Cuban security agents detain gay activists, cancel parade
Posted on Thu, Jun. 26, 2008
By STEVE ROTHAUS
srothaus@MiamiHerald.com
Gay dissidents in Cuba report that a planned gay-rights rally Wednesday
was canceled after government security officers detained nine organizers.
"The march was not able to take place because the government stopped our
leaders," said Ron Brenesky, a Miami Cuban who heads the Unity
Coalition, South Florida's largest Latin gay rights group.
"Our brothers and sisters in Cuba, they are not alone," said Brenesky,
who spoke with gay activists in Cuba by cellphone Wednesday evening.
Unity Coalition members gathered for the phone call at Club Azucar on
Southwest 32nd Avenue in Little Havana.
Dissident Ignacio Estrada Cepero told Brenesky and the others that he
was detained early Wednesday before the planned rally in Havana.
Security guards told him he didn't have permission to leave his home
province of Santa Clara, Brenesky said.
Cuban Aliomar Janjaque was put on house arrest after being warned not to
gather in a park with other gay dissidents, he told Unity Coalition members.
The park was taken over by security forces, Janjaque said.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/583987.html
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