Daughter of Cuban President Expects Communist Party to Accept LGBT Rights
Source: Hispanically Speaking News
The sexologist daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro expects the upcoming assembly of the ruling Communist Party to help clear the way for a bill on transsexual and gay rights.
I believe the party conference will define an explicit policy of non-descrimination in matters of sexual orientation and gender identity and that, in turn, it will help dismantle the prejudices standing in the way of its approval, Mariela Castro, director of the National Sexual Education Center, said in an interview on the Web site CubaSi.
She made her comments when asked about the draft bill that seeks to modify the Cuban Family Code to legalize same-sex unions, among other rights it aims to secure.
For now, according to Mariela Castro, the bill is being studied by specialists of the Justice Ministry and experts of Cubas National Jurists Union with the idea of including it in the 2012 legislative schedule.
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This would probably be locked if I put it in LBN, but it's definitely interesting (and positive) news that deserves to be put somewhere.