Some additional information out of Havana on what went down before yesterday’s planned gay rights march there. The Miami Herald, reports on a conference call from gay Cuban activists in Havana to Miami:
“‘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.”
Ambiente sent out a press release yesterday reporting that some sort of assault went down as well. More information as it comes…
