Featuring an insightful look at lesbian gay bisexual and transgender LGBTlife in Cuba this chronicle illuminates the progress the country has made fromcenturies... » 

Featuring an insightful look at lesbian gay bisexual and transgender LGBTlife in Cuba this chronicle illuminates the progress the country has made fromcenturies of backward attitudes and oppression to the current state ofenlightenment. From the mores of the Colonial period to the roles thatHollywood the CIA and Wall Street played in depicting Cuba as a policestate for gays and in reinforcing the oppression this overview provides abackdrop of the past and illustrates the persecution and exploitationoriginally planted by Spanish colonialism and further cultivated by U.S.capitalism. Details on the gradual transformation follow as the narrativeexamines the impact of the political and institutional initiatives taken byFidel Castro and the Cuban leadership to overcome bigotry and prejudice againstLGBT peopleamong them free health care and education guaranteed jobs andhousing special health care for AIDS victims and widespread sex education. «