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Romney slams U.S. visa for Castro daughter visit
WASHINGTON — Republican Mitt Romney said he was “greatly disturbed” that President Barack Obama’s administration had granted a visitor’s visa to the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro. Mariela Castro, a sexologist who supports gay rights, was granted the visa to attend the annual conference of the Latin American Studies…
Cuba’s Raul Castro backs gay rights says daughter
Cuban President Raul Castro backs greater gay rights and endingdiscrimination against homosexuals, his daughter Mariela, a famed sexologist, said Saturday during a colorful gay rights march in Havana. “He has done some advocacy work, speaking of the need to make progress in terms of rights based on sexual orientation and gender identity,” Mariela Castro told…
First ‘gay’ wedding celebrated in Cuba
HAVANA — Braving drizzling rain and people’s prejudices, a Cuban man and transgender woman tied the knot here in what has been described as the first “gay marriage” on the Communist-ruled island. Ignacio Estrada and Wendy Iriepa were married in a civil ceremony in Havana’s Palace of Weddings on the…
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