Recently, Cuba has opened a hotel known as “The Rainbow Hotel ” which appeases to those in the LGBTQ+ community. While Cuba has had a homophobic past, many say that the hotel is a welcome place for you to be yourself.
LGBTQ+ people have been almost as large of a subject to harassment as people of different races. Some people have even used the word “Gay” as an insult to LGBTQ+ people.
While there have been debates about if the hotel was a way to mask Cuba’s poor human rights record, at the hotel, most of those debates were left as water under the bridge. They also hope that visitors, whether LGBTQ+ or not, become aware of the wider human rights context that this hotel is fighting for.
Ms. Paplow, a WJPS guidance counselor signified that “I think that it is great where the LGBTQ community can feel at ease and free to be themselves.”
Mr. Lao, a WJPS teacher noted “If Cuba wholeheartedly wants to support the community, then this was in fact, a good idea.”
Overall, Cuba opened the Rainbow Hotel to help support the LGTBQ+ community and to stop homophobia. Not only that, but to strive away from their homophobic dictatorship from the past.
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