Cuba’s LGBTQ group celebrates same-sex marriage with delight conga

AFP- Round 200 Cubans marched in Havana on Saturday to the rhythm of conga, a well-liked dance, protesting in opposition to homophobia and transphobia, and celebrating the legalization of same-sex marriage.

Chanting “Socialism sure, homophobia no”, demonstrators swayed their hips and beat rhythmically on drums as they cheered the ‘Household Code’, handed final September.

The code permits surrogate pregnancies so long as no cash adjustments fingers and legally acknowledges same-sex adoptions, in addition to a number of fathers or moms along with the organic mother and father.

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It additionally defines marriage because the union between two individuals, fairly than that of a person and a lady, whereas boosting the rights of youngsters, the aged, and the disabled.

“It was a debt the revolutionary course of owed” to Cuba’s LGBTQ group, Ana Clara Leon, a scholar parading with a rainbow flag tied round her waist, instructed AFP.

Yoilan Balon, a coordinator for the Transcuba community selling trans rights, stated: “It was one thing that each one homosexual individuals had been ready for, who needed to consummate their couple relationship.”

Diana Pena, who organizes the community’s youth outreach, stated the conga delight parade suited Cuba’s spirit.

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“It’s the conga of delight, we Cubans are very a lot about partying, conga, enjoyable and this manner we will categorical our variety.”

The march was led by Mariela Castro, daughter of considered one of Cuba’s revolutionary leaders Raul Castro and a supporter of the Household Code, alongside Lis Cuesta, spouse of President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Cuba’s machismo tradition was exacerbated within the Sixties and Nineteen Seventies, when the federal government ostracized the LGBTQ group, sending many to militarized agricultural labor camps.