Out of the shadows: Striking pictures of transgender Cubans shed light on struggles and triumphs of the communist country's oppressed LGBT community
By SNEJANA FARBEROV PUBLISHED: 02:20, 6 June 2014
For transgender Cubans, life on the Island of Freedom has long been a struggle - a daily battle against poverty and entrenched discrimination.
But as a new book of photographs titled TransCuba shows, there is now a light at the end of the tunnel for the island's fledgling LGBT community.
Mariette Pathy Allen, a New York-based artist and photographer, has spent the past 35 years documenting and advocating for transgender people in U.S.
In 2012, Allen attended a symposium in Cuba about transgender identify and culture organized by Mariela Castro Espin, head of the Cuba National Center of Sex Education - and the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro.
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