Dec 15, 2007Quickie Link: Cuba Regrets 'Past Error' of Homophobia
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.
