Cuba - First transgender couple married in Cuba

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CNA

Havana, Cuba

Capitolo Nacional (1929)

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Cuba - Cuba cancels annual Conga Against Homophobia parade

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NBC News

Havana, Cuba

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Cuba - Cuba begins distributing PrEP through pilot program

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Washington Blade

Havana, Cuba

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Cuba - Cuba asked for public feedback on a new constitution. Now it’s deciding which suggestions to include

Mimi Whitefield
Miami Herald

Havana, Cuba

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LGBT Cubans seek asylum in the Netherlands

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Washington Blade

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Cuba holds first ever transgender Mass

Erin Rook
LGBTQ Nation

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Republican Lawmaker With Transgender Son Slams White House for Reversing Protections

Carmen Sesin
NBC

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New film offers a moving look at the LGBT revolution in conservative Cuba

Esther Cepeda
Corpus Christi Caller-Times

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Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolutionary And Dictator, Dead At 90

Dan Avery
newnownext

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ezs note: On the one hand, he was simply the product of a bygone age.  On the other hand... gawd, what a dick.  He did reform a bit in his later years, though.

HRC Members Meet with Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen to #turnOUT the Vote

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ezs note:  Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is one of those brave Republicans who is standing by her transgender son unabashedly in the halls of Congress.  Naturally, you have to look at her whole record, warts and all (who doesn't have them?)  but as far as her transgender record goes, she would put some Democrats to shame.

Once A Prisoner In Cuba, A Transgender Cuban Vows To Never Return

Nadege Green
WGCU

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Gay rights activists in Cuba to hold symbolic mass same-sex wedding

Fred Lambert
UPI

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Photographer captures gorgeous side-by-side portraits of transgender people in Cuba

Andrea Romano
mashable.com

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Cuba’s Gay Rights Evolution

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See me as my true self: Powerful photos capture transgender men and women as they undergo sex changes amid fierce discrimination in Cuba (UK)

Annabel Fenwick Elliott
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Cuba’s gay and transgendered population in the open

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Cuba Elects First Transgender Person to Public Office - Camille Beredjick - http://voices.yahoo.com

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Rainbows for Cuba! (www.thedailyactivist.com)

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Cuba transgender wedding shows shifting attitudes (thejournal [Ireland])

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Transgender woman's wedding stirs controversy in Cuba (ontopmag)

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