[Marxism] Cub a regrets "past error" of official homophobia

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: The Gay Republic
Dec 15, 2007 Quickie Link: Cuba Regrets 'Past Error' of Homophobia  
http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2245&lead=1
 
 
By vanrozenheim 

 
(Cuba) - Cuba considers the official homophobia of the past decades ?an
error? but this period still needs discussing: ?what happened has to be
analysed,? says sexologist Mariela Castro Espín. The director of the
National Centre of Sex Education (Cenesex) announced at the start of last
year a legal initiative to recognise the rights of the transsexuals to
identity and to clinical attention, a proposal that has been reformulated
through discussion. The project, which still awaits legislative passage, has
incorporated among other points the rights of free sexual orientation? and
of adoption for same sex pairs, comparable to heterosexual unions. Mariela
is daughter of the stand-in President, Raúl Castro, and Vilma Espín, the
late defender of gender rights. 




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