LavenderRed_Cubabook
LavenderRed_Cubabook
LavenderRed_Cubabook
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Contents<br />
Introduction ........................................................... i<br />
PRE-REVOLUTIONARY CUBA<br />
1970s Cold War gay-bashers condemn Cuba ......................... 1<br />
Colonialism: the real ‘Apocalypto’...................................... 3<br />
Colonial period in Cuba: Bodies shackled and repressed .............. 7<br />
1950s Havana: Imperialist sexploitation ............................... 9<br />
EARLY YEARS OF THE REVOLUTION<br />
Why many Cuban gay men and lesbians left after 1959 .............. 11<br />
Early Cuban Revolution paved road to sexual liberation .............. 15<br />
1965 UMAP brigades: What they were, what they were not .......... 19<br />
Hollywood projected Cuba as 'police state' for gays .................. 25<br />
1970s: Decade of cultural progress ................................... 29<br />
Behind the 1980 'Mariel boatlift'...................................... 33<br />
1980: Homosexuality 'a visible feature of Cuban society'.............. 37<br />
Sex education campaign battled old prejudices...................... 41<br />
DEALING WITH AIDS CRISIS<br />
Cuba mobilized before first diagnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45<br />
AIDS quarantine in Cuba: Care & prevention, not repression.......... 49<br />
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