Arrested Cuban transsexual dies in police custody in the Island

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By Alberto de la Cruz 

So much for the Castro regime’s embrace of Gay rights: 

Over the past year, there has been much hoopla over a series of conciliatory statements toward Cuba's gay community made by the daughter of dictator Raul Castro and head of the regime's sex ministry, Mariela Castro. In addition, the press went wild with the recent "gay marriage" that took place in Havana, pointing to the event as a watershed moment in the gay rights movement in communist Cuba.

The media and various "Cuba Experts" lauded the totalitarian dictatorship of Cuba for its "embrace" of gay rights, and cited Mariela Castro's statements and the "gay wedding" as proof that the tyrannical dictatorship of the Castro brothers is moving in the right direction. However, it is apparent that the "reforms" and "embrace" of gay rights were short-lived.

Via Penúltimos Días (my translation):

Funeral photograph of transsexual Nelson Linares Garcia, who died in police custody

Thirty-four-year-old transsexual Nelson Linares Garcia was detained in the early morning hours of September 8 at the Fraternity Park and taken to the police station in Zanja where he died shortly thereafter. A doctor certified "respiratory arrest" as the cause of death, but the authorities did not conduct an autopsy.

Photograph: Ignacio Estrad

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