Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 11:45:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: "John R. Keene" <jrk4k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu>

Dear Mr. Buckmire (Ron) & Everyone Else:

Thanks for the message. I just wanted to reply by saying that there are 
some really interesting gay & lesbian Caribbean writers out there, but 
you have to scour the bookshelves to find them.

Makeda Silvera is a Jamaican lesbian whose "Remembering G and other 
Stories" appeared in 1991 from Sister Vision Press.  She has also edited 
an anthology of radical women of color.

Thomas Glave is also a Jamaican, now living in New York, who demonstrates 
tremendous lyrical gifts in both poetry and prose.  His work has appeared 
in _Sojourner_, _Callaloo_, _Cottonwood_, and other journals and anthologies.

Marlene Nourbese Phillip may or may not be lesbian/bi/trans/poly, but her 
work does touch on and engage gay & lesbian issues.  Unfortunately, I 
cannot remember the titles of her various books, but she has garnered a 
number of awards and prizes for her fiction.

Also, Rosa Guy (_The Friends_) and Paule Marshall (_Browngirl, 
Brownstone_, _The Timeless Place, The Chosen People_, _Praisesong for the 
Widow_) both include gay themes in their works.  
`
There are Caribbean gays & lesbians writing in Spanish, French, and 
Kreyol/Creole, I'm sure, but I'd need to check up on some of these 
writers before I list their names.  

Please let me know about any other writers out there, and I'll do the same.

JOHN KEENE, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903
jrk4k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu