Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has backed same-sex marriage. The Cuban leader, who took over from Raúl Castro on 19 April, said he was in favour of recognising "marriage between people without any restrictions".
In an interview with TV Telesur, he said doing so was "part of eliminating any type of discrimination in society".
It comes as Cuba is in the process of updating its constitution, which had defined marriage as between "a man and a woman".
The proposed constitution will replace the 1976 national charter once a popular consultation is concluded and the draft has been approved in a national referendum scheduled for February 2019.
Official attitudes towards homosexuality on the Communist-run island have changed over the past decades partly thanks to the efforts of Raúl Castro's daughter Mariela.
Ms Castro, who heads the Cuban National Centre for Sex Education, has been a vocal defender of LGBT rights.
"We've been going through a massive thought evolution and many taboos have been broken," Mr Díaz-Canel told Telesur.
That's fine. I wish the best for Cuba and it's people.
Parker Gutierrez
So this is what they allowed Private Property to exist for?
Liam Johnson
Good The Cuban Model of Requiring popular referendum to Verify Constitutional Changes is good for preventing some Yeltsin from wiggling his way into power and Raining down a Capitalist Restoration on the population
Josiah Miller
There is nothing wrong with pragmatism. m
James Williams
Private Property / Capitalist Enterprise has never been fully abolished in Cuban Society the goverment simply commands the vast Majority of the MoP and Mainly allows Private Industry to handle the Distribution of goods / Service industry and the Recognition of Private Properties existence in the Constitution simply allows for the goverment to better Regulate black Market Sectors of the economy
Thomas Sanders
Good thing, I think LGBGTQ+ Marriages are fabulous.
