Cuba

Cuba just started giving PrEP away for free to those who need it

In 2015, Cuba became the first country in the world to halt the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mothers to their children. They're doing more to fight HIV than America is now.

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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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