– After a referendum on the family code, which includes homosexual marriage, was ratified on September 25 in Cuba, two men starred in one of the first same-sex marriagesin Cuba.
This is 32-year-old Adiel, a theologian, who he had to break with his baptist churchand become a staunch activist defender of LGBTQ + rights, to marry her boyfriend Lázaro, reports Infobae.
same-sex couples, They have started getting married in different provinces of the islandafter the new family code, which apart from equal marriage, includes the adoption of same-sex couples, and assisted gestation, among others.
“For us that we get so directly involved“For gay marriage to be accepted in Cuba, we made it part of our daily life, which was our daily bread, for seven consecutive years, getting married, it was the closure, the culmination,” Adiel Gonzáles told Agencia AFP.
Lázaro got up very early on Thursday to prepare the “wedding” banquet. to which only those closest to the couple were invited.
“We were always waiting this moment, because it has been a dream”he says preparing a coffee, before changing to attend the ceremony”
Countries where gay marriage is legal
In Latin America, homosexual marriage is legal in different countries, such as: Argentina (now also in Cuba), Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Chile, and in several Mexican states.
However, in Cuba it has been a sensitive issue, because, in the country, there are still keep their principlessince the 1969s and 1970s, when the government ostracized and many homosexualssent them to militarized farm labor jobs.
“Hard work”
Adiel thinks that since then “Cuba has changed overnight”, since having a president, who publicly says, “who is in favor of marriage equalitythat did not fall from heaven”, he comments, but rather, it is the result of hard work, by activists and academics, who managed to influence political decisions.
This activist says that he also had to face The burden of being born into a Christian familya, very conservative and fundamentalist.
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