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After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba
- Author(s): Noelle Stout
- Published: 2014
- Pages: 272
- Illustrations: 11 photographs
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"Lusty, warm, wide-ranging, and incisive, After Love takes us on a vivid journey through queer Havana today. It shows us how middle-class respectability, socialist rhetoric, consumer desire, and sexual elasticity both mesh and conflict with an increasingly free-for-all market economy, where sex work, foreign tourists, and the looming collapse of the socialist state have yeasted life into a froth of difficulty, uncertainty, and possibility."—Don Kulick, author of Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes
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Description
Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates how everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle Stout arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was dominating everyday discussions of gays, lesbians, and travestis. Largely eradicated after the Revolution, sex work, including same-sex prostitution, exploded in Havana when the island was opened to foreign tourism in the early 1990s. The booming sex trade led to unprecedented encounters between Cuban gays and lesbians, 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 while handing out Calvin Klein bikini briefs, the shifting economic terrain raised fundamental questions about the boundaries between labor and love in late-socialist Cuba.
About The Author(s)
Noelle Stout is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University.