Tell me about A Revolutionary Family . The idea came when I visited Prague and met Michel . I was very eager to work and I wanted to make public interventions . It seemed very good to me to make this symbolic marriage with Michel , in which I could feel myself also in these people ´ s shoes . I did it to some extent to show solidarity with the problems about gender identity and to recognize how beautiful is that a person recognizes himself with another identity and does it publicly . I also think about the concept of revolutionary . What is truly revolutionary ? What are the new proposals we make as citizens , as artists ? How could that be seen from the other ' s gaze ? And I felt like a weird one , which is how people in the LGTBI community feel sometimes . I was observed in a strange way and it was a super interesting and very reflective exercise . Do you think that people may see your proposals as normal in the future ? I believe in a present , because the future is built from the present . I think that , since we went out into the street , people began to see homosexual marriage as normal and as a normal possibility . And we are the artists , the activists , the people who are reflecting on the reality that surrounds us , who can advance that reality towards new realities . I think it is normal in other latitudes . The foreigners looked at us as if it were something normal , they were not alarmed . It was a beautiful act to express your love for others and to do it in public . The Cubans felt a little fear of the unknown , but if it ´ s done with respect to others and in a beautiful way , people will understand . We even went out with my child to integrate it also within that future option . In the end , we thought this exercise was not only a way to our own happiness , but to the happiness that we could build for our children and their friends .
How did you feel that day in the street ? It was a special day and I think that together we did a little bit of history , we changed something in reality and pushed some barrier that day . I would like to continue to do so and even let the very people of the LGTBI community to express their love in public with pleasure . It seems to me that society improves whenever people are less frustrated and can express what they feel . In a way , sincerity also drives society ' s progress towards the good , the beautiful and the fair .
Once you have completed your audiovisual materials , what happen with them , what impact do they have on the media ? I want to return them to the activists , that ´ s the first thing , so the audiovisual materials are more of them than mine . I use them in favor of the LGTBI community and they reproduce and share them in their social networks and other circles of friends . I want to modify the Family Code and put pressure on the National Assembly for that . I want to activate legislative initiatives by the people of the LGTBI community themselves , as Mariela Castro or Miguel Barnet can do it , because they are deputies to the assembly and have not done much for this community . It seems to me that we can all press for what people are demanding . They shouldn ´ t feel that their citizenship quality is diminished with respect to others .
Besides being a woman , you are also a mother and a wife . How do you manage to do such a complicated and time consuming job ? I get it by integrating the whole family into my work . That ' s the solution I ´ ve
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