Artists and travesis Cubans staged a gala Saturday against homophobia in the Karl Marx theater in Havana, the most important of the island, before a public outpouring of five thousand people attended to support the cause of sexual diversity.
The show brought together popular singers in Cuba, as Hayla and Maria Antoinette, the quick-change artists known as Empire, Margot and Chantal, along with musicians, dancers and models.
The audience, mostly members of the LGBT community, enjoyed three hours of music with classic Cuban song, famous pieces of musical Cabaret and Cats and international success of artists like Whitney Houston, Beyonce and Rihanna.
The gala, which will have a second function today, was organized by the National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) and is one of the Cuban Day activities for the World Day Against Homophobia, which began last Tuesday on the island .
Cenesex The director, Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro attended the event and paid homage to the artists and the public, in a section of the gala also honored the memory of his mother, the revolutionary Vilma Espin (1930-2007), who founded the Federation of Cuban Women.
also attended by the president of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, Miguel Barnet, and the Head of the Ideological Department of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Cuba, Rolando Alfonso Borges.
"This revolution makes it much invincible if we are united everyone," said Margot onstage, one of the transvestites who hosted the show, which were to be seen several rainbow flags from the public.
Cuban The Fourth Day Against Homophobia runs through May 17 with events in at least 10 of the 15 provinces, and will have its core in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.
With the support of other institutions, CENESEX has organized a program that also includes lectures, exhibitions, book presentations and demonstrations, among other acts.
In recent years the center has led a campaign to raise insistent on the political and public opinion on the respect for sexual diversity and, since 2007, promoted the celebration on the island for the World Day Against Homophobia.
The achievements of the work of the institution is the legalization of sex change operations and the submission to Parliament of a bill that would amend the Family Code, details such as the legal union between gay couples.
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