Reply #82: Hey, nice try! Maybe you could take the time to read more often.

[Judi Lynn]

Looks as if you missed an AP article Indiana Green posted here earlier! The CNN site doesn't have it, so here it is, from another site:

Kudos to Mariela Castro, Fidel's niece, for this completely rational and progressive program.

Castro's niece behind revolution in sexual politics
Havana (Reuters) -- Mariela Castro is leading a Cuban revolution less well-known than her Uncle Fidel's -- one in favor of sexual tolerance within the island's macho society.

Castro, 43, is leading the charge from her government-funded National Center for Sex Education, based in an old Havana mansion.

As director of the group, she promoted a soap opera that scandalized many Cubans in March by sympathetically depicting bisexuality. The controversial show depicted, among other story lines, the life of a construction worker who leaves his wife and children for the man next door.

Now President Castro's niece is pushing for passage of a law that would give transsexuals free sex-change operations and hormonal therapy in addition to granting them new identification documents with their changed gender.

A draft bill was presented to parliament last year and was well-received, she said. It is expected to come up for a vote in December.

If approved, it would make Cuba the most liberal nation in Latin America on gender issues.
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http://www.deeperwants.com/cul1/homeworlds/journal/archives/004049.html

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Here's one of the threads in which this subject has been discussed here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x219824

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Here is an article referring to the Cuban gay tv series mentioned in the article above:
http://cbs4.com/entertainment/local_story_158162533.html