Cuba Family Code: Country votes to legalise same-sex marriage [View all]
Source: BBC
Cuba Family Code: Country votes to legalise same-sex marriage
26 September 2022
Cuba has voted to legalise same-sex marriage in a national referendum.
About two-thirds of the population voted to approve reforms in a new Family Code, which will also allow surrogate pregnancies and give gay couples the right to adopt children.
It marks a big moment for Cuba, which saw gay people persecuted and sent to work camps in the 1960s and 70s.
However, there was significant opposition to the reforms among religious groups and conservatives.
The referendum on Sunday was for a new Family Code - a 100-page document which went through more than two dozen drafts and hours of debate in community-level meetings.
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