Gay CubaThe 1959 revolution that gave Cuba its independence ushered in a new era of equality, blind to race and to gender but not to sexual orientation. Military necessity and Stalinist ideology served only to reinforce long held stereotypes detrimental to the integration of LGBTQIA+ into Cubas perpetually reforming social structure. Gay Cuba documents the promising changes that began to take hold in the 1990s. In contrast with the history of random arrests