"HAVANA, Nov 11, 2011 (IPS) - Communist Party militant, gay rights activist, journalist and blogger Francisco Rodríguez has triggered an online debate in Cuba by calling for sexual diversity to be identified in the next census, due in September 2012.
Better known by the name of his blog, Paquito el de Cuba, Rodríguez has urged the national statistics office, ONEI, to follow the lead of other countries that have begun to identify same-sex couples and families in the 2010 round of global censuses approved by the United Nations."
Better known by the name of his blog, Paquito el de Cuba, Rodríguez has urged the national statistics office, ONEI, to follow the lead of other countries that have begun to identify same-sex couples and families in the 2010 round of global censuses approved by the United Nations."
This article outlines the need to recognize Cuba's GLBT population in the next census in order to discredit the myth that there are few GLBT in Cuba. The hope in recognizing this population through a census is to promote rights and prevent discrimination of GLBT and to persuade parliament to approve a bill recognizing equal rights for heterosexual and homosexual couples.
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