
{"id":50461,"date":"2015-07-02T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T17:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oncubamagazine.com\/?p=50461"},"modified":"2015-07-02T13:03:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T17:03:23","slug":"same-sex-marriage-in-cuba-an-absent-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/same-sex-marriage-in-cuba-an-absent-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Same-Sex Marriage in Cuba: An Absent Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 4:20 in the afternoon in Sagua la Grande and, like every Saturday, Adrian is waiting for the bus headed for Santa Clara. He tells me that Yunier will board the bus at the stop called \u201cSietecito.\u201d They will look for each other in the crowd, kiss each other on the face and share the small seat.<\/p>\n<p>An hour later, when the aging Giron-brand bus arrives at its destination, Adrian and Yunier will be different people. They will laugh as they please and put away all caution. They will have sex in the shower of a hostel, eat together at a restaurant (where no one cares whether they hold hands or not). They will ask each other about study and work, about how the home repairs are coming along and how the sick grandpa is doing. At around 10 at night, they\u2019ll head over to the El Mejunje cultural center to forget about the world for a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>They will forget, Adrian tells me, that Yunier\u2019s parents (his in-laws) don\u2019t want to see him anywhere near their son and even hang up on him when he calls the house. He can\u2019t even be with his partner in his own house, because his father warned him he would have trouble if he took any \u201cfags\u201d there. To forget and to be together as a couple\u2026this is what they want this afternoon, and what they\u2019ve wanted for three and a half years now.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s June 27, however, and Adrian claims to be happier. \u201cThey legalized gay marriages in the United States yesterday and, believe me, they\u2019re the ones who set the rules around the world. You\u2019ll see how they legalize it here in no time,\u201d he says confidently, with the credulousness of someone who doesn\u2019t quite believe his own claims.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50293\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mejunje-s\u00e1bado-por-la-noche.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50293 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mejunje-s\u00e1bado-por-la-noche.jpg\" alt=\"Saturday night at the Menunje, a place where diversity and inclusion is part of the language. Foto: EFE\" width=\"550\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mejunje-s\u00e1bado-por-la-noche.jpg 550w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mejunje-s\u00e1bado-por-la-noche-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saturday night at the Menunje, a place where diversity and inclusion is part of the language. Foto: EFE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Saturday Night at El Mejunje<\/h3>\n<p>For more than 20 years, the city of Santa Clara has been welcoming hundreds of people from different municipalities and nearby provinces (such as Cienfuegos and Sancti Spiritus) who seek refuge in the gay mecca that El Mejunje has become.<\/p>\n<p>That is how Heydi, a girl from Sancti Spiritus who studies at the Marta Abreu Central University of Las Villas and one day dreams of marrying a woman and raising children with her, also sees the establishment. Right now, she does not see this as something within reach, despite the work in defense of sexual diversity being done by Mariela Castro Espin, head of the National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX) and daughter of President Raul Castro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are dinosaurs up there who don\u2019t get it and put obstacles in their way,\u201d the young woman affirms.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no shortage of debates and tensions (some of them visible) \u201cup there,\u201d such as those that arose during the first National Conference of the Communist Party and the debate surrounding the new Labor Code. There have also been discussions that fall on deaf ears, stemming from the reticence that stills exists with respect to the issue and which has been less visible, because it\u2019s become politically incorrect to be homophobic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany who once regarded homosexuals as the scum of the earth are now opposed to opening up completely to the issue. They are the ones who say that our society isn\u2019t ready,\u201d notes Heydi, who is very close to groups that call for the institutional acknowledgment of equal rights for the LGBT community.<\/p>\n<p>El Mejunje has been one of Cuba\u2019s most tolerant places for years, in large measure thanks to the work of a man who didn\u2019t wait for \u201cthe right time,\u201d a man ahead of his time who also had to confront conservative postures to defend his cause. Ramon Silverio runs a place where prohibiting things is prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Cuba, people didn\u2019t wait around for sexists to all agree and accept gender equality before fully incorporating women into society. We also didn\u2019t wait for racism to disappear to acknowledge that all men are equal before the law. So, we don\u2019t have to wait for our society to regard the union of two people of the same sex as something totally normal to make it legal. On the contrary, laws should mold people, set up norms, eliminate injustice, sweep away prejudice and guarantee the rights of people with a different sexual orientation,\u201d Silverio argues.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50294\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50294\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ram\u00f3n-Silverio-act\u00faa-en-el-Mejunje.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50294 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ram\u00f3n-Silverio-act\u00faa-en-el-Mejunje.jpg\" alt=\"Ramon Silverio also plays different characters in performances at El Mejunje. Photo: Carolina Vilches.