In many ways sexuality has been a hidden subject in postcolonial studies, and particularly silent in relation to same-sex loving and the politics of queer identities. Indeed, while discussions of same sex loving remain socially explosive in many postcolonial societies, the aftershock has not really disturbed the terms on which conversations about ‘difference’ unfold in postcolonial theoretical discourse. Recently a small flurry of publications has attempted to correct this imbalance (Patton and Sánchez-Eppler 2000; Hawley 2001; Gopinath 2005). However, in relation to the Caribbean any such shift in perspectives has been obscured by the relentless focus on the dancehall debate and the powerful equivalence that is implied between Caribbean sexuality and homophobia as a consequence. This is especially frustrating given that the fifteen year period during which the attention-grabbing dancehall battle has raged, has also marked the emergence of small but significant body of literary works that explore Caribbean sexuality and offer new terms for an understanding of sexuality and also of ‘difference’, a concept central to the intellectual labour of postcolonial studies and especially to theorisations of the Caribbean as an almost utopian syncretic, fluid and heterogeneous space. This paper will discuss works by writers such as Audre Lorde, Dionne Brand and Shani Mootoo in order to examine the interface between sexual representations and rights in Caribbean women’s fiction and poetry.