Reinaldo Arenas

A Cuban author.

Palace of the White Skunks

Fortunato wants to join revolutionaries to overthrow Batista. Death spins a bicycle wheel in his backyard.

Before Night Falls

Lots of sex, including farm animals. Arenas joins Fidel Castro from Holquin. He is sent to do time in El Morro for homosexuality. He escapes Cuba on the Mariel Boatlift. He finishes his autobiography, then commits suicide.