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In the beginning of the “Political and Cultural Cross Dressing” Risech writes that, “As we continually cross and recross the boundaries between these communities, we find we cannot wear all our ‘identity wardrobe’ simultaneously, since it can make us too ‘hot’: there are strict taboos or high costs associated with presenting oneself in certain kinds of ‘garb.” (430) Risech was born into a family that fled from Cuba when Risech was five years old. Risech often had to disguise himself in different ways of “dressing.” Risech became very nervous that people would see that he was a homosexual man. “As an adolescent and young adult, I understood those rules well, and therefore cloaked my emerging sexual desire for other men beneath an intricately tailored suit that read unequivocally as heterosexuality” Risech changes the way he