On a day dedicated to ending prejudice, I feel more uneasy than ever before about the negative rhetoric around LGBT rights, says Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson
I spent last week in Cuba, a time which overlapped with what should have been the country’s 12th annual Conga Against Homophobia and Transphobia. The march, however, organised by the government and the brainchild of Mariela Castro – daughter of Raul – was cancelled, owing to “new tensions in the international and regional context”.
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