Cuba
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Jay-Z is right: Donald Trump can be a ‘great thing’ for America
Sunday, April 15, 2018By bringing racism to the fore, Trump has given us an opportunity to talk about it... and hopefully cleanse it. -
Cuba holds first ever transgender Mass
Sunday, May 7, 2017The Mass was part of a conference on transsexuality and theology, organized by the Cuban branch of the LGBTQ-affirming Metropolitan Community Church. -
Semper (and suffer) Fidel: Artists conflicted about Castro
Sunday, December 4, 2016While 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. -
‘Moonlight’ and ‘Her Story’ among winners at Gotham Independent Film Awards
Tuesday, November 29, 2016Barry Jenkins’s acclaimed drama about a young gay black man at three stages of his life swept the top prizes. -
Now that Fidel Castro is dead, will LGBT Cubans gain more civil rights?
Monday, November 28, 2016Fidel Castro maintained a steel grip, jailing dissidents and gays, controlling freedom of travel and expression and declaring activities outside his control to be illegal. -
To the end, Cuban leader Fidel Castro remained a polarizing figure
Saturday, November 26, 2016Love him or hate him, there was no denying that Fidel Castro played an outsize role on the world stage for much of the 20th century. -
Castro’s daughter sponsors blessing of Cuban same-sex couples
Saturday, May 9, 2015Nearly two dozen gay couples held hands or embraced, some crying, as Protestant clergymen from the U.S. and Canada blessed them as part of official ceremonies leading up to the Global Day against Homophobia on May… -
Mariela Castro breaks tradition in fight for greater LGBT, HIV protections
Tuesday, August 19, 2014HAVANA -- Yet another revolutionary tradition has been broken in Cuba: A lawmaker voted "no" in parliament. And it wasn't just any lawmaker. Mariela Castro, the daughter of President Raul Castro and niece of Fidel Castro,… -
Leader of Russian anti-gay extremists who target LGBT youth arrested in Cuba
Saturday, January 18, 2014HAVANA, Cuba -- Cuban law enforcement officials on Friday arrested and detained the leader of a Russian anti-gay extremist group, according to a source in the Russian Federal Security Services, the Investigation Committee of the Russian… -
Leader of anti-gay Russian extremist group flees to Cuba
Friday, January 10, 2014HAVANA -- The founder of the anti-gay Russian extremist group “Occupy Pedophilia” has fled Ukraine, where he was hiding to avoid arrest by Russian authorities for a series of criminal homophobic assaults against LGBTQ people, and…
