More Progress!!!!
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This is overwhelming!
So many positive changes have been happening in Cuba lately, under the new leadership of Raul Castro.
It's pretty unbelievable!
The latest is that…
The Cuban government is taking steps to combat homophobia and is even contemplating legalizing gay marriage.
Amazing!
It seems like just the other day that gays and lesbians in Cuba were being jailed and persecuted for their sexual orientation.
We knew our "sister" Raul would pull through for us!
Posted: May 17, 2008 at 5:45 pm
first!
hm…
So close to first
amazing
first.
yay. first
second bitches!!
First??? Last???
FIRST!
woop
any progress is progresss!!
1st bitches
yay!!
i'm so happy!
the world is finally changing
gay marriage is also legal in CA
hurrah!
first?
hmmm
first?
Perez, I love you and all but if you are such a gay rights activist for marriage whay aren't you married? Stop pushing it already!!!
1st!!!!
Thats good
For all you dumb asses that post just to say "first!" - do you even give a crap about Cuban politics or anything else that matters? Or do you just sit around all day for Perez to post something new so you can be "first?" Unbelievable the stupidity of America's youth….
maybe as someone w/ cuban family i am jaded but i wont be kissing raul castro's feet anytime soon. he IS related to fidel afterall
Cuba has a long, long way to go… they are really messed up.
i cant believe theres only 18 comments on this!!!
anyway i think this is great news…i just did my spanish class project on cuba so if find that pretty awesome
yay for raul
that's quite a shame. oh well, we're not all perfect
Re: angela – because he hasnt found the right guy duh! go for a straight person to marry too then.
AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEE i wanna suck raul-raul's carnal cigar
Uhhhh Perez, this is all great…computers and gay marriage….but what about the food rations… how about we tackle that before cell phones and electronics. what's the point of talking to your family via the internet if you can't even eat a decent meal.
Eggs
Milk.
that's all i'm saying
I bet his daughter is behind this. She is a big supporter of Gay/Lesbian/Transgender rights. Does this mean Fidel is dead? If not this will finally push him over.
THIS IS AMAZING
- Unfortunetly there is a lot of homophobia in the Caribbean.
What a big leap.
Wow.
That is great! Will you and everyone else be moving back there any time soon?
Cool…I have some guy gay friends who aren't completely out of the closet cuz they're from the islands and have been brought up in a homophobic household…Needless to say i'm pretty shocked that this is happenning(but glad of course).
Go Gays!
Goooo Cuba!!
Dirt poor and no food but YAY the gay's can get married.
Now if Cuba would bomb Jamaica they would be my heroes.
Perez… No one cares about Cuba exept you.
Re: Lindsay – There are NO hungry people in Cuba. Everyone has food. It might not be 5 star quality but it is a full belly for every cuban.
Re: WTF? – NO cuban is hungry, without a bed, or without state provided health care. It might not be 5 star quality but not a single cuban goes any day ever without food, a warm bed, or moderate medicine. Stop the pat robertson lies
I want you to eat my out while I am on my period Perez, and I want you to lick it all up and suck it all out REAL good!! I also want you to smash my gummy blood clots between your tongue and the roof of your mouth. I want you to press the blood clots on the back of your teeth until the ooze through your cracks. Please Perez, please.
FREE THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
equality is funfunfun
to poster #15, Angela: do you go around asking str8 people why they aren't married? just because someone isn't married doesn't mean they don't appreciate the right to maybe get married one day. we push for it, because we deserve the same rights everyone else does. think about your incredibly STUPID questions before you let them fly out of your fat mouth, bitch!
WAIT, WHY ISN'T THIS HAPPENING IN THE STATES????
WAIT, WHY ISN'T THIS HAPPENING IN THE STATES????
WAIT, WHY ISN'T THIS HAPPENING IN THE STATES????
WAIT, WHY ISN'T THIS HAPPENING IN THE STATES????
WAIT, WHY ISN'T THIS HAPPENING IN THE STATES????
WAIT, WHY ISN'T THIS HAPPENING IN THE STATES????
WAIT, WHY ISN'T THIS HAPPENING IN THE STATES????
WAIT, WHY ISN'T THIS HAPPENING IN THE STATES????
WAIT, WHY ISN'T THIS HAPPENING IN THE STATES????
Re: natamaxxx – "think about your incredibly STUPID questions before you let them fly out of your fat mouth, bitch!"
so classy…
Re: miles – It's nice to see people with such worldly views. We are all citizens of the world…brothers and sisters.
