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1. Fidel Castro takes blame for 1960s gay persecution

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Fri Mar 11, 2016, 08:48 AM

Mar 2016

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-castro-idUSTRE67U4JE20100831
"Fidel Castro took the blame for a wave of homophobia launched by his revolutionary government in the 1960s, but said it happened because he was distracted by other problems, in an interview published on Tuesday in a Mexican newspaper.

The former Cuban president told La Jornada the persecution of gays, who were rounded up at the time as supposed counterrevolutionaries and placed in forced labor camps, was a "great injustice" that arose from the island's history of discrimination against homosexuals."

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