Mariela Castro

Mariela Castro
Mariela Castro
	Mariela Castro addressing the Latin America plenary of the International Conference on LGBT Human Rights in Montreal, 2006
Director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2000
President	Fidel Castro; Raúl Castro; Miguel Diaz-Canel
Preceded by	Monika Krause-Fuchs
Personal details
Born	Mariela Castro Espín; 27 July 1962; Havana, Cuba
Party	CPC
Children	3
Parents	Raúl Castro (father); Vilma Espín (mother);
Relatives	Alejandro Castro Espín (brother); Ángel Castro y Argiz (grandfather); Fidel Castro (uncle); Ramón Castro (uncle); Juanita Castro (aunt); Alina Fernández (cousin); Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart (cousin);

Mariela Castro Espín (born 27 July 1962) is the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education in Havana, as well as the National Commission for Comprehensive Attention to Transsexual People, and an activist for LGBT rights in Cuba. Castro is an outspoken advocate for the LGBT+ community as well as dissolving some of the antiquated stigmas and stereotypes that surround the community. She is the daughter of former Communist Party First Secretary Raúl Castro and feminist and revolutionary Vilma Espín, and the niece of former First Secretary Fidel Castro.