Flaming Souls

Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Social Change in Barbados

Bibliographic Data

ID19904550
AuthorsD A B Murray (0000-0002-2778-1877, corresponding author)
Year2012
Publication date2012-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFlaming Souls (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.3138/9781442660687
OpenAlexW401466874
ISBN9781442660687
LanguageEN
Citations received14

While there has been increased attention to issues of sexuality in the Caribbean over the past decade, there continue to be very few in-depth ethnographic studies of sexual minorities in this region. A timely addition to the literature, Flaming Souls explores public discourses focusing on homosexuality and the everyday lives of gay men and ‘queens’in contemporary Barbados.David A.B. Murray's dynamic study features interviews with government and health agency officials, HIV/AIDS activists, and residents of the country's capital, Bridgetown. Using these and records from local libraries and archives, Murray unravels the complex historical, social, political, and economic forces through which same-sex desire, identity, and prejudice are produced and valued in this Caribbean nation-state. Illustrating the influence of both Euro-American and regional gender and sexual politics on sexual diversity in Barbados, Flaming Souls makes an important contribution to queer studies and the anthropology of sexualities

Archaeology · Art · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Sociology · Table of contents · Tourism · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Virology

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