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Cuba Will Celebrate International Day against Homofobia next May 17
In that day, the Caribbean coountry will carry out activities of education in the society to respect the right to the free and responsible sexual orientation and gender identity, reports the Cuban News Agency.

The central venue of the program will be Pabellón Cuba, in Havana, with debates about the sexual diversity, launching of books and magazines. There will also be educational brochures on the prevention of the AIDS and the illnesses of sexual transmission.

During this whole week and until the day 17, the Cinema Club Diferente, in the capital, will project movies on the topic and will organize a cinema-debate during the whole year.

Several institutions, as the ministries of Public Health and of Culture, the Association of Cuban Writers and Artists, the Foundation Ludwig and the Association Hermanos Saíz, support this program, while the date will also be celebrated in the provinces of Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, Sancti Spíritus and Santiago de Cuba.

The announcement, led by the National Center of Sexual Education, intends to contribute to the education of the whole society, with emphasis in the family, in the respect for the right to the free and responsible sexual orientation and gender identity, as exercise of the social justice.

The homofobia refers to the aversion, hate, fear, prejudice or discrimination against homosexual people, and also reach bisexual (bifobia) or transgender (transfobia).

(Tiempo21.cu)

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