In 1936, there were 1 recorded legal change made affecting LGBT people. In the previous year, there were 2 changes made and in the following year. A total of 45 legal changes were made in the 1930s.
- (date unknown)Homosexual activity becomes ambiguous.The shaping of Cuban law is one of U.S and Spanish influence. Products of it's time as a colony and subsequent military intervention, the Civil Defense Code in 1936 ommitted previous provisions that criminalized homosexuality remanants from Cuba's colonized ruins. This did not mean LGBT Cubans did not face persecution though. Despite no laws that expressely criminalized private same-sex sexual relations, LGBT Cubans were still targeted, leaving the status of same-sex relations in a state of limbo until it's re-clarification in 1979.