What do you think of people who protests when some TV series or soap opera shows the conflict faced by homosexual couples? Are they right in not wanting their children to see such programs?
When a lesbian couple is presented in soap operas, it always winds up in some dramatic ending and not at all happily ever after. Right now they’re airing a telenovela that has a lesbian couple in it. I haven’t heard anything positive from people when they talk in the street about them. I think that a great deal of lesbiphobia still exists, given patriarchal influences and sexual discrimination. A lot of people don’t understand, and when you ask them why two women cannot love each other, they say that women were born to have children and be mothers. However, many lesbians don’t aspire to that role, yet the media starts showing a series on conflicts that’s not easy to digest or to understand by people who are homophobic. On the program “When a Woman…”, sponsored by the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), they dealt with the issue of lesbianism recently. I also went to see a play titled “Of Hydrangeas and Violets,” by Estrer Suarez, which approaches the issue of a young lesbian couple that w
