FILE - In this May 11, 2013 photo, Abrahan Bueno, 39, a gay transvestite artist known as "Imperio" descends a flight of stairs as he makes his way to the stage at the Karl Marx theater in Havana, Cuba. A week of drag shows, colorful marches and social and cultural events in Havana culminated with celebrations of International Day Against Homophobia. Gays were persecuted for decades after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, sometimes sent to grueling rural work camps along with others considered socially suspect by the Communist government. But there has been a gradual shift away from such attitudes, and Fidel Castro himself has publicly regretted the mistreatment of people seen as different. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)