I Do?: Homotopia plus shorts (Glasgow)

Yoshi falls in lust with someone he met in a park bathroom while reading Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks. Sadly, his new love interest is about to get gay married. So, Yoshi and his band of radical queers decide this wedding need not take place… Homotopia is a queer critique of the politics of ‘gay marriage’ and assimilation. Using a gritty, feminist shoot-and-run style, the film is heavily influenced by earlier political films Born in Flames and The Battle of Algiers and addresses issues of racism, colonialism, AIDS, and the role of the state.

Screening with a selection of other shorts and with a discussion on the problems associated with marriage and queerness hosted by AB Silvera with guests Etzali Hernandez and Decca Muldowney.

AB Silvera is a writer, performer and activist. Originally from Argentina, she spent over a decade in Ireland involved in feminist activism with a focus on LGBTQ women’s issues. The former editor of BoLT Magazine, Ireland’s only magazine for LGBTQ women, she now hosts 30km/s on Subcity Radio, a show that looks at the issues of the day from a sardonic, radical perspective. Etzali Hernandez is a Glasgow-based activist, working with LGBT Unity Scotland,  and We Will Rise, an organisation campaigning to shut down Dungavel Detention Centre and end Detention across the UK. Decca Muldowney is a writer and researcher with an interest in feminist and queer politics, currently studying the contemporary Middle East.

Ages 15+ only.

£4 (£3 concessions). To book tickets please use the button below. We have a number of free tickets to give away. If you can’t afford the ticket price for any reason, please email [email protected] or call 07735 273 245 to register for free entry.

Film screening with English subtitles for accessibility. Post-screening discussion BSL interpreted. The CCA is a wheelchair accessible venue: level access with an accessible toilet on same floor as screening space. To book a place for a wheelchair, please contact the venue on 0141 352 4900.

Part of SQIFF presents: I Do?, a season of films marking the one year anniversary of changes to the marriage law in Scotland. Part of BFI LOVE, in partnership with Plusnet bfi.org.uk/love.

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