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Judi Lynn

(160,644 posts) Thu Sep 20, 2018, 11:57 PM Sep 2018

Santa Clara: Che's city but also Cuba's gay haven

Santa Clara: Che's city but also Cuba's gay haven
21SEP2018

Jose Augustin Hernandez is a 53-year-old local government official in Cuba -- who is transgender, sports a flamboyant pink wig and goes by the name Adela.

Hernandez works in Caibarien, a town close to Santa Clara -- a city synonymous with revolutionary icon Che Guevara but also Cuba's most LGBT-friendly town.

"I'm more revolutionary than gay," says Hernandez, who has photos of both her boyfriend and the famous Argentine guerrilla on the wall behind her. "And look, no one is more gay than me, because I was born gay."

Sixty years ago, Santa Clara is where Guevara derailed one of US-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista's military trains during the guerrilla resistance, and the city adopted him as one of its own.

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Santa Clara: Che's city but also Cuba's gay haven (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2018 OP

Che and Castro were both homophobic GatoGordo Sep 2018 #1

GatoGordo

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1. Che and Castro were both homophobic

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Fri Sep 21, 2018, 10:54 AM

Sep 2018

Plenty of persecution of the gay community by Castro and Guevara during the Revolution. This was even acknowledged by Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick, who created the iconic portrait of Che.

And we know already Che's feelings about "indolent" Blacks (The Motorcycle Diaries)

“The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.”

Che have taken himself out of context?

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