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Commentary
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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Commentary
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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To the end, Cuban leader Fidel Castro remained a polarizing figure
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.
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Castro’s daughter sponsors blessing of Cuban same-sex couples
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.
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Mariela Castro breaks tradition in fight for greater LGBT, HIV protections
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.