Cuba To Host LGBT Conference This Week

Interesting news out of Cuba today. There is an international LGBT conference being hosted there this week.

More than 400 advocates from across the world will travel to Cuba next week to attend the first international LGBT conference that will take place in the Communist country.  

The sixth International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association for Latin America and the Caribbean (ILGALAC) Regional Conference will take place in the beach resort of Varadero. A number of parties and other events are scheduled to take place in nearby Havana, the Cuban capital, during the gathering.  

Mariela Castro Espín, daughter of Cuban President Raúl Castro who is the director of Cuba’s National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX,) is president of the local committee that organized the ILGALAC conference.

It should be noted that Cuba has national legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, something the United States does not have. Additionally, Fidel Castro personally apologized for the island-nation's previous persecution of gays and lesbians by the communist regime.

Hat/tip to Joe.My.God