{"id":198363,"date":"2019-05-07T17:09:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T21:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=198363"},"modified":"2019-05-08T04:01:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T08:01:29","slug":"cuban-government-suspends-conga-against-homophobia-and-transphobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuban-government-suspends-conga-against-homophobia-and-transphobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban government suspends Conga against Homophobia and Transphobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few days before the Cuban Conga against Homophobia and Transphobia was held in Camag\u00fcey (May 11) and in Havana (May 17), a 12-year tradition, the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), which is headed by Cuban MP Mariela Castro, daughter of former President Raul Castro, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/cenesex\/ajuste-al-programa-de-las-jornadas-cubanas-contra-la-homofobia-y-la-transfobia-e\/2318336911563706\/?__tn__=H-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">issued a note<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> announcing that these demonstrations will not be held this year on the instructions of the Ministry of Public Health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The causes for this decision, as they are presented, are: &#8220;the current situation the country is experiencing&#8221; and &#8220;certain circumstances that do not help its (the Conga\u2019s) successful development.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CENESEX adds that &#8220;the new tensions in the international and regional context directly and indirectly affect our country and have tangible and intangible impacts on the normal development of our daily life and on the implementation of the Cuban State\u2019s policies.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the first time this event has been suspended. It had become a tradition since it was held for the first time 11 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-198363 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuban-government-suspends-conga-against-homophobia-and-transphobia\/attachment\/x-jornada-homofobia_otmaro-rodriguez-3-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/X-jornada-homofobia_otmaro-rodriguez-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/X-jornada-homofobia_otmaro-rodriguez-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/X-jornada-homofobia_otmaro-rodriguez-3-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" 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https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conga-lgbt-4-1-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuban-government-suspends-conga-against-homophobia-and-transphobia\/attachment\/conga-lgbt-3-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conga-lgbt-3-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conga-lgbt-3-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conga-lgbt-3-1-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuban-government-suspends-conga-against-homophobia-and-transphobia\/attachment\/conga-lgbt-2-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conga-lgbt-2-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conga-lgbt-2-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conga-lgbt-2-1-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuban-government-suspends-conga-against-homophobia-and-transphobia\/attachment\/10-2-13\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/10-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/10-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/10-2-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also a novelty that a kind of exceptional state, caused by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/tag\/crisis-en-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">crisis in Venezuela<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the new U.S. pressures against Cuba has been ambiguously invoked, although these causes are not mentioned explicitly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While this is happening, the International Tourism Fair is being inaugurated today in Havana, and the 13th Havana Biennial is being held for a month until May 12 under the slogan &#8220;The Construction of the Possible.&#8221; Also on May Day, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuba-marches-for-may-day-and-in-rejection-of-u-s-sanctions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the traditional parade was held<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Workers&#8217; Day, which involved a large mobilization and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=buyu6uLcoCw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deployment of logistics and resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its note CENESEX does not rule out that next year the Conga will resume, which is the annual event involving the biggest participation and visibility for the fight against Homophobia and Transphobia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The doctor and activist for LGBTIQ rights and protection against HIV <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alberto.roqueguerra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alberto Roque<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rejected in his Facebook account the decision and denounced a background that recalls the recent process of discussion of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/tag\/reforma-constitucional-en-cuba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new Constitution<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where different sectors of society were divided, and that finally influenced the elimination of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba\/asamblea-nacional-del-articulo-68-al-82-no-hay-retroceso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">article 68<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that directly opened the doors to same-sex marriage in Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The fundamentalist evangelical groups in Cuba are getting a new reward from the Cuban government with the suspension of the Conga against Homophobia,&#8221; wrote Roque.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, journalist and LGBTIQ activist Francisco Rodr\u00edguez Cruz <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/paquitoeldecuba.com\/2019\/05\/07\/la-conga-va-por-dentro-o-nadie-nos-quita-lo-bailado-y-por-bailar\/?fbclid=IwAR32yvzd--9dY_XlV_45NX8vcQKjStc2INVhXt8tgToXbKjULSP-i1ZUS8M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wrote on his blog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that this decision &#8220;goes beyond&#8221; the Organizing Committee of the Commemoration Days, and accepts that it is &#8220;a fact that we can no longer remedy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodr\u00edguez gives a dialectical explanation by saying that &#8220;we never hoped that a process of cultural transformation as profound as the dismantling of homophobic and transphobic prejudices so rooted in our society would lineally take place without contradictions and even stagnation or setbacks, as this adjustment to the program could seem to many people.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this analysis, Rodr\u00edguez Cruz provides a &#8220;cultural&#8221; \u2015homophobic\u2015 explanation to the decision, an aspect that the CENESEX note does not recognize absolutely, according to which it is only a matter of situation and circumstance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The journalist who has his Paquito el de Cuba blog, considers, however, the suspension of the Conga as a &#8220;circumstantial blunder&#8221; and adds that he &#8220;is sure that nothing and nobody can put us back in the closet, nor do I want to nor can I believe that someone wants that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_198365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198365\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conga-lgbt-13-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198365\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conga-lgbt-13-1.jpg\" alt=\"The director of the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), Mariela Castro, and Chilean actress Daniela Vega headed the Cuban Conga Against Homophobia in Havana in 2018. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto\/EFE.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conga-lgbt-13-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conga-lgbt-13-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conga-lgbt-13-1-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/conga-lgbt-13-1-750x496.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The director of the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), Mariela Castro, and Chilean actress Daniela Vega headed the Cuban Conga Against Homophobia in Havana in 2018. Photo: Alejandro Ernesto\/EFE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2018 the Conga had been moved from the area of \u200b\u200bLa Rampa and the surrounding areas of the Cuba Pavilion, very full of offices, hotels and tourist spaces, to a more residential area, on L\u00ednea Street, also in Vedado.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On that occasion it became a demonstration where not only the LGTBIQ community participated, but also many neighbors, heterosexual persons, on the street or from balconies and portals<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Before there were prejudices to talk about these issues. Eleven years ago we started to work on the Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia and that helped a lot to create dialogue scenarios among the population,&#8221; Mariela Castro commented in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note from CENESEX states that &#8220;given the current situation&#8221; and due to &#8220;certain circumstances,&#8221; following indications from the Ministry of Public Health the anti-homophobic demonstration is suspended this year, both in Havana and in 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