in Strawberry... they appeared not only as protagonists, almost always victims of an unjust and intolerant society, but also as carriers of liberal values, including tolerance and mutual understanding.
It is striking that the Cuban cinema on homosexual themes does not include motion pictures that can be considered explicitly erotic. Nevertheless, as a way for categorizing the performance, almost all films include scenes with high homosexual erotic charge. Out of this list is precisely Strawberry and Chocolate, in which the erotic scene is heterosexual. To get insights in this kind of films, it is important to judge the imprint left by the Festival of New Latin American Cinema. In all its thirty or more editions, homosexual themes have been present as plots or subplots, in the latter case as stories on male inmates. The 29th edition featured Wilde( 1997), directed by British director Brian Gilbert and starring Stephen Fry and
Jude Law in the roles of lovers Oscar Wilde and Sir Alfred Douglas, respectively. This movie mobilized the Havanan homosexual community, which uses to be a major audience for the entire event. In the long and provocative list of films during the last five years with predominant homosexual themes, we can find in prominent places Fatima or the Fraternity ´ s Park( 2015), Viva( 2015), Casa Grande( 2014), Wedding Dress( 2014), Green Green( 2012), Fable( 2011) and Chamaco( 2010). Ready to ride the wave were filmmakers like the Irish Paddy Breatheach and the Cuban Jorge Perugorría( Viva) along with his fellow countrymen Juan Carlos Cremata( Chamaco), Enrique Pineda Barnet( Green...), as well as high-
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