The march was organized largely using Cuba's new mobile internet, with gay-rights activists and groups of friends calling for a march over Facebook and WhatsApp after the main government-run gay rights organization, the Center for Sex Education, canceled a Saturday march. Reporters granted access to ICE transgender detainee unit. The Globe and Mail. Al Jazeera. Cuban gay writer Reinaldo Arenas wrote, "[T]he decade of the sixties Architects Artists Athletes baseball players Painters abstract Writers women. Even the limited sources on Cuba used in this study suggest, albeit obliquely, that gay Cubans were not merely passive recipients of state repression.
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Media outlets have spoken of a "revolution within a revolution" or of a "rainbow revolution", and have pointed out how quickly the landscape for LGBT rights has changed, as just a few decades back Cuba imprisoned gay men in labor camps.