The daughter of Cuban dictator Raul Castro, Mariela Castro, leads a

march against homophobia in Havana. Mariela is director of Cuba’s

National Center for Sexual Education. Coming from someone so

significant to the Cuban regime, her sign is a surprisingly positive

message to the president of the United States.

As an 'Unashamed' Heterosexual - I Support Gay Marriage (Norte Digital, Mexico)

“Sometimes people complain about my sympathy for gays. The other day a young man approached me at the end of a conference and shouted at me: 'Hey, why do you defend the faggots so much?' I managed to respond: 'So that there won’t be any more people that call them ‘faggots.'”

By ‘Caton’

Translated By Douglas Myles Rasmussen

May 11, 2012

Mexico - Norte Digital – Original Article (Spanish)

I have never been ashamed of my heterosexuality. Not even now, when it is so fashionable to be one, will I go into the closet to hide my condition as a heterosexual male. It is not out of boastfulness, but rather gratitude, that I can sign, seal and deliver that I have always enjoyed – and I still enjoy, thanks be to God! – the infinite pleasures that come from “that delicious pastry” that is, according to Juan Valera, women.

I also affirm without reservation that if God, in his omniscient wisdom, had made me homosexual, I would also have enjoyed my homosexuality, always trying, as I have tried in my “straight” condition, not to do harm to myself or others. I sympathize greatly with homosexuals. In fact, some of my best friends are homosexual.

Sometimes people complain about my sympathy for gays. The other day a young man approached me at the end of a conference and shouted at me: “Hey, why do you defend the faggots so much?” I managed to respond: “So that there won’t be any more people that call them ‘faggots.”

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I recognize, perhaps, that the attitude I have for homosexuals could be an expression of regret. I must have been eight or nine years old when, together with a friend of mine, I yelled out “Queer!” at Robertito Guajardo, the most conspicuous and notorious homosexual in my hometown of Saltillo. He turned around, angry, and came after us. We ran in fear, and Robertito kept following us. A good woman that had seen the exchange from her door stopped him. “Leave them alone, Robertito,” she said. “They are kids.” He responded, this time in a wounded voice: “Why do they shout at me, doña Fina? This is the way God made me!” And he was right: that’s the way God made him. And nevertheless, even today, those who claim to be men of God treat gay people as abnormal beings, denying them the right to live out their homosexuality, and they call their love an abomination and a sin against the Holy Spirit.

Just last April in his Good Friday homily, a Spanish hierarch, Bishop of Alcalá de Henares Juan Antonio Reig Plá, said the following about homosexuals: “From the time they are children they think they are attracted to the same sex … I assure you that they will find hell.” For these words, which go as much against Christian charity as they do the law, he is now the subject of a legal investigation.

If Robertito Guajardo were alive today I would ask his forgiveness with all my heart, because the offensive insult that I committed, despite being the action of a child, still weighs heavily on my conscience. I’m saying all this because here we have Barack Obama, who in the midst of his re-election campaign declared to an important TV network his support for legal unions between homosexuals.

“Same-sex couples should be able to get married,” he declared without reservation. He added that after several years of reflection, his ideas on the issue had evolved, arriving at the conclusion that on this topic, “we must move forward.” The U.S. President risks a lot by saying this. His attitude is brave and it deserves recognition. With his position he is giving new life to the cause of civil rights in his country, and he is helping strengthen the fight against the hostility and discrimination that people of different sexual preferences still suffer.

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And now for an off-color joke.

Babalucas broke his leg, and was at home recovering, being cared for by his two sisters who were a bit old but still attractive and in good health. A friend of his came to visit, and Babalucas asked him: “Can you please go up to my room on the second floor and fetch me my slippers?”

His friend went upstairs, and upon passing the sisters’ room saw the two appetizing ladies. “I am here,” he told them, “because Babalucas asked me to come up and make love to you.”

“Are you crazy?!” they both exclaimed simultaneously (and not just simultaneously, but also at the same time). “Don’t you believe me?” asked the lecherous friend.

 “Listen.” He shouted down the staircase to Babalucas: “Both of them?” Babalucas replied “Don’t be stupid. Of course both of them!” The friend turned to the two sisters and said “See?” The sisters exchanged a happy look and proceeded to close the door to their room. “If that’s what our brother wants …” they simultaneously said to the friend (and not just simultaneously, but also at the same time) …