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Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
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Of course this guy is an idiot and liberals will be quick to point it out. On the other hand, Castro quarantined homosexuals as a way of fighting the spread of HIV and the liberals still love him. Castro also put gays in concentration camps in the nineteen sixties.
From The New York Times:
In Cuba, thousands of homosexuals were sent to concentration camps in the late 1960's, together with others deemed deviant by the Castro regime. Echoing the slogan on the gates of Auschwitz, the camps were emblazoned with the words "Work will make you men." Though the camps were shut after a few years, the subsequent purges of homosexuals from the ruling Communist Party were condemned by intellectuals like Jean-Paul Sartre and Susan Sontag.
In 1980, when angry mobs at officially organized rallies denounced gay men and women as "scum," many homosexuals were among the 125,000 Cubans who fled in the Mariel boatlift. Cuba is the only country in the world to have quarantined homosexuals and others who test positive for H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/22/mo...ted=all&src=pm