Becoming Reinaldo ArenasBecoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (19431990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame. Yet as a political dissident and an openly gay man, Arenas also experienced discrimination and persecution; he produced much of his work amid political controversy and precarious living conditions. In 1980, having survived ostracism and incarceration in