Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940

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Poised on the edge of america and on the center of a much wider Caribbean world, these days’s Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capo Jr. shows on this fascinating history, Miami’s transnational connections reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami’s queer past from its 1896 founding through 1940, Capo shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their very own.

Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capo unearths the forgotten history of “fairyland,” a marketing term crafted by boosters that held a couple of meanings for different groups of people. In viewing Miami as a contested colonial space, he turns our attention to migrants and immigrants, tourism, and trade to and from the Caribbean–particularly the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti–to expand the geographic and methodological parameters of urban and queer history. Recovering the world of Miami’s old saloons, brothels, immigration checkpoints, borders, nightclubs, bars, and cruising sites, Capo makes clear how vital gender and sexual transgression is to figuring out the city and the broader region in all its fullness.

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