Cuba

Religious groups helped stop a similar vote in 2018. This time, they weren’t successful.

Reaction to the beautiful hotel has been positive. So much so that the owners plan to open a sister venue.

Critics say that Buttigieg disparaged the civil rights era of the 1960s — but is that actually what he said?

Although the moderators at last night’s debate were horrible, we still got some important insights into the race ahead.

Around the time Cuba was forcibly quarantining gay men in camps, Sanders was praising the country for its revolutionary spirit “far deeper and more profound than I understood it to be.”

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.

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

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

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

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

Cuba’s proposed new constitution defines marriage as “the consensual union of two people, regardless of gender.”

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

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

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.

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

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.

Love 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.

Nearly 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 17.

HAVANA — 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, gave the thumbs-down to a workers’ rights bill that she felt didn’t go far enough to prevent discrimination against people with HIV or with unconventional gender identities.

HAVANA, 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 Federation.