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AFRO-MÁS: A Cuban
LGBTI´S own voice
José Hugo Fernandez
Cuban Writer and Journalist
Cuban residing in the United States

T

he Fraternity Park in Havana
has become a very special
meeting place for gays of African descent, while white gays usually
meet in El Café, a more chic spot on the
premises of the National Theatre in El
Vedado neighborhood, quite close to the
Revolution Square. Both groups voluntarily come to the ghetto as a remedy to
feel somehow a little farther away from
to homophobia surrounding them, but it

also has established two categories
within their own exclusion, because of
the social distances imposed by racial
and class prejudices. Certainly these are
not the only places where our fellow
LGBTI people go to socialize, but none
of the other spots illustrates so explicitly
the summum of the historical aberrations that regrows like a badly healed
cancer in the cell tissue of Cuban society.

AfroMás: First Forum “The Cuban LGBTI with their own voice”

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