Mariela Castro | |
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 Mariela Castro addressing the Latin America plenary of the International Conference on LGBT Human Rights in Montreal, 2006 | |
| Director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mariela Castro Espín 27 July 1962 Havana, Cuba |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Raúl Castro Vilma Espín |
| Relatives | Alejandro Castro Espín (brother) |
Mariela Castro Espín (born 27 July 1962) is the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education in Havana, as well as the National Commission for Comprehensive Attention to Transsexual People, and an activist for LGBT rights in Cuba. Castro is an outspoken advocate for the LGBT+ community as well as dissolving some of the antiquated stigmas and stereotypes that surround the community. She is the daughter of former Communist Party First Secretary Raúl Castro and feminist and revolutionary Vilma Espín, and the niece of former First Secretary Fidel Castro.