After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba

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Focused at the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that on a regular basis efforts to believe, withstand, 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 found out that the sex trade used to be dominating on a regular basis discussions among gays, lesbians, and travestis. In large part eradicated after the Revolution, sex work, including same-sex prostitution, exploded in Havana when the island used to be opened to foreign tourism within 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 at the same time as handing out Calvin Klein bikini briefs, the shifting economic terrain raised fundamental questions concerning the boundaries between labor and love in late-socialist Cuba.
 

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