Fidel may have been, but his successors are not:

http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx...ticleid=339515

Cuba's gay community celebrated unprecedented openness -- and high-ranking political alliances -- with a government-backed campaign against homophobia on Saturday.

The meeting at a convention centre in Havana's Vedado district may have been the largest gathering of openly gay activists to date on the communist-run island. President Raul Castro's daughter Mariela, who has promoted the rights of sexual minorities, presided.