Re: Jimmyboyo – o pleasssse jimmybobo……and i guess You are cuban to know that??????????? and if you are you are not sucking up to the catros???? Riiiight the world is so ignorant!!!!! CUBA IS FULL OF POVERTY , HUNGER, AND YEAH THEY CAN BUY A COMPUTER NOW BUT IT WOULD COST THE EARNINGS OF AN ENTIRE YEAR TO DO THAT!!! VENEZUELA IS IN ON ITS WAY TO BECOME THAT AND IGNORANTS ALL OF YOU WHO THINK…CHAVEZ IS COOL CUZ HE HATES BUSH!! PLEASE HE IS EVEN WORSE there had been tragedies in the country where hundreds have died and chavez hasn't say anything….a fucking FARCS guy dies and the country is supposed to be in grief because he said so….wtf??????????????????????????????
THIS IS REALLY DISSAPOINTING NES WTF S RAUL THINKING FIDELL SHOULD SHOULD JUST DIE SO HE DOESENT HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS:(
"#32 - Mmm Hmm says – reply to this
Now if Cuba would bomb Jamaica they would be my heroes."
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ou are brainwashed by babylon, ain't your fault… been to jamaica nuff time to respect and know it is a great place. Many great jamaican ppl living in rural jamaica, surviving… you have to be very humble and respecful and EDUCATED to see that. I'd go to Jamaica WAY before i'd go to AmeriKKKa.
wow- just what an oppressed country needs to pull it from despair, oppressed married gays!
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Re: natamaxxx – If you would trade FREEDOM for a warm bed and free healthcare you don't deserve either.
Please. Cuba is just another one of those stupid ass Spanish countries where the dumbass White cubans think they are oh so great while the Brown Cubans are marginalized in society.
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MICHAEL MOORE WAS RIGHT ABOUT YOU BITCHES!!! YOU THINK YOUR ALL THAT WHEN IF FACT YOUR NOTHING!!!
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You come over here and nobody gives a shit that you White Cuban. YOU ARE STILL SPANISH ASSES AND YOU WILL ONLY END UP CLEANING PEOPLE'S HOUSES!!!!
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I"M WHITE, YOUR NOT!!!
Please bitch.
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You act like gay fuckin rights is the most pressing issue in the damn country. WHAT ABOUT RACISM!! WHAT ABOUT INCOME INEQUALITY!! You dumbass cunt. That's not progress. Who gives a fuck about the fags and dykes. When people can actually EAT and people are not oppressed because of their background THEN we will call it progress.
CUBA WILL SOON LOSE ITS FREE HEALTH CARE, ITS FREE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. THE COUNTRY WILL SELL OUT TO THE U.S. AND SOON EVERYTHING WILL BE OWNED BY AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS.
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Yea…REAL progress Perez…
Re: Lynne – which freedoms are you supposing i trade? the ones we share, or the ones others have, that i don't?
where on earth are you going with this comment? care to elaborate?
Oh, even Cuban government is more intelegent and liberal then american government. Americans are su fuckin ignorant, religious and stupid. We in Europe love gay people and they have right like everyone else
Re: Tuck – hey tuck, it's obvious that you have probably NEVER been to Cuba, so what makes you think you know WTF your talking about?
your white? so what? i'm cuban AND white, and probably better educated, more informed, more aware, more cultured, more articulate, and in all likelyhood better looking, and better hung.
your an ignorant, simple child who will probably be serving me my biggie fries with my coke.
Re: Just a question – Good question? Maybe it will become so great alot of their countrymen will want to go home. If you came to America for a better life and can now have one in your home country…go…support it! Glad you stopped by…good luck!
out of alllllll the positiv changes that need to occur in cuba perez, YOU FOCUS ON THE LEGALIZATION OF GAY MARRIAGE?!!! remember by focusing soley on one specific demographic of people, you exclude and place resentment upon them. The effort should be to give everyone of the country equal rights which includes those who are homosexual.
Re: Jimmyboyo – are u fucking stupid? apparently so.. just fyi the cuban people ARE hungry. its pretty bad when ur family gets to eat 1 chicken a week or u have to share 1 tube of toothpaste for the whole family. oh and about the health care? please.. don't get me started with that shit.. (and NO you DON'T know what's going on because you saw a certain documentary). there's so so many things about cuba i could tell you, but im not going to waste my time with you. i suggest you do some research and inform yourself before you make such ignorant comments.
hmm.. wonder why families with kids and elderly risk their lives to leave in a fucking raft and cross the atlantic ocean? must be real great over there right???
Fidel puede chupar mi pinga!
Aww! The home town of Yanice!
A very good thing. The Cuban government legalized same sex relationships years back and there's a soap opera with a gay couple. Didn't watch it all the way through, but considering the fuss there was about the gay kiss on ATWT in the US, it is something to applaud.
As for the people claiming people don't have food in Cuba; this is simply untrue. Though not everyone has equal amounts of food and the quality of the food is not always to write home about, I think it would be fair to say more people have food in Cuba than they do in the US.
And for the people saying 'so they have food, shelter, medical care, but no freedom', in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, these things come before the concept of freedom. Freedom is of no good when you're dead!
