Norma Guillard

Guillard's spent her childhood in Santiago de Cuba.^[1] She participated in the Cuban Literacy Campaign when she was 16.^[2]

In 1993, Guillard joined Magin, an association of professional women media communicators and worked with the organization as a public relations specialist^[1] before it was closed down. The organization worked to create awareness about gender equality and gender bias in the media and to challenge negative images of women in the media.^[3] Her work for Magin led her to write articles about sexuality and feminism. She was later approached by Mariela Castro of National Centre for Sex Education to organize a group of Cuban lesbians^[1] which was called OREMI. Oremi, the Cuban Multidisciplinary Society for the Study of Sexuality and the National Centre for Sex Education organized a symbolic same-sex marriage in 2007,^[4] the first-ever in the country to be recognized by the government.

In 2016, Guillard did an interview with BBC World Service in which she described her life as a single, lesbian mother during the Cuban Revolution.^[5]