Fidel Castro

President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced his support for “marriage between people without any restrictions” as the country prepares for a new constitution.

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

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

Kay Lahusen was the first photojournalist of the LGBTQ movement and she helped to document the earliest protests for homosexual rights.

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.

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.

In an interview last week with Mexican newspaper La Jornada, Fidel Castro accepted responsibility for Cuba’s persecution of gays and lesbians decades ago.