Cuba to hold a mass gay wedding to promote gay rights

Cuba to hold a mass gay wedding to promote gay rights


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Activists will be led by daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro
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Payton Guion
New York
Wednesday 06 May 2015

Gay marriage remains illegal in Cuba, but activists – led by the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro – are holding a mass gay wedding this weekend in Havana to promote gay rights.

The wedding will be held alongside Cuba’s annual gay-pride parade, the BBC reported. At the moment it can only be symbolic, but Mariela Castro says she hopes the mass wedding will lead to change in the future.

“We can't do a wedding, but we wanted to have a very modest celebration of love with some religious leaders,” Ms Castro told the BBC. “In the future we'll see what more we can do.”

The president’s daughter – and granddaughter of former president Fidel Castro – is the chief of the National Sex Education Centre and a member of the Cuban National Assembly, and she has played a large role in promoting gay rights in the communist country.

More:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cuba-to-hold-a-mass-gay-wedding-to-promote-gay-rights-10229569.html

(Correction: Mariela Castro is the niece, not the granddaughter of Fidel Castro. Her father, Raul, and Fidel are brothers.)