Queering the Racial Contract: The Exiled Homeboy and Geographic Orientation in La Mission

Queer Whiteness, the Chicana/o/x Family, and El Malinche in Quinceañera

“…Elsewhere, I have shown how the documentary Homeboy suggests that gay gang members disidentify with homophobic gangs to attain community and resistance in and through gang life (Entre Maricones y Locos). Rodríguez and I have each examined the racialized dichotomization of queer space in La Mission , and M. Cristina Alcalde has also studied this film, arguing that La Mission presents viewers with a “more multifaceted and realistic” version of Latino masculinity “than images found in mainstream media” (538). Aurelio Espinosa and Tim McNelis have each analyzed Quinceañera , with Espinosa tracing Mariology in the movie and McNelis considering how the film's score impacts characters’ “construction of identity and agency” (144).…”