@Concerned_Catgirl yeah, they did, that was an atrocity. they also stopped doing it, explicitly acknowledged that it was an atrocity, and have taken significant strides toward dismantling the homophobia and transphobia that remain in Cuban society as a relic of its colonization.

for context, at the same time and even significantly after, the US was rounding up queers by the van load and sending them off to be tortured in prison. it was an awful time to be queer in most of the world.