maybe it really isn’t very friendly? i hate having that outlook because i know cuba is cool and good, but i have a comrade taking miami lgbt cubans word for cuba being homophobic. any actual cubans living there have perspective i can read into?
Mariela Castro - Raúl's daughter - is an influential LGBT+ activist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariela_Castro
https://mobile.twitter.com/castroespinmHer position seems to be that Cuba is ready for change, but last year her same-sex marriage bill failed.
Here's an article about Castro admitting that he was wrong to persecute gays.
Here's a decent one which discusses Cuba's HIV response, and a bit about the LBGT scene in Havana
https://www.advocate.com/health/2016/3/30/cubas-gay-scene-and-hiv-education-are-impressing-americans
You'll probably find some good stuff in the sources for the wiki article on the history of lgbt ppl in cuba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Cuba