About Queer Latitudes
Queer Latitudes is a feature documentary that centers the lived experiences of queer and trans migrants. Born from a research and human rights fellowship, the film brings together over 30 activists, migrants, scholars, and community leaders in Ecuador.
At its core, Queer Latitudes is about voice, memory, and the fight for dignity. It documents how LGBTQ+ people—many displaced by Venezuela’s crisis—are resisting erasure, organizing for justice, and building lives in hostile environments. These are stories of survival, but also of joy, resilience, and radical care.
Through poetry, atmosphere, and image, the film moves between the political and the intimate—weaving first-person testimonies with visual sequences that let emotion breathe. It is not just a record of what happened, but a feeling of what it is to live through it.
Through this layered approach, Queer Latitudes offers a powerful lens into how queerness, migration, and rights intersect in Latin America. It is both a call to action and a testament to what happens when people refuse to be silenced.
Why Latitudes? Because queer migration doesn’t follow a straight line. It moves across borders, identities, and languages. Queer Latitudes embraces that multiplicity and complexity—an evolving visual archive where LGBTQ+ voices lead the narrative.
Queer Latitudes exists to:
Amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ migrants, activists, and community leaders whose stories are often erased or ignored.
Document the impact of displacement, state violence, and systemic oppression across borders.
Highlight grassroots resistance, mutual aid, and queer modes of survival.
Preserve stories that challenge dominant narratives and expand how we understand borders, identity, and home.
Assert the power of radical sovereignty—the right of queer and trans people to tell their own stories, define their own futures, and exist beyond the limits imposed by nation-states, institutions, or binary frameworks.
The Team
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