The march took place as part of this weekend's International Day Against Homophobia. Hundreds of people took part in what is reported to be a violent-free parade, unlike what happened in Belarus earlier today.
aimed at eliminating homophobia around the world.
celebration of the International Day Against Homophobia.
Said President Castro's daughter and longtime-time LGBT rights advocate Mariela Castro, who is in the center of the photo above: "We have made progress, but we need to make more progress."
"We all are socially pressured, and not only through police harassment but also from social rejection, gestures or expressions, and when we don’t receive proper treatment in some place because someone is a “too mannish” or “too loose,” and consequently they’re discriminated against. I don’t know if lesbians or if gays are the more rejected. I think lesbians are harassed more; men tend to give looser reins to their ghoulish instincts without realizing that it doesn’t please us. On the other hand, they humiliate us by subjecting us to their obscenities, often in public."