But it's there.'Ĭuba, which sent gays to correctional labor camps in the early years after its 1959 leftist revolution, made considerable advances in LGBT rights in the 2000s and 2010s, despite the widespread persistence of machismo. 'It took a long time and there was no transparency in its interminable process of nearly 15 years. 'The blueprint for the family code is everything one could have hoped for,' said Maykel Gonzalez Vivero, director of Tremenda Nota, a digital magazine that focuses on women, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community and the Black community. In 2018 the government decided to withdraw an amendment to Cuba's new constitution that would have opened the door to same-sex unions after campaigning by evangelical churches. The government says it wants to build rather than force acceptance of change. They say the government should not have stipulated a referendum on what are fundamental human rights.
