Dear Walter and CubaNews friends,

We've put together a new website on a large and exciting gay event that took
place in Cuba on June 14 this year. It's packed with photos and video clips of
the gathering.

Several hundred LGBT people and their friends gathered at the Mi Cayito section
of Guanabo beach east of Havana celebrate newfound pride and launch the
"Together with You" (Junto a Tí) campaign. "Together with You" is a grassroots
initiative to prevent AIDS among men that have sex with men and has official
support.

Surprisingly it has received no press coverage in North America. (But you can
help by pointing friends and press to this site.)

Instead, world press has focused on the fake "Havana Gay Parade" that was
"cancelled." Here's our explanation of that scam:

In response to positive press coverage this year and last of rapid progress for
LGBT people on the island, right wing Cubans in south Florida recruited some
foolish gays there to orchestrate a fake scandal in an attempt to humiliate Cuba
and paint it as a gulag for gays. They announced they would hold simultaneous
"Gay Pride Parades" in Miami and Havana on June 25. The Miami "Unity Coalition"
tracked down a couple guys in Havana to join in their shenanigans. No "parade"
was ever organized or called in Havana. Here's their sham: announce a parade in
Havana from Miami and then announce (also from Miami) it was cancelled for fear
their Havana buddies faced imminent arrest and detention by the "evil Cuban
authorities." Shamefully no journalist sought to verify the facts island-side.
It was unreality reported by the press as truth. Sadly many well-intentioned
LGBT and social justice activists here were duped and confused. Mission
accomplished, Miami! (Google "gay pride parade cancelled cuba")

ARGH!

We invite you to see the photos, video and story of a REAL CUBAN GAY CELEBRATION
at:

http://gaycuba.ca/together/

We'd appreciate any feedback you may have on the site.

If you like the website and photos, please share the address with friends and
press -- especially gay and progressive journals and blogs -- to help reverse
the lie being spread that Cuba is a "concentration camp for queers!"

Thanks in advance.

Marcel Hatch
Vancouver, BC Canada