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Oh lmao he said sorry well that's fine then.
*Jerk-off motion and heavy eye-roll*
No, he said it was horrible that Cuba criminalized homosexuality to begin with, Cuba decriminalized homosexuality in 1979, then went on to become one of the most progressive countries in the world for queer people today. Cuba didn't execute masses of gay people, nor did the USSR, you've made shit up on both accounts. That's all anti-communists do, really, your little gesture at the end I mean.
https://www.advocate.com/world/2016/11/27/fidel-castro-leaves-legacy-oppression-say-many-lgbt-cubans
"I would never be happy about anyone's death -- anyone," Herb Sosa, a Cuban-American who heads the Miami-based LGBT group Unity Coalition, told the Washington Blade. "But the long-awaited passing of one of the Castro monsters that have imposed nearly six decades of oppression, pain and death to so many Cubans does bring a certain closure for many."
"No matter how much better life for gay Cubans might have improved from the days of forced labor camps, it's all occurring within the context of a totalitarian society whose citizens cannot vote, are denied basic freedoms like the right to speak or protest freely, and cannot form organizations independent of the government," Kirchick wrote.
Nevertheless, much remains to be done to advance human rights, including LGBT rights, in Cuba, activists say. "Fidel Castro's death invites us to remain calm and to focus on our activism to achieve change in Cuba, as opposed to rejoice over his death," Nelson Gandulla Diaz, president of the Cuban Foundation for LGBTI Rights, told the Blade Saturday.
"Fidel is gone, but Raul remains," he added. "The fight continues."
Sounds great lmao
Unironically repeating an emotional anecdote with no facts or statistics from a Miami-based Cuban Exile group, you know the slavers and fascists, as a point against Cuba is very silly. Those who fled Cuba just want their plantations and slaves back, even if you find queer descendents of slavers that doesn't make their cause just. Cuba is better than Miami for gay rights, lmao.
You right-wingers really have no media literacy, do you?