Most of gays and Cuban lesbians they continue undergoing in the island a invisibility situation since the revolution prevailed over 1959, revolution that throughout its development generated one homofobia by means of isolation policies, and which still they continue dragging the Cuban society. At the moment the things have changed, but many gays and lesbians continue seeing like only solution to vindicate their rights leaving the island in search of more freedom. In the first years of the revolution the discrimination against gays and lesbians was not considerable, but between 75 years 65 and the Cuban regime untied the fury of homofobia: it committed to an important number of gays in camps of work, was persecuted to important figures of the arts and of the education, the subject of the homosexualidad was prohibited in Literature and it was prohibited to gays to enter the army. Beyond of the policy of the government of Fidel I castrate against gays, some authors find the roots of this homofobia at the colonialista time, since they affirm that the image that is controlled of gay in Cuba is in favor prejudiced of the conditioners of the cultural tradition (heterosexual and machista the model, that inherited the island of the metropolis). In any case, the situation of gays and lesbians of the island are at the present time in a delay compass. Nowadays, the main wall with that they must face gays and the lesbians in Cuba is the lack of social support and the lack of organized groups that defend with force their interests.

The crime of being gay.
There was a time, nevertheless, that the being gay or lesbian in Cuba was a crime, since up to 1979 he was regulated in the Penal Code like a criminal crime. From the reform of the code of this year it happened to be legal that the adults of mutual consent made sexual conducts with people of their same sex, as long as they were in private. But until the penal code again was reviewed in 1987, the public ostentation of a "condition was prohibited gay". Even so, according to some information, in spite of the relaxation of the norm, the authorities can use it like drawer of satre and whatever it contravenes the public decency can still be condemned to sentences of prison of three 12 months.

Males, Maricones and Gays.
The political scientist Canadian Ian Lumsden analyzed the Cuban regime of homofobia in the book "Male, Fag, and Gays: Cuba and the homosexualidad ", in which it shelled the historical and cultural roots of this homofobia and the present situation, that according to its opinion has improved for gays at the present time. The writer is gay, leftist and partisan of the Cuban revolution, but he criticizes the policy of the government of Fidel I castrate with respect to the rights of gays and lesbians. Lumsden attributes the persecution of gays to a combination of factors, including the Spanish colonial inheritance of the machismo, or the masculine domination of women, and the scorn to the effeminate men. Lumsden affirms that such prejudices can also be found in other parts of Latin America, in those places where they are similar to the Cuban cultural values. Another element that contributed to that Cuba developed a policy against gays, according to the author, was because the government assumed the position of the Stalinismo, practiced in the Soviet union, and that he maintained that the homosexualidad was a form of "decay of burguesía".Como other analysts, Lumsden affirms that from the half-full ones of the Seventies, the systematic discrimination against gays diminished gradually.

The poetic fight.
The opposition to the Cuban regime and the denunciation of the situation of gays and lesbians in the island have had to build themselves from outside its borders and for that reason individual outstanding, coverall, actions are had. The cinema, in a process of collective purgación that made justice, has recovered us one of those figures that it had to undergo the repression of the state, coverall by his contrarrevolucionaria reputation but also by its condition of gay, poet and revolutionary of the ideas. Reinaldo Sands appeared again and universalizó thanks to the film of Julian Schnabel "Before it grows dark" and all we were discovered that it was a surrealista that used the poetic one like weapon of opposition to the Cuban regime. Sands are recognized now by the great majority of the gay-lésbica community of all the planet, although the writer committed suicide in New York, being ill of AIDS, in absolute of the forgetfulnesses.