Change is coming, slowly but steady it seems. You can't expect an overnight revolution, the revolution started years back with Fidel Castro is still going on - or so they say. Let the US stay out of Cuban affairs, there are enough educated, eager young people to bring about the change that is needed on that island.
Perez, do you know what this means, now you and John Mayer can go to Cuba and get married….oh..I am so very happy for you!!!!!!
When will be able to open my "Buster Cherry's Restaurant and Marina?" Die you Son of a Bitch Castro!! I have plans! LIBERTAD! Liberty for Cuba! Long live Elian Gonzalez for electing G.W.Bush over Albore. Jr. JFK would have told Castro, "Come and get Elian, you sorry sack of shit, dare you!" Clinton bent over and handed him off. Punk.
I'm really shocked about this! In a good way of course but in a way I can't help but to think this is some evil way of getting gays into a register and make their lives a living hell or just kill them. It is Cuba after all.. If it's genuine then good for Cubans, you've going ahead of the US soon, like the rest of the world.
joke.
For 50 years the Castro's brothers brutalized the island of Cuba. Gays were condemn to 30 years in prison, thousand were killed and now we praise Raul? Praise him for what? Raul is a very well know homosexual that let thousand of homosexuals being abuse by his brother. He is a coward. Too little, to late.
Sorry Perez.
Re: just – JUST, the repub spiel doesn't work anymore. The repub brand is dead. Please turn off rush limbaugh. Peace be with you
ANYONE KNOW THE STATISTICS ON THE AIDS INFECTION RATE IN CUBA?
Nice to see you consider yourself Cuban instead of American.
Well good thing the U.S wasn't in the country because they would just overturn the decision lol.
Hey! Why don't all you Cubans go home now?!
nobody cares about cuba, dude…the only thing good about cuba are baseball and cigars…otherwise, fug 'em
Re: thisiscool – Because it doesn't need to.
Who gives a shit!?
Re: STOP SPREADING DISEASE – ASK YOUR MOM!
This is Pathetic. They need to REALLY FUCKIN' focus about their human condition, such as upgrade from those DAMN 1956 styled cars, develop a strong ecnomy and help the poor people. Coming out and trying to parade their homosexuality CAN SIMPLY WAIT! FOUCKIN' RETARDS!
UUGGG WHAT NEXT, THEY'LL LEGALIZE PEOPLE MARRYING ANIMALS??!?!?
MEN ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WITH WOMEN AND VICE VERSA!
SEEMS ANY DAMN THING GOES THESE DAYS (OR SHOULD I SAY GAYS!)
I am happy for the Cuban people. I think its wonderful that their lives are slowly changing for the better.
Let´s see if Raul takes the risk of making a fair election to be a president. PROGRESS??
hopefully this pathetic first fad will die out soon…
Im so happy about this…Im Cuban, I couldn’t be more shocked but at the same time I feel very hapy about this!..and to think that they are thinking to do this in Cuba while the majority of the US is still not doing it, makes me feel so disappointed in this country where we all supposed to have equal rights and yet we don’t!
Miles u r fucking idiot..cubans care about Cuba..
Kyle if u want to marry an animal…well… u can’t, I’m sorry it upsets u that they are giving gays their rights, but comparing that to animals?? C’mon, be more original! Ohh!”supposed” doesn’t mean shit!u r supposed to have some degree of intelligence, yet u r an perverted asshole…
What!!! All the issues that the Cubans are facing and all u wanna talk about is legalizing gay marriage. SICK!
Those ppl have more problems to deal with….Like keeping their money!
Sounds like BS. I'm all for gay rights, but how does one "take steps to combat homophobia"?
Please don't be CONNED by Raul. He's every bit as bad as his brother. I believe he only wants to CO-OPT gays by doing this. Everyone knows he's gay/bi himself, so it shouldn't be a surprise. Even with Raul, Cuba's the worst place on earth next to North Korea. A 1984 totalitarian hell hole.
Some Miami Cubans that are in the financial sector should get together and investigate how many BILLIONS Raul and Fidel have ROBBED from the Cuban people and STASHED in Swiss, etc. bank accounts. Fidel's ex bodyguard who defected regularly took cash overseas for the Castro brothers. He said Raul is only interested in money that way Fidel was only interested in power, and Raul would be happy living off all the money he stole overseas in exile.
I was last month in Cuba and its just like any other place…traight and gays everywere,. I stayed at peoples houses not in hotels and they have food, dvd, phones, music players, internet, cable,,,everything. Its just not comming from USA but yes from every other country.Also allot of new cars, new buildings, cellphones….tourism!!!!….It is not primitive as many may think
How the fuck can you proudly state that you are a Cuban-American and then in any way support Raul Castro's leadership? The Cuban population have been robbed of basic freedoms under the Castro family's regime and have been denied a civil, humane life. No real Cuban has anything nice to say about any Castro.
You're fucking disgu