Amed and Luis from Cuba: We just want to hold hands on the street and have a few pesos for a beer. And maybe emigrate someday

Thirty-year-old artist Amed Martínez de La Paz and four-year-old neurosurgeon Luis Ángel Cabrera López have been a couple for more than a year. And that's in Cuba, which they long to leave. I met them on the Malecón, the coastal promenade in Havana. Every evening, many Cubans sit here, looking out to the horizon, where Florida lies in the distance. In an interview, the two men talk about how attitudes towards LGBTQ people are changing on the com…