ADDED ON: 08/19/2021
Gay former Cuba lawmaker banned from leaving country
HAVANA — A gay man who is a former member of Cuba’s National Assembly has been banned from leaving the country. Luis Ángel Adán Roble on Aug. 14 tweeted a picture of…
Cuba
ADDED ON: 05/19/2021
Giant Rainbow Flags Fly In Havana
Cuba draped its health ministry with a giant rainbow flag on Monday to mark International Day against Homophobia, in a key year for LGBT+ rights as the Caribbean country decides on a…
ADDED ON: 05/12/2021
Family code bill to be introduced in Cuban Parliament in July
The National Center for Sexual Education on May 4 during a press conference in which it unveiled the program for the 14th annual International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia events in…
ADDED ON: 04/21/2021
Raúl Castro speaks about LGBTQ rights during Communist Party congress
aúl Castro in his report to the eighth congress of Cuba’s Communist Party (PCC) that began last Friday and will end on April 19 in Havana referred to the rights of LGBTI+…
ADDED ON: 01/05/2021
Cuba: Church opens its doors to LGBTQI+ people
While most churches in Germany, the US and other Western countries now welcome gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersexual people, that is an exception in Cuba. And that exception is called Iglesia…
ADDED ON: 10/13/2020
Cubans share their coming out stories
National Coming Out Day, as it is called in the U.S., is celebrated on Oct. 11 as an event that promotes the visibility of LGBTI+ people and calls attention to silence; one…
ADDED ON: 06/18/2020
Lesbian Couple From Cuba Fights For Life Together in U.S.
Yanelkys Moreno Agramonte, 36, and Dayana Rodríguez González, 31, had never been apart in the nearly five years since they began dating. Their lives were one until Nov. 3, 2019, when they…
ADDED ON: 05/25/2020
Cuba’s LGBTQ community is living a week of celebrations and controversy
This past Monday the LGBTI+ community celebrated the first anniversary of the march of May 11, 2019, when several hundred people demonstrated in Havana. This protest followed the cancellation of an official…
ADDED ON: 09/17/2019
Cuban Police Detain LGBT Activist in Havana
Cuban police on Monday detained an independent LGBTI activist in Havana. Leandro Rodríguez García, director of the Cuban Foundation for LGBTI Rights, an independent advocacy group, told the Washington Blade in a…
ADDED ON: 08/22/2019
How American Evangelicals Helped Stop Same-Sex Marriage in Cuba
Earlier this year, Cuban psychologist Dachelys Valdés Moreno and her American-born wife, Hope, welcomed their baby boy into the world. Although they live in Havana, they opted to give birth—as well as,…
ADDED ON: 06/15/2019
AP Explains: The rocky rise of LGBT rights in Latin America
Despite a dark past, today many LGBT citizens in Latin America are enjoying the right to marry, choose their gender identity and adopt children. But while laws in several of the region’s…
ADDED ON: 05/19/2019
Cuban lawmaker: Activists ‘paid’ to organize unsanctioned LGBTI march
A Cuban lawmaker on Saturday suggested independent activists were “paid” to organize an unsanctioned LGBTI march that took place in Havana last week. “It’s not only religious groups, but also these so-called…
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