La Poderosa II

Fidel Castro in Poland, visiting few cities including Cracow and Warsaw, 1972.

My favourite one is him holding flowers, he looks a little bit shy.

In the case of Fidel or Che's prejudice in the 1950s and 1960s, they equate interpersonal and individual homophobic prejudice to state policies of persecution that did not exist in the manner they are represented as*, and use outdated remarks from an internationally prejudiced time period to apply judgements to the entire development of the revolution even up to the present day

And so, when a country like Cuba makes massive strides in queer rights; indeed, when the state becomes a protector of queer people, and Fidel renounces his past remarks, this does not exist to the homonationalists

Where legal progress exists, it is supposedly only a pretense to hide the abuses of the totalitarian dictatorship, because a socialist or anti-imperialist country can never really care about queer people like the pure, progressive Western state. Never mind that US presidents aren't apologising for the brutal state-sanctioned abuse of queer (especially when non-white and/or working class) communities that occurred throughout the 20th century. Lavender Scare, what's that?

Homonationalists are perfectly happy to condone and encourage the mass slaughter of imperialised populations through sanctions and warfare, because those populations have not earnt the right to humanity in the eyes of the homonationalist. Never mind the fact that their existence inherently disqualifies them; that whether homophobic or progressive, there is nothing a socialist or anti-imperialist state can do "right"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHE 🤍