Cuban
TransCuba
A stunning new solo show of work from New York based photographer Mariette Pathy Allen is currently on view at the Yeelen Gallery in Miami’s Little Haiti district. The Exhibition is titled TransCuba as it is a collection of some 30 vibrant images that Allen took of the transgender community in Cuba. Allen’s work…
His Wedding Dress
This debut feature from newbie Cuban filmmaker Marilyn Solaya is a grim tale about a transsexual’s relationship with a naive straight man back in the country’s dark days of 1994 before the President’s daughter Mariela Castro started to champion equal rights and tolerance for the LGBT community. This particular story is based on a real life one…
The Last Match
It’s still very tough and even quite dangerous being gay in some places, none more so than in the oppressive machismo society of Cuba. So when two male teenage best friends acknowledge their attraction to each other, life starts to get very complicated for them, and we have the sense from the outset that it…
Balseros
After the USSR fell apart, the Soviets could no longer prop up the fragile economy in Cuba and in August 1994 after a group of dissidents failed to hijack a Ferry in Havana there were unprecedented near riots in the City. Castro addressed the unruly mob and to quell their anger he announced that the…
