From UMAPs to Save Our Children : policing homosexuality in Cuba and Miami before 1980 -- Obvious gays and the state gaze : gay visibility and immigration policy during the Mariel boatlift -- Cultures of gay visibility and renarrating Mariel -- Pájaration and transculturation : language and meaning in gay Cuban Miami -- Narratives of nation and sexual identity : remembering Cuba -- Families, disclosure, and visibility -- Locas, papis, and muscle queens : racialized discourses of masculinity and desire -- ¡Oye loca! : gay Cuba in drag
Summary
During a few months in 1980, 125,000 Cubans entered the U.S. as part of a massive migration known as the Mariel boatlift. Drawing from first-person stories of Cuban Americans, as well as government documents and cultural texts from both the U.S. and Cuba, the author reveals how a single historical event shaped the formation of an entire ethnic and sexual landscape