Posted on 06/08/2006 5:23:58 AM PDT by Dane
Cuba Breaks Taboos With National Gay Soap Opera
(CBS4/AP) HAVANA Once persecuted, then excluded, and finally tolerated, Cuban homosexuals have seen the debate on sexual diversity open wide before their eyes over the past few week. Now state-run Cuban television is breaking even more taboos with a gay soap opera.
For the first time ever, Cuban television is running a soap opera where several of the characters are openly gay.
"The Hidden Side of the Moon" is the title of the soap opera that has generated so much controversy among Cuban viewers that the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television, a state-run entity, had to pre-empt regular programming and invite a panel of experts to call for tolerance.
The soap opera tells the story of people that by different means have been infected by HIV.
Not everyone agrees with the notion that the soap will help Cuban society be more aware of diversity and become more tolerant.
Abraham Bueno, a gay who regularly turns into a female character named Imperio, believes that while the new soap opera did give entry to homosexuals on television, it didn't necessarily help their image.
Personally, I think it might be the influence of Hugo Chavez.
They have soap in Cuba?...........
Do the characters get thrown into moral re-education camps?
This is just TOOOOOOOO EZ!............
All the real men have alread left Cuba.
Even though they do have great "health care". Such a socialist paradise.
I mean they've got all those great 1950's Chevy's, Packard's and Studebaker's in perfect condition. "We don't need no steenking modern cars, we've got health care and lots and lots of cigars"!
JMO, you don't have to try.
JSYK, I wasn't directing the pic at you.
You maybe correct.
Appropriate title.....
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