Cuba looking to expand LGBT rights
Filed by: Waymon Hudson
March 29, 2008 9:17 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/03/cuba_looking_to_expand_lgbt_rights.phpMariela Castro, daughter of Cuba's new president Raul Castro, has been pushing what could be the most inclusive LGBT rights law in Latin America.
The bill before the Cuban National Assembly would grant same-sex couples legal status and give them inheritance rights, as well as cover the cost of gender-reassignment surgery and permit transgender people, regardless of whether they have surgery, to change their gender on their identity cards.
Mariela is head of the government-funded National Center for Sex Education and says she is trying to change people's attitudes towards minority groups in the community.
