Report From Cuba: Living Out, Proud, Loud (At Last)
by Byron Motley
EDGE Contributor
Friday Jun 3, 2011
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=features&sc3=&id=120268 (http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=features&sc3=&id=120268)
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Out-and-Proud Transsexual
Cuba's first male-to-female transsexual is Mavi Suzell, a stout yet handsome woman who seems very comfortable with her identity and her place in gay Cuban history. The 50-year-old Suzell said that her operation on May 22, 1988, not only changed her sexual identity but her life as well.
"Before my procedure, I suffered a lot emotionally," declares Suzell. "Now I am fully accepted as I was not before. I have the admiration of people who before didn't understand what I was all about."