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Introduction: Once sold, twice taken : a life undone -- Dream it, own it : genealogies of speculation and dispossession in the valley -- Put out : bank seizure at the poverty line -- Robbing Peter to pay Paul : relocating the middle class -- Can't work the system : the troubled sympathies of corporate bureaucrats -- We shall not be moved : the shifting moral economies of debt refusal -- You can't go home again

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Can't Be Bought or Sold? LOVE AND INTIMACY IN THE AFTERMATH OF CRISIS -- Chapter 1: "Tolerated, Not Accepted". THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF QUEER CRITIQUES -- Chapter 2: "A Normal Fag with a Job". THE COMPLICATED DESIRES OF URBAN GAYS -- Chapter 3: "Tell Me You Love Me". URBAN GAY MEN NEGOTIATE COMMODIFIED SEX -- Chapter 4: "Smarter Than You Think". SEX, DESIRE, AND LABOR AMONG HUSTLERS -- Chapter 5: "Get Off the Bus". SEX TOURISM, PATRONAGE, AND QUEER COMMODITIES -- Conclusion: Love in Crisis. THE POLITICS OF INTIMACY AND SOLIDARITY -- Notes -- References -- Index

Can't be bought or sold? Love and intimacy in the aftermath of crisis -- Tolerated, not accepted?: the historical context of queer critiques -- A normal fag with a job?: the complicated desires of urban gays -- Tell me you love me?: urban gay men negotiate commodified sex -- Smarter than you think?: sex, desire, and labor among hustlers -- Get off the bus?: sex tourism, patronage, and queer commodities -- Love in crisis: the politics of intimacy and solidarity.

AbstractCuban scholars and women's advocates have criticised the widespread emergence of sex tourism in post-Soviet Cuba and attributed prostitution to a crisis in socialist values. In response, feminist scholars in the United States and Europe have argued that Cuban analysts promote government agendas and demonise sex workers. Drawing on nineteen months of field research in Havana, I challenge this conclusion to demonstrate how queer Cubans condemn sex tourism while denouncing an unconditional allegiance to Cuban nationalism. By introducing gay Cuban critiques into the debate, I highlight the interventionist undertones of feminist scholarship on the Cuban sex trade.