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HAVANA -- The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro said during a
rousing
gay rights march Saturday that her father advocated eliminating sexual
discrimination, and reiterated her own hope the country would soon
legalize
same sex marriage
Mariela Castro, a noted gay rights advocate and head of Cuba's National
Center for Sex Education, also repeated her praise for U.S. President
Barack
Obama's public remarks in favor of same sex marriage, saying the
American
leader's words "have great value because of the influence they might
have"
on others.
Still, she said Obama needed to back his words with action. While the
U.S.
president voiced support for same sex marriage, there were no plans in
the U
.S. to get behind federal legislation to mandate states to recognize
such
unions.
Castro's comments came during a colorful march by 400 advocates through
the
sweltering streets of the capital. The event is linked to the
International
Day Against Homophobia on May 17. Participants, including transvestites
and
transgender people, sang and danced in a conga line.
Castro has predicted for years that Cuba's parliament was on the verge
of
legalizing gay marriage, but it has yet to happen. She said she hoped
legislators would finally follow through when they next meet in July.
Castro said her father had voiced support for the measure privately
several
times, and indicated he was working behind the scenes in support of a
reform
of the island's family law.
"It is surely part of his tactics and strategy; it is his style," she
said.
"I am not going to pressure him to say things publically, because I am
more
interested in concrete results."
In the early years after Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, homosexuality
was
considered highly suspect, along with other "alternative" forms of
expression.
Many gays were fired from government jobs, jailed, sent to work camps or
left for exile. Fidel Castro later apologized for the discrimination,
saying
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: HAVANA -- The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro said during a
: rousing
: gay rights march Saturday that her father advocated eliminating sexual
: discrimination, and reiterated her own hope the country would soon
: legalize
: same sex marriage
: Mariela Castro, a noted gay rights advocate and head of Cuba's National
: Center for Sex Education, also repeated her praise for U.S. President
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