Cargando...Color and joy, militancy and commitment, conquests and hopes continue to be the essence of the Cuban conga against homophobia and transphobia that once again swept an important artery of Havana’s Vedado neighborhood last Saturday.
This is one of the most popular activities that characterize the 18 years that the National Center for Sex Education (Cenesex, in Spanish) has been organizing to celebrate May 17, the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.
This march is not an empty party. It aims to highlight the progress made by gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, as well as the prejudice and discrimination we still have to overcome in this country.
For 18 years, Cuban society has witnessed and participated in this educational, cultural and political initiative that has sought to discuss and guarantee equal rights for a previously neglected sector of the population, which, thanks to this seed, is now fully recognized in the Constitution, the Family Code and other important legal norms.
But LGBTIQ+ people have also grown a lot in this process in which they have always been protagonists. For almost two decades, their demands have been joined by other just and urgent causes, such as the fight for the return of the Five Anti-Terrorist Heroes imprisoned in the United States, or the constant struggle against the blockade suffered by the Cuban people, of which they are a part; or right now, the denunciation of the Israeli genocide against Palestine and the worrying resurgence of world fascism, with serious setbacks also in the policies in favor of sexual diversity in many nations, even those that boasted greater development.
Because at the end of the day, that’s what this fight is all about: no more homophobia, no more transphobia, no more injustice that diminishes us as full human beings.
