Castro: I’m responsible for past anti-gay persecution
In an Aug. 31 interview with the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, Fidel Castro accepted responsibility for Cuba’s persecution of homosexuals decades ago.
From 1959, when the previous government was overthrown in an armed rebellion, until the 1970s, gays were branded counterrevolutionaries and forced into labor camps.
“Those were moments of great injustice,” Castro told La Jornada. “A great injustice! ... If anyone is responsible, I am.
“It’s a given that at that time, I couldn’t occupy myself with this matter. I found myself immersed primarily in the October Crisis (Cuban missile crisis), the war, political questions (but) I’m not going to toss the bl…
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