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Queers to Cuba Tour

On December 27, 2007, a group of Northreassignment surgery. These changes are being
Americans will make history by flying tobroadly debated by the population, yet North
Havana on the first ever Queers to Cuba Tour.Americans hear very little about this kind of
They'll spend eight days experiencing thepopular  democracy."
island's rich cultural heritage and meeting
representatives of Cuban organizationsThe tour is being organized by Cuba Education
working for sexual dignity. Activists fromTours of Vancouver, Canada, whose
CENESEX (the National Center for Sexualcoordinator, Marcel Hatch, insists, "The
Education), the Cuban organization advancingimage of Cuba as a gulag for LGBT people is
queer reforms and AIDS awareness, will brieffalse. It's a myth invented by opponents of
tour  members  on  the  island  scene.revolutionary Cuba. As a gay, I feel safer in
Cuba than in Canada or the States. Soon
Program highlights include joining the throngisland queers will enjoy greater rights and
celebrating the 49th anniversary of the Cubanfreedoms than their counterparts in the USA."
Revolution in Old Havana, attending an
authentic drag show, swimming at the gayRicardo Alarcon, president of Cuba's National
beach, learning salsa dancing from islandAssembly, has said, "We have to abolish any
pros, and sampling the city's excitingform of discrimination against those persons.
nightlife. Tour participants will exploreWe have to redefine the concept of marriage.
colonial and modern Havana, sample museums ofSocialism should be a society that does not
art and history, and visit the eco-communityexclude  anybody."
at  Las  Terrazas  in  Pinar  de  Rio.
Sonja de Vries recalls, "When I visited Cuba
The farewell dinner will be at La Guaridalast December with a group, we met with
Restaurant where the famous 1995 movieCENESEX president Mariela Castro Espin and
"Strawberry and Chocolate" starring Jorgeshe told us about the concrete work being
Perugorria and Vladimir Cruz was filmed. Indone with transgender people, with lesbians,
the movie, a young Communist Party activistand with families to encourage support of
learns the meaning of live and let live fromtheir LGBT kids. Several members of my group
a  gay  artistic  director.were in tears. To see these efforts being
carried out in a way that is so respectful
The tour is being conducted by Sonja deand compassionate is not something most of us
Vries, co-founder of San Francisco-basedhave experienced with institutions, much less
Queers for Cuba, the first LGBT (lesbian,government!"
gay, bisexual, transgender) group to be
officially invited to Cuba. Ms de VriesThe inaugural Queers to Cuba Tour will run
studied race and gay issues in Havana fromfrom December 27, 2007, to January 3, 2008.
1993 to 1994, and her groundbreakingParticipants will stay at the Hotel St John's
documentary "Gay Cuba" remains the last wordin the heart Havana's Vedado entertainment
on  the  subject.district. The services of a multilingual
Cuban guide and a professional bus chauffeur
"The Queers to Cuba Tour comes at an excitingwill be provided throughout. It's an event
time for LGBT equality in Cuba," says SonjaLGBT people and their friends from Canada,
de Vries. "The Cubans are draftingthe United States, and beyond will not want
legislation to allow same sex unions, lesbianto miss.
adoption and insemination, and transgender



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