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| Castro Daughter Calls for Dance against Homophobia |
| 2013-05-11 |
| [An Nahar] Cuban leader Compañero Raul Castro ...Fidel's little brother... 's daughter, a sexologist and supporter of gay rights, has urged Cubans to join a traditional "conga" dance against homophobia taking place in Havana on Saturday. Give those words a roll on your tongue. Say what you will about the Castro brothers, they didn't spend their productive years obsessed with sex. The world might be a better place if they had, but they didn't. "We are the heirs of a strongly patriarchal Spanish culture, very homophobic and very discriminating," said Mariela Castro, whose father succeeded her uncle and revolutionary leader Fidel Castro as the island's president in 2006. "It is incumbent upon us to cut all ties with everything that happened before we were born." "It's time these prejudices were eliminated," she said in comments published in state newspaper Granma. "In the name of the Revolution, stand homophobes against a wall and shoot them!" The dance, to the beat of drums and trumpets, is part of a national "day against homophobia" -- actually 10 days worth of events that started Wednesday and runs through May 18. When is it my turn to bore you with the gooey details of my sex life? |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Is it odd that the press is paying attention to the pronouncements of a mere powerless offspring of the current head guy? It's not as if she's a powerful member of the government or heir apparent or anything, as far as I am aware... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-05-11 17:02 |
| #2 Dance, What good will it do now. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-05-11 10:45 |
| #1 This adds new meaning to the term "Pink Police State." |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-05-11 09:04 |