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Title: Cuba Regrets ‘Past Error’ of Homophobia
Post by: LostInTime on December 15, 2007, 09:40:51 AM
Cuba Regrets 'Past Error' of Homophobia
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=91&ItemID=14507
by Gerardo Arreola

But prejudice is still deep-rooted in society and in the government: "There still are institutions that take the right to decide if a lesbian, gay or transsexual person can or not occupy a post." In the educational sector "we have achieved very little": schools turn down transsexuals who wish to dress according to their real sex...