Homotopia

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| name = Homotopia

| image = Homotopia FilmPoster.jpeg

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| director = Eric Stanley
Chris Vargas

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| writer = Eric Stanley
Chris Vargas

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| released = {{Film date|2007|05|19|Inside/Out Toronto
Gay and Lesbian Film Festival}}

| runtime = 27 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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Homotopia is a short film by Eric A. Stanley and Chris E. Vargas in 2007. The film addresses the politics of gay marriage, assimilation{{Citation |last1=Stanley |first1=Eric |title=Homotopia |date=2007-05-19 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1057910/ |type=Short, Drama |publisher=TKRC |access-date=2022-05-13 |last2=Vargas |first2=Chris}} and highlights issues such as racism, colonialism, HIV/AIDS, and the state.

Plot

Yoshi, the protagonist, falls in love with someone he meets in a park bathroom while reading Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks. Sadly, his new love interest is about to marry another man. Yoshi and his friends decide to stop the wedding from happening.{{Cite web |date=2016-01-30 |title=Film Review: Homotopia and other shorts |url=https://qmunicatemagazine.com/2016/01/30/film-review-homotopia-and-other-shorts/ |access-date=2022-05-13 |website=qmunicatemagazine.com |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808101744/https://qmunicatemagazine.com/2016/01/30/film-review-homotopia-and-other-shorts/ |url-status=dead }}

Cast

Jason Fritz Michael, a San Francisco-based performance/visual artist
Susan Withans, a gender illusionist
Kentaro J. Kaneko, also known for his work in Gay Shame
Ralowe T. Ampu, former member of Deep Dickollective
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Sequel

A sequel to Homotopia was created in 2013, titled Criminal Queers. The film is a "Prison-Break style comedy," meant as a commentary on the American prison system and its oppression of LGBTQ people.{{Cite web |title=The Filmmakers Behind 'Criminal Queers' Explain Why "Queer Liberation is Prison Abolition" |url=https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-filmmakers-behind-criminal-queers-explain-why-queer-liberation-is-priso |access-date=2022-05-13 |website=In These Times |date=26 June 2015 |language=en}} Angela Davis makes a cameo appearance in the sequel.{{Cite web |date= |title=Criminal Queers |url=https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/media/WORK_000424.html |access-date=February 4, 2025 |website=Transgender Media Portal}}