Editor’s note: Tremenda Nota, the Los Angeles Blade’s media partner in Cuba, published this op-ed on its website on May 8. Tremenda Nota published a Spanish version on May 6.
LA HABANA — Mariela Castro Espín sparked another controversy this past Tuesday at the socially-distanced, online launch of the annual Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
The organization she leads, Cuba’s National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX), has organized the event since 2008. The legislator, government official, and LGBTI activist, broadcasting together with the lawyer Manuel Vázquez Seijido and the journalist Francisco Rodríguez Cruz, took the opportunity to denigrate those who pursue activism outside of Cuba’s governmental institutions.
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