to the cry of “Socialism yes, homophobia no” This community celebrated the approval in September of the Family Code, an advanced legislation that has allowed the legal union of at least 745 same-sex couples throughout the country, according to official figures.
“It was a debt that the revolutionary process owed” to the Cuban LGBT community, he told AFP Ana Clara Leon 21-year-old Sociology student, who paraded with a rainbow flag tied around her waist and wearing a purple scarf around her neck.
“I am gay and God loves me” read a sign carried by a group of men, surrounded by transgender people moving their hips to the percussion of drums.
The demonstration traveled a few blocks in the central Vedado neighborhood, to concentrate on a party inside a recreational center near the sea.
The walk, supervised by police and state security agents, was led by Mariela Castro, daughter of the revolutionary leader Raúl Castro and promoter of the Family Code. As well as by Lis Cuesta, wife of President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
This new norm also allows legal recognition of several fathers and mothers, in addition to biological ones, as well as non-profit surrogacy, while adding other rights that favor children, the elderly and the disabled
The legalization of equal marriage has been a sensitive issue in a society still marked by machismo that was exacerbated in the 1960s and 1970s, when the government ostracized many homosexual or sent them to militarized farm labor camps.
Yoilan Balón, national vice coordinator of the Transcuba network, also celebrated this achievement. “It was something that all people gay They were waiting, that they wanted to consummate their relationship,” he said.
“It is the conga of pride, we Cubans are a lot of parties, conga, fun and that is how we can express our diversity,” said Diana Peña, 31, and responsible for the participation of young people in Transcuba.
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