Fidel Castro has said that he was responsible for Cuba persecuting gay men in the 1960s and 70s.

The former president told Mexican newspaper La Jornada that there had been moments of "great injustice" against the gay community.

Castro was leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2009 and believed that sexual diversity was a corrupt consequence of capitalism.

During his rule, many gay men suffered in Cuban labour camps as the regime 're-educated' homosexuals to rid them of their "counter-revolutionary tendencies".

Homosexual sex was partially decriminalised in Cuba in 1979.

In the last few years, Mariela Castro, the niece of the former president and the daughter of his successor, Raul Castro, has become a campaigner for LGBT rights.

Source:

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/09/01/castro-takes-responsibility-for-cuba-persecuting-gays/