"Highly recommended." - E. Pappas (Choice) "Part history and part ethnography, Lyndon K. Gill’s <i>Erotic Islands</i> offers an innovative approach to nascent and long-established fields such as black diaspora studies and anthropology, correspondingly. Scholars of Caribbean studies or queer studies will likewise benefit from <i>Erotic Islands</i>." - Alejandro Stephano Escalante (ASAP/Journal) "Reading <i>Erotic Islands</i> is a sensual exercise. The chapters, organized based on the senses, visual, aural and tactile engagement in art and activism, are punctuated by excerpts from Gill’s field diaries, also rich with sensory descriptions. . . . The text successfully engages the reader on multiple levels. <i>Erotic Islands</i> provides rich and provocative explorations of same-sex desire and instructions for applying the erotic lens, while making invaluable contribution to deeper understandings of the queer Caribbean." - Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan (Anthropos) <p>“I celebrate this book for resisting dominant imaginings of paradise and refuting the idea that the region is unlivable for same-sex-desiring persons. This work takes seriously the spaces of our Queer Caribbean lives with caring analysis.”</p> - Angelique V. Nixon (GLQ) “Some ethnographers are griots who rely on ethnography to reveal certain truths about the world. Lyndon Gill is one such scholar. Attentive to the transformative power of language, story-telling, and multiple registers of world-making, he reveals the power of ‘eros as a lens, vital for surveying the elaborate topography of connections we share as political, sensual, and spiritual beings’ (p. 11).” - Ana-Maurine Lara (Asian Journal of Social Science) “<i>Erotic Islands</i> is a thought-provoking text that offers integral concepts to queer, diaspora, Black, and Caribbean studies. It is a pivotal tool that excavates the dynamism of queer Caribbean efforts toward recognition, safety, and autonomy.” - Sabia McCoy-Torres (Transforming Anthropology)