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Cuban civil society fights to be heard
Paulo A Paranagua
Guardian Weekly, Tuesday 30 August 2011 14.05 BST

Groups of gays and lawyers struggle for legal recognition separate from state-supported organisations


Cuban director of the National Center for Sexual Education (Cenesex), Mariela Castro, leads a march in Havana against homophobia.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/cuba-gay-transgender-rights-challenge

Leannes Imbert Acosta, 34, has been trying since May to obtain legal recognition for Cuba's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Observatory. But in so doing she has encroached on the prerogatives of the National Sexual Education Centre (Cenesex) set up by Mariela Castro, Raul's daughter.