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Index Activism: HIV/AIDS, 197, 219n77; U.S. LGBT, 114, 117–18. See also Sexual minority activism African: diaspora, 6, 191; men and Indian women, 147, 224n85 Agard-Jones, Vanessa, 83, 86, 214n129 Alexander, M. Jacqui, 8–9, 10, 117, 159–60, 219n81 Allen, Jafari, 71, 99, 100, 113, 117, 119, 217n59; on Cuba, 63, 66, 67, 69, 98; on sexuality, 18–19 Alvarez, Aldo, 77–78 Antiromance, 156, 157 Arenas, Reinaldo, 75–76, 104 Art, 18; as creative work and theory, 17; el secreto abierto confirmation and revelation in, 78–82 Atkinson, Ewan, 79 Atluri, Tara, 78 Backhanded re/presentation, and Caribbean trans continuum, 20–62 Báez, Jillian, 150 Banton, Buju, 212n94 Barbados, 47–48, 79–82, 151–52, 156, 204n70 Barbados Museum and Historical Society, 211n86 Batty, battyman, batty bwoy, 32, 202n23 Before Night Falls (Arenas), 76 Bejel, Emilio, 69, 100, 104 Belafonte, Harry, 185, 230n74 Bergman, Sara, 129 Béroard, Jocelyne, 142, 144–46, 159, 224n79 Berrian, Brenda, 144–45 Bildungsroman, 131 Binary gender: system, 9, 22. See also Caribbean binary gender Bisexual. See Lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender Black men: Black Stud stereotype, 168–70; violence against, 170, 228n25. See also Caribbean men, and white women Blacks: racism against, 217n60; U.S. and Caribbean , 151, 225n107; in U.S. literature, 38 Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon), 14, 52–55 Black Stud stereotype, 168–70 Black women, 48, 50, 52, 100; rape of, 165; violence against, 228n25 Blanqueamiento, 165, 166 Bleys, Rudi, 78, 211n85 Bobes, Marilyn, 108–10 Bob Marley and the Wailers, 187 “Boom Bye-Bye,” 158 Boysie, Barbadian, 166 Brana-Shute, Rosemary, 127 Brand, Dionne, 94–96, 100, 103 Breakspeare, Cindy, 188, 192, 230n85 The Brightest Star (Arenas), 75–76 Brown, Chris, 151, 225n106 Las Buenas Amigas, 114, 218n75 CAISO. See Coalition for Advancing the Inclusion of Sexual Orientation in Trinidad and Tobago Caribbean: blacks in U.S., 151, 225n107; Caribbean men and white women in history of, 162, 163; heteropatriarchy, 13, 17, 19, 122, 124, 125, 130, 159, 191–92; identity politics, 118; media and trans people treatment, 56–60; overview, 2–6, 199n1. See also Caribglobal Caribbean binary gender, 13, 19; Caribbean trans literary characters and possibilities beyond, 40–44 Caribbean body: labor, 1; overview, 2; sexual labor, 1. See also Caribbean sexuality Caribbean culture, 4. See also Caribglobal literature and popular culture Caribbean diaspora: Caribbean men and white women interracial relationships in, 177; overview, 3–6 Caribbean diaspora literature: Caribbean men and white women interracial relationships in, 163–65, 176–84, 229n51; class and money in, 179–80, 183–84 251 252 · Index Caribbean documentaries: of Caribbean same-sex desire reality, 87–90. See also specific Caribbean documentaries Caribbean film: Caribbean men and white women in, 162–64, 170–77, 194; el secreto abierto and, 76–77; white women’s sex tourism in, 162–64, 170–77. See also Caribbean documentaries; specific Caribbean films Caribbean gender, 21; structures and Caribbean women’s sexual agency, 128–31. See also Caribbean binary gender Caribbean gender conformity codes, 66–72 Caribbean gender norms, 125; in Caribbean music, 143–44, 223n69 Caribbean gender roles, 127, 170, 221n17. See also Caribbean men’s gender roles; Caribbean women’s gender roles Caribbean girls: as women, 123, 220n1. See also Caribbean women; Force-ripe Caribbean heterosexuality, 8, 69 Caribbean heterosexual women, 123–24 Caribbean homophobia, 90; myths of exponential, 82–87, 212n91–92, 212n94–95; against women, 212n91 Caribbean homosexuality: Caribbean law and, 66–72, 208n19; gay rights, 85–86, 91, 213n115–16, 214n129. See also Caribbean men’s homosexuality; Caribbean same-sex desire; Caribbean trans people Caribbean homosexuals, visibility, 65–67, 93, 97–99. See also El secreto abierto Caribbean homosexuals: in Cuban labor camps, 206n100; violence against, 83–84, 89, 98–99, 214n12, 215n20. See also Caribbean lesbians; El secreto abierto Caribbean immigrants: in Caribbean literature , 164; in global North, 177, 229n49 Caribbean law: Caribbean homosexuality and, 66–72, 208n19; trans people treatment by, 56–60, 66–72. See also Caribbean gender conformity codes Caribbean lesbian invisibility, 220n95; Caribbean literature and, 95–101, 103–10, 121; Caribbean sexual minority activism and, 94–95, 110–21; near-invisibility, 102–3, 105–10, 112, 120–22; overview, 14–15, 93–97, 120–22; el secreto abierto and, 65; trope of, 97–103 Caribbean lesbians: Caribbean women identifying as, 94–95; rape of, 84, 98, 99; sexual agency of, 123; slurs against, 101, 215n33; violence against, 84, 98–99, 214n12, 215n20. See also Caribbean homosexuals Caribbean literature: antiromance, 156...

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