Re: [Marxism] Cuba: Transvestites and Crossdressers Key Workers Against AIDS

["gary.maclennan@xxxxxxxxx" <gary.maclennan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> (This posting is dedicated to John O'Brien and all who still
> think that the world portrayed in the film BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
> has any similarity to the world of LGBT people in Cuba TODAY.
>
> Hi Walter,

I recently saw BFN on cable.  I am very critical of how it does not
contextualise the situation in Cuba.  Thus there is no acknowledgment at all
that the revolution was under seige.  The US tried to drown the Cuban
revolution in blood and failed.

Nevertheless BFN is a document of the oppression of gays.

Would you not agree that the struggles of the gay community have helped
change the situation in Cuba and that their emancipation is at least in part
owing to their struggle against oppression.?

Moreover would you not admit that there is a possibility that BFN has played
a part in that process?

warm regards

Gary
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