Cuba has approved sex-change operations and banned workplace discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people in recent years, but it has yet to legalize same-sex marriage or even civil unions.
About 500 people marched in the seventh annual parade against homophobia through Havana's Vedado district, where cross-dressing dancers and hand-holding same-sex couples, joined by dozens of foreign visitors, clamored for greater social acceptance.
By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Several hundred Cubans danced to a conga beat, waved the rainbow flag and proclaimed their same-sex love on Saturday, celebrating great advances in gay rights while patiently waiting for the still politically distant right to marriage.
