Lesbian hip-hop duo from Havana fights homophobia with music

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"Cuba is a very misogynistic country and it's hard to be a lesbian or queer person here," Cuesta told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Havana. "Even though the new generation is more open and tolerant, we need to be better educated about same-sex relationships and LGBT rights." In the early years after 1959 revolution, homosexuality was seen as counter-revolutionary and Cuba's socialist rulers sent gay people to correctional labor camps.