Really good news from Cuba is that on February 24th 2019  voters overwhelmingly approved the draft of the country’s new constitution that ‘expressly’ protects LGBTQI Cubans 

There have been reports that a very impressive  86.85 percent of Cubans who participated in Sunday’s referendum voted for the new constitution. 

The Draft includes three amendments that “expressly prohibits and punishes under law discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity”, recognizes “the right of all people to form a family and protects all families” and defines marriage not as the “union between a man and a woman” but rather as “a social and legal institution.”

Back in December there was an uproar in the LGBTQ community when the  government’s decided r to remove an amendment from  that would have extended marriage rights to same-sex couples in Cuba. 

Mariela Castro, the daughter of former Cuban President Raúl Castro who spearheads LGBTI issues as director of the National Center for Sexual Education has said they plan to push for changes to Cuba’s Family Code that would extend marriage rights to same-sex couples.