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Cuban LGBT activists visit D.C.
Ignacio Estrada Cepero and Wendy Iriepa Diaz visit Casa Ruby on Monday, July 29, in Washington, D.C. (Washington Blade by Damien Salas)
Ignacio Estrada Cepero and Wendy Iriepa Díaz on Monday visited Casa Ruby and Us Helping Us in Northwest Washington. They also met with Cuban-born Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) at her office on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
Estrada, who founded the Cuban League against AIDS in , said while he and Iriepa were at Casa Ruby that they wanted to “show how we live, how we work” in Cuba while they are in the U.S. The activists also criticized Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuban President Raúl Castro who is the director of Cuba’s National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX) that supports LGBT rights while in the U.S.
“Mariela totally manipulates the LGBT community,” Iriepa said.
Estrada and Iriepa, a transgender woman who once worked for CENESEX, married in a high-profile wedding in Havana, the Cuban capital, in
They will remain in the U.S. for three months after arriving in Miami on June
Estrada and Iriepa traveled to D.C. less than three months after Mariela Castro traveled to the U.S. to
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Fidel Castro&#;s Birthday
August 13, admin
Fidel Castro was born August 13, That makes him 88 years old today [August 13, ]
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The Beat Generation&#;s particular involvement in Cuba, and in the Cuban Revolution, has been comprehensively explored by Todd Tietchen in his book,The Cubalogues &#; Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana. From the publisher&#;s description:
&#;Immediately after the Cuban Revolution, Havana fostered an important transnational, intellectual and cultural scene. Later, Castro would strictly impose his vision of Cuban culture on the populace, and the United States would bar its citizens from traveling to the island, but for these few fleeting years, the Cuban capital was steeped in many liberal and revolutionary ideologies and influences. Some of the most prominent figures in the Beat movement, including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), were attracted to the new Cuba as a place where people would be racially equal, sexually free, and politically enfranchised. What they experienced had resounding and lasting literary effects both on their work and on the many writers and artists they encountered and fostered..&#;
A review of Tietchen&#;s book (for The Beat Review) by Phil Dickinson can be