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She has proposed that when the Cuban Constitution of the Republic is next revised, the category of “sexual orientation” be added. Castro Espín said homosexual Cubans are protected, but “when something like that is made explicit, it is official recognition that there is a need to avoid any type of discrimination, like racism or sexism.” Such a legal measure, she pressed, would make this protection even more evident. And, she added, it’s important to protect against discrimination, not just in public institutions “but also in the space of the family, because it is often there that a homosexual is first insulted or rejected.” No Cuban of any sex has to marry in order to have economic support, a job, a home, health care or other rights that are guaranteed to every person. Castro Espín pointed out, though, that although homosexuals live within the law in consensual relationships, “gay marriage is not recognized, so you have many issues such as inheritance that aren’t fully resolved. We need changes in the family code itself related to these and other questions, including domestic violence. CENESEX has now presented two bills in Parliament before the education and children’s commissions that have to do with gender,” she noted, “and these have been well received.” Unofficial same-sex marriages have taken place on the island. For example, four local young males ranging in ages from 17 to 22 held a double same-sex ceremony outdoors, in front of loved ones and neighbors, in the working-class suburb of San Miguel del Padrón, southeast of Havana, in 2001. (Berkowitiz, Cabral) Castro Espín summed up, “By the 1970s, reforms to the penal code excluded the classification of homosexuals as criminals (because of their sexual orientation); any word that discriminated against homosexuals was modified. “However,” she stressed, “that is not enough because I think our laws should better reflect the respect that homosexuals deserve. Greater and more professional work is needed at the micro-social level, because what this is about is trying to change perceptions, modifying the social imagination.” (Garcia) Cuba’s CENESEX leads the way on sexual rights 83
Leslie Feinberg, shortly after initiating the Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five Campaign, presents Cuban Ambassador Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz with copies of her books. Teresa Gutierrez 84 Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba
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LESLIE FEINBERG Rainbow Solidarity
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Cuba brought science, not scapegoat
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1970s Cold War gay-bashers condemn
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Anti-gay, anti-trans Inquisition in
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Colonial period in Cuba Bodies shac
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1950s Havana: Imperialist sexploita
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Unweaving the lies Why many Cuban g
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Attempts to supplant that new, scie
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