In June 2008, the unprecedented took place when the Cuban government set out a law allowing free sex-change operations to qualifying Cuban citizens. Ten years later, Cuban gay characters show up in a soap opera called “La cara oculta de la luna” (The Dark Side of the Moon). In 1997, the Cuban Penal Code no longer applies to same-sex acts or homosexuality. In 1993, the release of the Oscar-nominated gay Cuban film Fresa & Choclate (the conflicted relationship between a committed Marxist student & a flamboyantly gay artist) raised a national debate about gay life in Cuba! Since the 1990s, Mariela Castro (daughter of our current president) became a campaigner of LGBT rights in Cuba & has been supporter of same-sex unions in Cuba & access to gender reassignment surgery. The 1988 version of the Penal Code of Cuba’s ARTICULO 303 was the last to apply specifically to homosexuality in Cuba. In 1979, the Cuban government partially decriminalized homosexuality in Cuba. In the 1960s and 70s, a few decades after the Revolution´s triumph, Cuban gay men were being sent to re-education camps to be supposedly rehabilitated. We believe that it is absolutely essential that you are aware of what to expect when you visit Cuba.īur first, some background history on gay Cuba:
