“Gay Pride” Celebrated in Cuba with Symbolic “Wedding”

HAVANA TIMES — Cuban activists held a symbolic “religious marriage” at “Gay Pride” day in Havana on Saturday, after a colorful parade led by sexologist Mariela Castro, daughter of President Raul Castro, reported dpa.

More than a thousand people participated in this year’s march, held for the eighth time this year, demanding work spaces “without homophobia or transphobia”.

Topping off the parade held the musical rhythm of a traditional Cuban “conga” this year organizers planned a ceremony in which interested heterosexual or homosexual couples could consecrate their “marriage” before Protestant religious authorities.

Around 20 activists symbolically gave the “yes” in the event supported by the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) led by Mariela Castro.

“We call them ‘holy unions,” said Reverend Roger LaRade who officiated several ‘marriages’ in the Cuba Pavilion center in the central Havana neighborhood of Vedado. LaRade is archbishop of the Eucharistic Catholic Church of Canada, which is considered itself Catholic even though they are not recognized by the Vatican.

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