Cuba transgender wedding shows shifting attitudes
newsday.comPublished: August 14, 2011 12:14 AM
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.newsday.com/news/world/cuba-transgender-wedding-shows-shifting-attitudes-1.3095798HAVANA - A gay man and a woman whose sex-change operation was paid for by the state tied the knot Saturday in a first-of-its-kind wedding for Cuba, a sign of how much the country's attitude toward sexuality has changed since gays and transsexuals suffered persecution in the early years after the revolution.
Mariela Castro said she was not invited to the wedding and accused rivals in the gay community of taking democracy-building money from Washington.
"U.S. government funds exist here to create LGBT (lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual) groups that oppose the position of the National Sex Education Center," she alleged.
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