Our Caribbean : a gathering of lesbian and gay writing from the Antilles / edited and with an introduction by Thomas Glave.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: Desire through the Archipelago / Thomas Glave -- Lulú or the metamorphosis / José Alcántara Almánzar -- Property values / Aldo Alvarez -- Eroticism / Reinaldo Arenas -- Three poems: Saturday night in San Juan with the right sailors ; Almost a revolution for two in bed ; Tropical fever / Rane Arroyo -- Three poems: Transactions ; San Francisco--New Orleans ; The image saves / Jesús J. Barquet -- Somebody has to cry / Marilyn Bobes -- Elizete, beckoned / Dionne Brand -- "Bullers" and "battymen": contesting homophobia in black popular culture and contemporary Caribbean literature / Timothy S. Chin -- Ecce homo / Michelle Cliff -- History, (Re)memory, testimony, and biomythography: charting a Buller man's Trinidadian past / Wesley E.A. Crichlow -- Other islanders on Lesbos: a retrospective look at the history of lesbians in Cuba / Mabel Cuesta -- Autonomy in lesbian-feminist politics / Ochy Curiel -- Three poems: Young faggot ; The magical real ; Surrender / Faizal Deen -- The portrait / Pedro de Jesús -- Tante Merle / R. Erica Doyle -- Whose Caribbean?: an allegory, in part / Thomas Glave -- More notes on the invisibility of Caribbean lesbians / Rosamond S. King -- Independence Day letter / Helen Klonaris -- De un pájaro las dos alas: travel notes of a queer Puerto Rican in Havana / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes -- Of generators and survival: Hugo letter ; from Zami: a new spelling of my name / Audre Lorde -- Out on Main Street / Shani Mootoo -- Time and tide / Anton Nimblett -- We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this? / Achy Obejas -- The hunter / Leonardo Padura Fuentes -- The face / Virgilio Piñera -- Dale and Ian / Patricia Powell -- Genesis / Kevin Everod Quashie -- Bayamón, Brooklyn y yo / Juanita Ramos -- The mechanic / Colin Robinson -- Haiti: a memory journey / Assotto Saint -- Johnnie, London, 1960 / Andrew Salkey -- I want to follow my friend / Lawrence Scott -- Man royals and sodomites: some thoughts on the invisibility of Afro-Caribbean lesbians / Makeda Silvera -- Jerome / H. Nigel Thomas -- Fragments of Toronto's black queer community: from a life still being lived / Rinaldo Walcott -- Mati-ism and black lesbianism: two idealtypical expressions of female homosexuality in black communities of the diaspora / Gloria Wekker -- On homophobia and gay rights activism in Jamaica / Lawson Williams.

Lambda Literary Award, 2009: LGBT Anthologies.