Cuba Libre`: Cuba, Castro, and Gay Rights

Lesbiatopia  Mar 30 08

I have long had this affinity for things Cuban that started when I was back in college; I had an opportunity to attend a deaf education conference in Havana in 1996 and got special permission to travel there to attend. I found Cuba, its people and its culture quite fascinating and subsequently I have been a Cubaphile ever since.While I’ve never had much love for Fidel Castro or his revolution, as Fidel’s policies on human rights were simply atrocious in most cases, being much too Stalinist and repressive for my tastes. But there is one notable exception to those policies that I do find far advance to those here in The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave and that is the Cuban Governments policies in the area of gay rights. Full story...

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