from Luke Smalley’s ‘Exercise at Home’
I spent most of yesterday exchanging salacious flirtatious texts with my Cuban ex. Hot. Mui calienté. What is it about Cuban boys that really gets me excited? It’s more than just this rich, Buena Vista Social Club-esque cultural background. It also relates to this naughty verboten quality of their Communist Castro government, right?
According to Fidel Castro’s neice, Cuba may be on the verge of recognizing same-sex marriages:
The Cuban Communist Party is considering granting legal recognition to same-sex unions, as health officials prepare to authorise sex-change operations, the director of the Cenesex sex education centre in Cuba has said.
The proposed change to Cuban family law would put members of same-sex unions on a par with heterosexual couples, psychologist Mariela Castro, who is the daughter of acting President Raul Castro and niece of Fidel, told EFE.
“We are receiving suggestions and debating adjusting the proposal so it is more flexible and has more chance of being approved,” Mariela Castro told EFE.
The principal needs of Cuban homosexuals “are related to the right to their recognition as consensual couples, as non-matrimonial couples, but that authorities recognise their property and inheritance rights in those non-legalized unions,” she said.
“That is their principal interest. They are not interested in marriage, they are not interested in adoption, because in Cuba there are hardly any children to adopt.”
She added that besides legal recognition, gays, lesbians and transsexuals in Cuba want respect: “Let no one feel the right to humiliate them, nor harm them, nor exclude or reject them, that we strengthen within the family this ethic of accepting everyone and of not being discriminated against for sexual orientation.”
I love Cubans. And Al Gore:
