MIAMI, United States. – The call of the National Center for Sex Education (Cenesex) to hold virtual seminars on “gender policies in the emancipatory perspective of the socialist transition in Cuba”, under the title “From Pride to Moncada”, has provoked angry reactions on social networks, where has been described as “disrespectful”.
The seminars begin this Tuesday, June 28, International LGBTIQ+ Pride Day, with the presentation “The progressive conquest of sexual rights in the cultural changes of the Cuban Revolution”, by Mariela Castro Espín, director of Cenesex and daughter of dictator Raúl Castro Ruiz.
According to that institution, the seminars, which will last until July 21, have the supposed objective of “socializing the learning of the Cuban Revolution in the education of sexuality and LGBTIQ+ rights.”
“This is the biggest disrespect I’ve seen in my life with the LGBTQ+ community in Cubano longer hiding in his political agenda [del régimen cubano]”, I consider Facebook user Julio Herrera Pérez.
Cuban journalist José Raúl Gallego answered to the Cenesex call, on Facebook, and said that it was “nonsense” and “nonsense”.
“You have to have a very hard face to speak like that in the country of the UMAPs, where historical responsibility has not even been determined or compensation for the victims, where people continue to be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation and where they are taking a plebiscite Your rights. You are frauds who no longer know what to do to whitewash the dictatorship and continue sucking euros and dollars from international organizations”, she sentenced.
For her part, Facebook user Adelth Bonne Gamboa modified the title of the seminars and I call them “From the Sierra Maestra to the[s] UMAP”, to refer to the repression against homosexual and non-heteronormative people unleashed by the regime in the 60s and 70s of the last century.
In another post, Bonne Gamboa qualified the Cenesex initiative as “hypocritical” for trying to “make it appear that the dictatorship has been in favor of LGBTQ+ Rights.”
“Now they intend to unite the day of LGBTQ+ pride with the July 26 Movement, which when they came to power in that fateful January of 1959, one of the first things they did was to concentrate the majority of the people in a kind of forced labor camp (UMAP). of the members of the LGBT community at the time,” recalled the Facebook user.
In the same publication, she denounced the imprisonment of Brenda Díaz, a trans woman who “is imprisoned for wanting to be free” and who has been “completely stripped of her gender identity by a dictatorship that wants to show the world as inclusive and friendly.” with the community.”
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