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Welcome to Fairyland - Queer Miami before 1940 (Hardcover)
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Welcome to Fairyland - Queer Miami before 1940 (Hardcover)
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Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a
wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed as an
international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual
difference. As Julio Capo Jr. shows in this fascinating history,
Miami's transnational connections reveal that the city has been a
queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami's queer
past from its 1896 founding through World War II, Capo shows the
multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their
own. Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capo unearths the
forgotten history of ""fairyland,"" a marketing term crafted by
boosters that held multiple meanings for different groups of
people. In viewing Miami as a contested colonial space, he turns
our attention to migrants and immigrants, tourism, and trade to and
from the Caribbean - particularly the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti - to
expand the geographic and methodological parameters of urban and
queer history. Recovering the world of Miami's old saloons,
brothels, immigration checkpoints, borders, nightclubs, bars, and
cruising sites, Capo makes clear how critical gender and sexual
transgression is to understanding the city and the broader region
in all its fullness.
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