HAVANA (Reuters) – a gay dissident and a transsexual woman hitched on Saturday in just what had been considered a primary for Cuba, then draped on their own within the rainbow banner of homosexual pride and rode through the roads of Havana.
Gay liberties activist and dissident Ignacio Estrada and transexual Wendy Iriepa salute waving a LGBT flag from a convertible automobile after their wedding in Havana August 13, 2011. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan
In an easy civil ceremony in the middle of much hoopla, Ignacio Estrada, 31, and Wendy Iriepa, 37, finalized a married relationship certificate, exchanged bands and kissed before a situation official, whom wished them much pleasure.
It was perhaps not technically a same-sex wedding, that will be forbidden in Cuba, and received no disturbance from authorities
because Iriepa is lawfully a female after undergoing Cuba’s first state-sanctioned intercourse modification procedure in 2007.
Nevertheless the wedding, held on Fidel Castro’s 85th birthday celebration in exactly just what the few had known as a “gift” towards the previous frontrunner, had been directed at advancing homosexual liberties in Cuba and tinged with politics as a number of Cuba’s best-known dissidents participated and U.S. Continue reading “Gay guy marries transsexual woman in Cuban first”