"Fidel Castro's Horrific Record on Gay Rights
Concentration camps for gays. Political prisons where they were treated like "beasts." Listen up liberals. Before you go celebrating the life of Castro, remember his victims.
James Kirchick
JAMES KIRCHICK
11.27.16 2:23 PM ET
Fidel Castro was many things: a revolutionary, a Communist, a garrulous orator. Amidst the fawning encomia released upon his long-overdue death at the age of 90, it should never be forgotten that he was also an oppressor, torturer, and murderer of gay people.
“We would never come to believe that a homosexual could embody the conditions and requirements of conduct that would enable us to consider him a true Revolutionary, a true Communist militant,” Castro told an interviewer in 1965. “A deviation of that nature clashes with the concept we have of what a militant Communist should be.”
Fidel Castro's Horrific Record on Gay Rights - The Daily Beast
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