Is Cuba a safe country for the LGBTQi+ community?
Two men sitting in the back seat of a green convertible classic car facing the bay of Havana Although Cuba is a conservative socialist country, it has stood out among other Caribbean countries by providing more rights to Homosexuals and transgender people. The island has been undergoing a long process of sexual education that focuses on health rights as well as a legal process of criminalising homophobia and combating discrimination against homosexuals. I recently interviewed "J" a young homosexual entrepreneur in Havana to get to know the reality of the LGBTQI+ community in Cuba these days. When did you assume your sexual preference and was it well accepted in your family? Around the age of 18 I began to accept myself, but I always knew that I was "different". My family took it pretty well. Not all families are open to it. Others are religious and their beliefs blind them. Others are simply not educated about these issues .... I know people who have had to leave th