Persecution of homosexuals has been, to a great extent, a war waged by the Castro government in efforts to destroy the most resistant kind of social bond in the nation: resistant, because for centuries it has been accustomed to survive under repressive circumstances, because its natural environment has been secrecy.
—Ana María Simó and Reinaldo García Ramos
Literature is queer stuff, and I am truly a queer.
-Virgilio Piñera
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