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[–] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 months ago

"Cuban gay writer Reinaldo Arenas wrote, "[T]he decade of the sixties ... was precisely when all the new laws against homosexuals came into being, when the persecution started and concentration camps were opened, when the sexual act became taboo while the 'new man' was being proclaimed and masculinity was being exalted.""

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Cuba