IPSNews.net – By Dalia Acosta
Havana (IPS) – Nearly 50 years after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, sexual minorities are at last beginning to feel that their voice is being heard and that they can finally take their place in the movement towards a more just and inclusive society.
“I always wanted to be a part of all this. I can’t remember how many times I told my mother: I’m going to make it work; I’m going to make the revolution,” Mónica, a young Cuban woman who held a symbolic wedding with her partner Elizabeth in December, in the inner courtyard of the governmental National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX), told IPS.