How Mariela Castro Is Leading Cuba's LGBT Revolution

A Castro In Charge Of Cuba's LGBT Revolution
The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro and director of the National Centre for Sexual Education (CENESEX) Mariela Castro (C), shouts slogans during a gay parade, on May 9, 2015, in Havana. AFP PHOTO/ADALBERTO ROQUE (Photo credit should read ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images)
The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro and director of the National Centre for Sexual Education (CENESEX) Mariela Castro (C), shouts slogans during a gay parade, on May 9, 2015, in Havana. AFP PHOTO/ADALBERTO ROQUE (Photo credit should read ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images)

HAVANA Just over a year ago, María Caridad Jorge made a revelation that would have been unthinkable in the not-too-distant past. "I am lesbian and religious and I also want to be a [Communist Party] militant," she wrote in her autobiography.

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