\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ram\u00f3n-Silverio-act\u00faa-en-el-Mejunje.jpg 600w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ram\u00f3n-Silverio-act\u00faa-en-el-Mejunje-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramon Silverio also plays different characters in performances at El Mejunje. Photo: Carolina Vilches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More than 15 years ago, several sectors were calling for a modification of the Family Code in Cuba that would at least acknowledge the consensual union between two people of the same sex, as a necessary first step towards legalizing their marriage. But, why limit this progressive change to the Family Code?<\/p>\n<p>According to the legal experts approached, Article 2 of the current Family Code establishes that \u201cmarriage is the voluntary union between a man and a woman who are legally capable of this action, for the purposes of living together.\u201d Since the constitution defines marriage in similar terms, one cannot change the Family Code without also modifying the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>But the proposal for a new Family Code hasn\u2019t even reached the legislature and the issue isn\u2019t on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Cuba, discrimination against homosexuals ceased being explicit and now works through negation, through deafness or blindness,\u201d Joel, a law student at the University of Santa Clara, claims. \u201cThat is perfectly feasible in a country with the largest parliament in the continent but where representatives tend to unanimously agree with what a handful of people decide. Among those deciders there are people who continue to see homosexuals as weird creatures,\u201d said the young man who considers himself bisexual.<\/p>\n<h3>Adela the Representative<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32439\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Adela-la-enfermera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32439 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Adela-la-enfermera.jpg\" alt=\"Adela Hernandez, nurse, the only transgender person ever elected municipal representative in Cuba. Photo: SentidoG.\" width=\"512\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Adela-la-enfermera.jpg 512w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Adela-la-enfermera-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adela Hernandez, nurse, the only transgender person ever elected municipal representative in Cuba. Photo: SentidoG.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The election of the first transsexual district representative made news more than two years ago. Adela, the first transgender person to occupy government office in the country, demonstrated that people were more ready to acknowledge her equality than government power structures.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat disheveled and straightforward, the nurse at the Caibarien hospital believes that Mariela Castro is in a difficult position. Being the president\u2019s daughter serves both to get people to listen to her and put obstacles in her way. That said, her work and that of CENESEX activists are responsible for the noticeable acceptance towards differences we\u2019ve seen in Cuban public opinion in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Teresa is 56 and says she could not tell her grandson that the union of two women is something normal. \u201cThat\u2019s deviant behavior and exposing minors to it could lead them to adopt similar behavior. Don\u2019t even talk about it! They\u2019ve already gone too far with the soaps,\u201d she concludes, somewhat worked up. Maria Teresa is not alone.<\/p>\n<p>That is why perhaps Adrian, from Sagua la Grande, is right, and, just as the exclusion of homosexuality from the list of WHO diseases in 1990 had global impact, the United States\u2019 same-sex marriage law will have profound repercussions in other parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Adrian and Yunier, on the other hand, doubt that the US Supreme Court decision will shift the balance for LGBT rights in Cuba. \u201cIt would have to be like a meteorite of civilization striking this Jurassic park,\u201d they jokingly say, sitting in the tight crowd watching the Roxana Rojo and other transvestite shows at the Menjunje.<\/p>\n<p>For them, the progressive Cuba of social achievements and the search for justice is being left behind in the area of sexual rights.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46944\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46944\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/161-755x4901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46944 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/161-755x4901.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Yailin Alfaro\" width=\"755\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/161-755x4901.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/161-755x4901-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Yailin Alfaro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 4:20 in the afternoon in Sagua la Grande and, like every Saturday, Adrian is waiting for the bus headed for Santa Clara. He tells me that Yunier will board the bus at the stop called \u201cSietecito.\u201d They will look for each other in the crowd, kiss each other on the face and share the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3216,"featured_media":46955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13930],"tags":[11542,11541],"ppma_author":[33849,11501],"class_list":["post-50461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technologies-of-communication-and-media","tag-gay","tag-lgtb"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Same-Sex Marriage in Cuba: An Absent Right | OnCubaNews English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/styles-trends\/technologies-of-communication-and-media\/same-sex-marriage-in-cuba-an-absent-right\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Same-Sex Marriage in Cuba: An Absent Right | OnCubaNews English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s 4:20 in the afternoon in Sagua la Grande and, like every Saturday, Adrian is waiting for the bus headed for Santa Clara. 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