Cuba

Cuba caves to backlash & removes marriage equality from constitution

Nondiscrimination protections for gender identity and sexual orientation remain in the draft.

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A judge shut down a frivolous ‘Christian flag’ lawsuit & gave the plaintiffs hell

The group complained that black, gay, and trans people could raise flags, but they couldn't raise a Christian flag on government property.

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Cuba may legalize marriage equality. That doesn’t mean it’s a gay paradise.

A historian warns that the country is using LGBTQ progress to pinkwash its iron grip on civil liberties.

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A Cuban revolution is coming and same-sex marriage is up for debate

Cuba's new constitution will finally, once and for all, define marriage as between "two individuals" instead of between a "man and a woman."

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Cuban legislature adds marriage equality into constitution

Cuba's proposed new constitution defines marriage as "the consensual union of two people, regardless of gender."

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Jay-Z is right: Donald Trump can be a ‘great thing’ for America

By bringing racism to the fore, Trump has given us an opportunity to talk about it... and hopefully cleanse it.

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Cuba holds first ever transgender Mass

The Mass was part of a conference on transsexuality and theology, organized by the Cuban branch of the LGBTQ-affirming Metropolitan Community Church.

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Semper (and suffer) Fidel: Artists conflicted about Castro

While visiting in the mid-1960s, gay poet Allen Ginsberg saw gays rounded up and sent to work camps. He quickly, and publicly, became a government critic.

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‘Moonlight’ and ‘Her Story’ among winners at Gotham Independent Film Awards

Barry Jenkins’s acclaimed drama about a young gay black man at three stages of his life swept the top prizes.

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Now that Fidel Castro is dead, will LGBT Cubans gain more civil rights?

Fidel Castro maintained a steel grip, jailing dissidents and gays, controlling freedom of travel and expression and declaring activities outside his control to be illegal.

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