies/improper-conduct-exiles-indict-castro-regime.html

Castro interned homosexuals and practicing Catholic leaders in forced labor concentration camps, the "Cuban gulags"

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[madprof98]

You knew there had to be something in this for Obama.

[Does so]

Castro interned homosexuals and practicing Catholic leaders in forced labor concentration camps, the "Cuban gulags".

Years ago, Castro's Lesbian sister left Cuba for the US. If done today, only a gay "marriage" to any American would suffice for American citizenship.

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