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Police round up 30 homosexuals

Sandokan

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The acclaimed documentary "Improper Coduct" by Cuban exiles Nestor Almendros, a highly respected cinematographer, and Orlando Jiménez Leal effectively depicts the widespread and systematic oppression and persecution of those who didn't fit Castro's image of ‘macho’. The film remains a powerful antidote to the overly “rose-colored vision many political radicals have” of revolutionary Cuba.
 
The Hollywood and liberal elites in places such as New York and Washington have championed the rights of gays and want to ban groups such as the Boy Scouts, but when it comes to monsters such as Fidel Castro, they are silent.

Gay life after the Cuban revolution has been a horrible nightmare of repression, persecution, massive raids, incarceration, concentration camps and death. Gay people in Cuba today do not live, just barely survive. This I know because of family and friends still living there.
 
Unfortunately Cubans still seems to suffer under a ridiculous macho culture that is luckily declining in the West. Raids like the one described is simply revolting; no government should ever usurp the power to interfere with who adults choose to be with. Many societies has actively fought homophobia and granted homosexuals full citizenship without any damage happening to society, in contrast these societies has benefited from letting a large minority take part in life on en even scale with anyone else. I hope for the Cubans that they will too see such a change.
 
''The film remains a powerful antidote to the overly “rose-colored vision many political radicals have” of revolutionary Cuba. ''

Yeah, I think there might be films and books like that, about every torture regime, if only people would read and watch them, to balance their political views about thise countries.
 
The nightmare for gays and lesbians in Cuba, despite the well-orchestrated Castro propaganda, which includes tours of gay life in his "paradise", is hardly over.

Many naïve gays and lesbians, as well as members of the U.S. media, fall prey to these deceptive tours and they return praising the open gay life on the island. I marvel at their "observations." It reminds me of the many American tourists and reporters who visited Hitler’s Germany and failed to see the horrible reality of the Nazis.
 
Castro’s draconian anti-homosexual policies cohere with his enslavement of the Cuban population. These perpetrations share a totalitarian underpinning that expropriates self-ownership and bars basic human choice (where one can live, whom one can love, etc.). A regime that reduces human beings to chattel is hardly loath to forbid particular affection.
 

What influence would those people have over Cuban laws? I've never understood this idea that just because you don't protest in the street over every bad situation everywhere in the world that you're somehow a hypocrite. News Flash: Americans focus on things happening in America.
 
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Sandokan said:
The Hollywood and liberal elites in places such as New York and Washington have championed the rights of gays and want to ban groups such as the Boy Scouts, but when it comes to monsters such as Fidel Castro, they are silent.
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I've never heard of someone wanting to ban the Boy Scouts, but I don't think that they should be govt. funded since they're basically a religious organization.

Well go figure on that. Communism FTW.
 
Are you part of the liberal elite and the reason you remained silence? If you focus in "things happening in America", why are you interested in this thread?
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I've never heard of someone wanting to ban the Boy Scouts, but I don't think that they should be govt. funded since they're basically a religious organization
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With regard to the ban, an atheist lost a battle to ban the Boy Scouts of America from recruiting in Portland Public Schools because the organization requires a belief in God. The court said it found "no basis for concluding that religious teaching or indoctrination is a substantial purpose or activity of the Boy Scouts." Non sense, the Boy Scout is a youth organization which the goal to train youth in responsible citizenship, character development, and self-reliance.

The release of "Before Night Falls," a brilliant film by artist/filmmaker Julian Schnabel, based on the life of the late Cuban exiled gay writer Reinaldo Arenas, there is a second chance to take a peek at the reality of gay survival in Castroland. This film, wonderfully acted by Spanish actor Javier Bardem, who was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Arenas, accurately displays the tortured and traumatic existence of Arenas.
 
This film, wonderfully acted by Spanish actor Javier Bardem...
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Yum! If Javi's in it, I'll watch it. :mrgreen:
 
Because of what Reinaldo Arenas the writer had to say about reality in Cuba, he was disregarded in the U.S. by the intellectual and academic community - very much dominated by the pro-Castro left. His books were virtually ignored, and in many instances left-leaning groups disrupted his lectures.
 
And the sad part is, they aren't likely to get political asylumn if they swim to Miami!

This country is just as homophobic as Cuba is!
 
If the gays and lesbians of America want to help their Cuban counterparts and put an end to their misery as well as to help themselves avoid falling into similar predicaments by being easy prey of a deceptive political system, they should learn more about the realities of their brothers and sisters trapped in Cuba. Advancing the truth about them will set them free.
 
“I thank the Cuban Foundation LGBT Reinaldo Arenas in memorial, for offering us a space where we have the opportunity to express ourselves.”
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Reinaldo Arenas committed suicide at 47 in Manhattan. Arenas was a homosexual who was 15 when Castro was received in triumph in Havana, in January 1959, and knew all the ins and outs of homosexual life from that of poor peasants to high-ranking aides of Castro protected by their positions. He was also a gifted writer. Frustrated from doesn’t having his novels published in his own country, he wound up in the El Morro prison for several years for having smuggled his manuscripts abroad, where they were published to considerable praise.
 
Arenas was able to get to the United States during the Mariel boatlift, and he said: Well said, amen.
 
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