Oye Loca: From the Mariel Boatlift to Gay Cuban Miami
Susana Peña
Abstract
THE 1980 MARIEL BOATLIFT was a turning point in Miami’s Cuban American and gay histories. My work begins with this moment of cultural collision. It examines discourses about Mariel that both sensationalized and silenced the gay presence, the challenges faced by homosexual men who entered as part of the boatlift, and the emergent Cuban American gay culture that transformed Miami’s ethnic and sexual landscapes.
Keywords: Latino Studies, Latina Studies, Cuban American, Cuba, LGBT Studies, Gay, Sexuality, Culture, Ethnography, Sociology
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780816665532 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816665532.001.0001 |
