Homosexuality in the Castrocomunism

Discrimination against homosexuality in Western culture in general, which includes republican Cuba, is a widely discussed topic. In Cuba, these acts were sanctioned by the master narrative of a perpetual revolutionary crisis and by the project of creating an ideal figure of socialism, in a context in which to express itself against such official opinions would characterize one of counterrevolutionary or agent of the Imperialism, and justifying any action taken against one. Within the revolutionary codes, homosexuality constituted an ideological difference, one of the "negative cultural influences" denounced by the First National Congress of Education and Culture of 1971 - "one of the most nefarious moments in Cuban cultural politics", according to Padura Fuentes  from which emerged the initiative for the parametrization of artists like Marques in Havana Red.

The connection of the intelligentsia with homosexuality was evident in the recognition by Congress of the socio-pathological character of this and other non-revolutionary attitudes. According to the Congress statement, there was "a small group of mentally settled" and "false intellectuals" who "intended to turn snobbism, extravagance, homosexuality and other social aberrations into expressions of revolutionary art, far from the masses and the spirit Of our Revolution, "and who were therefore denied access to the diffuse media of cultural information. As in the official congressional statement, Castro in his closing speech rejects criticism of censorship, explaining that the failure to print "issues related to intellectual gossip" ("Discourse" should not be considered a problem for a A country that faces the greatest danger of living ninety miles of imperialist power. The frequent use by Castro of diminutives to refer to the "group" of "privileged children" and "agents of cultural colonialism"  who are concerned with such "problems" and go to Havana to Participating as judges in "little contests" demonstrates the concept of masculinity implicit in the opposition between that type of person - Castro also calls them "intellectual rats"  - and the "real fighters", the true revolutionaries.