Gay Cuban Nation

Author : Emilio Bejel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226041743
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gay Cuban Nation written by Emilio Bejel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Gay Cuban Nation, Emilio Bejel looks at Cuba's markedly homoerotic culture through writings about homosexuality, placing them in the social and political contexts that led up to the Cuban Revolution. By reading against the grain of a wide variety of novels, short stories, autobiographies, newspaper articles, and films, he maps out a fascinating argument about the way in which nationalism and other institutions of power struggle for an authoritative stance on homosexual issues. Through close readings of writers such as José Martí, Ofelia Rodríguez Acosta, Carlos Montenegro, José Lezama Lima, Severo Sarduy, Achy Obejas, Sonia Rivera-Valdés, and Reinaldo Arenas, Gay Cuban Nation shows ultimately that the specter of homosexuality is always lurking in the shadows of nationalist discourse.

Author : María Encarnación Martín López
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855662884
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homosexuality and Invisibility in Revolutionary Cuba written by María Encarnación Martín López and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers alternative insights into the complex relationship between politics and intelligentsia in revolutionary Cuba.

Author : Susana Peña
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816686688
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oye Loca written by Susana Peña and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During only a few months in 1980, 125,000 Cubans entered the United States as part of a massive migration known as the Mariel boatlift. The images of boats of all sizes, in various conditions, filled with Cubans of all colors and ages, triggered a media storm. Fleeing Cuba’s repressive government, many homosexual men and women arrived in the United States only to face further obstacles. Deemed “undesirables” by the U.S. media, the Cuban state, and Cuban Americans already living in Miami, these new entrants marked a turning point in Miami’s Cuban American and gay histories. In Oye Loca, Susana Peña investigates a moment of cultural collision. Drawing from first-person stories of Cuban Americans as well as government documents and cultural texts from both the United States and Cuba, Peña reveals how these discussions both sensationalized and silenced the gay presence, giving way to a Cuban American gay culture. Through an examination of the diverse lives of Cuban and Cuban American gay men, we learn that Miami’s gay culture was far from homogeneous. By way of in-depth interviews, participant observation, and archival analysis, Peña shows that the men who crowded into small apartments together, bleached their hair with peroxide, wore housedresses in the street, and endured ruthless insults challenged what it meant to be Cuban in Miami. Making a critical incision through the study of heteronormativity, homosexualities, and racialization, ultimately Oye Loca illustrates how a single historical event helped shape the formation of an entire ethnic and sexual landscape.

Author : Emily J. Kirk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498557678
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuba’s Gay Revolution written by Emily J. Kirk and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuba’s Gay Revolution explores the unique health-based approach that was employed in Cuba to dramatically change attitudes and policies regarding sexual diversity (LGBTQ) since 1959. It examines leaders in the process to normalize sexual diversity, such as the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) and the National Center of Sexual Education (CENESEX). This book is written for scholars interested in LGBTQ issues, Cuba, and Latin America.

Author : Ian Lumsden
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439905592
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machos Maricones & Gays written by Ian Lumsden and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historically based, first-hand report of contemporary homosexuality in Cuban society and culture.

Author : Jafari S. Allen
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822349507
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book IVenceremos? written by Jafari S. Allen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn ethnography of sexual identity formation in contemporary Cuba./div

Author : Allen Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gays Under the Cuban Revolution written by Allen Young and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a New Left journalist Allen Young had worked to defend the Cuban Revolution during the 60s and the early 70s. Now in this personal essay, he reconsiders the Castro regime from the point of view of a gay man active in the Gay Liberation movement. He traces the rise of Cuban homophobia and examines the institutionalized persecution of gay people which has culminated in the recent waves of gay refugees seeking a measure of freedom in the United States"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Marvin Leiner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000311325
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexual Politics In Cuba written by Marvin Leiner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Marvin Leiner analyzes the practice of quarantine in the context of the Cuban Revolution. He also focuses on efforts by Cuban educators to introduce sex education in the schools and to change sexist and homophobic attitudes, discussing their successes and failures with candor and examining the explicit and implicit linkages between machismo and homophobia.

Author : Noelle M. Stout
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822376598
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Love written by Noelle M. Stout and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was dominating everyday discussions among gays, lesbians, and travestis. Largely eradicated after the Revolution, sex work, including same-sex prostitution, exploded in Havana when the island was opened to foreign tourism in the early 1990s. The booming sex trade led to unprecedented encounters between Cuban gays and lesbians, and straight male sex workers and foreign tourists. As many gay Cuban men in their thirties and forties abandoned relationships with other gay men in favor of intimacies with straight male sex workers, these bonds complicated ideas about "true love" for queer Cubans at large. From openly homophobic hustlers having sex with urban gays for room and board, to lesbians disparaging sex workers but initiating relationships with foreign men for money, to gay tourists espousing communist rhetoric while handing out Calvin Klein bikini briefs, the shifting economic terrain raised fundamental questions about the boundaries between labor and love in late-socialist Cuba.

Author : Leslie Feinberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780895671509
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba written by Leslie Feinberg and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an insightful look at lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) life in Cuba, this chronicle illuminates the progress the country has made from centuries of backward attitudes and oppression to the current state of enlightenment. From the mores of the Colonial period to the roles that Hollywood, the CIA, and Wall Street played in depicting Cuba as a "police state" for gays and in reinforcing the oppression, this overview provides a backdrop of the past and illustrates the persecution and exploitation originally planted by Spanish colonialism and further cultivated by U.S. capitalism. Details on the gradual transformation follow as the narrative examines the impact of the political and institutional initiatives taken by Fidel Castro and the Cuban leadership to overcome bigotry and prejudice against LGBT people--among them free health care and education, guaranteed jobs and housing, special health care for AIDS victims, and widespread sex education.