Marguerite Rose Jiménez, Senior Associate for Cuba, Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)Įmily J. Kirk is a scholar anyone interested in Cuba will want to keep an eye on now and for many years to come. With her nuanced and thoughtful insights, extraordinarily well-informed perspective, and eloquent writing style, Kirk’s work will make an invaluable contribution to how scholars, students, and advocates think about issues of gender, sexuality, politics, and the evolution of the Cuban revolution. Antoni Kapcia, University of Nottingham As a result, we are given a genuinely fresh look at a much-contested subject, and one that seeks to locate it all within the ideological map of post-1959 Cuba. If ever a topic needed clarifying and objective analysis in our understanding of contemporary Cuba (so often the subject of distorting polemic), it is the subject of this invaluable study, which-with its imaginative and astute focus on health-goes to the heart of the often misunderstood but constantly evolving Cuban attitudes toward LGBT issues.