Intimatopias

Homophobic or not, there are several reasons why writers of intimatopias may actively want to distance themselves from gay fictions and identities.

In intimatopias, the love between two persons of the same sex is characterized by the ultimate intimacy they share.

To borrow and adapt Elizabeth Woledge's terminology used in her chapter, it would have to chart a number of real world and fictional intimatopias and their intersections, and actively invite challenge and point to lacunae in its own narrative and analysis to be useful.