'Gay' marriage in Cuba for Castro's birthday

By Isabel Sanchez (AFP) – 21 hours ago

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jq8QrSllpYAb9Kb1gnHsWY8OFcYw?docId=CNG.29c5d51a77cebabaf63edb0b88b38288.191

HAVANA — Ignacio is a homosexual dissident who fights for gay rights in Cuba. Wendy is a transsexual woman. Their plans to marry on Saturday, longtime leader Fidel Castro's birthday, have stirred controversy.

Same-sex marriage is illegal in Cuba, which in the past has showed little tolerance for homosexuality and operated camps for several years to stamp out "counterrevolutionary" values.

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12 August 2011 Last updated at 23:47 ET

Cuba gay man and transgender woman to marry

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14514240

A Cuban man and transgender woman are set to marry in what is being seen as the country's first "gay wedding".

Same sex marriage is illegal in Cuba, but bride Wendy Iriepa is legally a woman after undergoing one of the first state sanctioned sex changes in 2007.

Her fiance, Ignacio Estrada, is a noted dissident and gay rights activist in Cuba and is also HIV positive.

Though this is progress, I'm confused as to why a gay man would marry a woman.  He should at least say he's bisexual.  If not, it kind of ruins the love story.