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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- A Port of Entry -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 Inheriting the Mask -- CHAPTER 2 Peter Minshall's Sacred Heart and the Erotic Art of Play -- CHAPTER 3 Echoes of an Utterance -- CHAPTER 4 Calypso Rose's "Palet" and the Sweet Treat of Erotic Aurality -- CHAPTER 5 A Generation with AIDS -- CHAPTER 6 Between Tongue and Teeth -- CONCLUSION Black Queer Diaspora and Erotic Potentiality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The popular presumption of a particularly vicious homophobia in the anglophone Caribbean has nearly rendered (especially male) homosexuality implausible for anyone living in the region. However, Caribbean men who have sex with men (MSM) are disturbingly omnipresent in the public health discourses circulating throughout the region. These MSM are nearly always overrepresented by a subgrouping of openly gay Caribbean men. Yet the forbidding absence of Caribbean homosexuality in popular discourses and the dangerously pervasive presence of Caribbean MSM in public health discourses both indicate a failure to recognize not only the existence of decidedly gay Caribbean men but also—and more important—the work these men have been doing for three decades to survive the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This analysis sits with Friends For Life—one of the only HIV/AIDS nongovernmental organizations in the Caribbean region run by and for self-identified gay men—to see how these men have used the erotic to survive.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1. Centring Praxis -- 1. Tales from the Field: Myths and Methodologies for Researching Same Sex-Desiring People in the Caribbean -- 2. Inclusion of LGBTQ Students in Jamaican Teacher Education: Religiosity, Respectability and Resistance -- 3. Level 5: Betwixt and Between "Homophobia" in Trinidad and Tobago -- Part 2. Queering the Spiritual, Queering the Artistic -- 4. I Am a Messenger: Spiritual Baptism and the Queer Afterlife of Faith -- 5. A Symphony in Four Movements: Religion, Syphilis and Homosexuality in Marlon James's -- 6. The Sodom of the New World: A Queer Claim to Historical Belonging -- 7. Iconicity and Eroticism in the Photography of Archie Lindo -- 8. Brave "Battymen" and the (Im)Possibilities of a Straight Dancehall -- Part 3. Telling Stories, Finding Self -- 9. In Search of the Dead: (Un)Marked Graves and the Sea of We -- 10. "What a Writer Is": A Presentation Given at the Beyond Homophobia Conference -- 11. "Hey Lara" -- Part 4. Activism and Action -- 12. Toward a Working-Class Queer Agenda and Leadership in Jamaica -- 13. Pride, Vulgarity and Imagination -- 14. So: Queer Life Beyond and Against Homophobia -- Afterword -- Contributors.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. Black/Queer Rhizomatics -- CHAPTER 2. The Whiter the Bread, the Quicker You're Dead -- CHAPTER 3. Troubling the Waters -- CHAPTER 4. Gender Trouble in Triton -- CHAPTER 5. Reggaetón's Crossings -- CHAPTER 6. I Represent Freedom -- CHAPTER 7. To Transcender Transgender -- CHAPTER 8. Toward A Hemispheric Analysis of Black Lesbian Feminist Activism and Hip Hop Feminism -- CHAPTER 9. The Body Beautiful -- CHAPTER 10. Black Sissy Masculinity and the Politics of Dis-respectability -- CHAPTER 11. Let's Play -- CHAPTER 12. Black Gay (Raw) Sex -- CHAPTER 13. Black Data -- CHAPTER 14. Boystown -- CHAPTER 15. Beyond the Flames -- CHAPTER 16. The Strangeness of Progress and the Uncertainty of Blackness -- CHAPTER 17. Re-membering Audre -- CHAPTER 18. On the Cusp of Deviance -- CHAPTER 19. Something Else to Be -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX