I'm hoping this doesn't start a fight, I'm just curious what the political orientation is of this community. I grew up in a liberal (in the American sense) family, and I identify now as a socialist, though a lot of the liberalism I grew up in has stuck with me, like interest in LGBTQ and women's rights, environmentalism, etc. Wondering where people here land?

  • SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    and only recently has enacted LGBTQ rights because it's been forced to open up to the rest of the world after the fall of the Soviet Union.

    Look, I'm no fan of how Cuba treated it's queer population historically. That much we agree on.

    But to suggest that Cuban queers have no agency of their own, and pretend like Cuba only passed its family code because it was "Forced to open up to the rest of the world" portrays an incredible ignorance of Cuban history and politics.