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Iranian human rights campaigners estimate that 4,000 gay men have been executed since the Islamic revolution in 1979.

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The struggle for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights within the Bolivarian Revolution is one of the more difficult struggles

Nothing prevents a homosexual from professing revolutionary ideology and, consequently, exhibiting a correct political position… And yet we would never come to believe that a homosexual could embody the conditions and requirements of conduct that would enable us to consider him a true Revolutionary, a true Communist militant. A deviation of that nature clashes with the concept of what a militant Communist must be.

Thus, in their revolutionary zest, Castro's regime erected reeducation camps, where dissidents, religious leaders and gays were to be cleansed of their "anti-social behavior" and trained to serve the revolution. In 2006, while discussing the controversial camps, Castro acknowledged their existence, but refused to align them with the "supposed persecution of homosexuals." The “Military Units to Support Production,” he said, "were not internment units, nor were their punishment units. On the contrary, it was about morale, to give them a chance to work and help the country in those difficult circumstances.” Though the camps have since been abolished, the Revolution's quest for integration remains the same, albeit with some timely adjustments.