The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the portrayal of queer characters and specifically trans and non-binary identities in dystopian fictions in Latin America. Through this lens I examine how the varying portrayals of gender and sexuality in Julio Hernández Cordón’s 2018 Mexican film, Cómprame un revólver, and Rita Indiana’s 2015 Dominican novel, La mucama de Omicunlé, at times play into patriarchal and cis-gendered, heteronormative conceptions and how, at other times, they combat these hegemonic narratives. This thesis argues that dystopian settings help construct warnings about what the future may hold while also creating a space to theorize narratives about resisting rigid constructs of gender and sexuality. Cómprame un revólver imagines drug trafficking as the newest articulation of continued colonial domination in Mexico. La mucama de Omicunlé engages with decoloniality to showcase and uplift queer identities, though it is set in a dystopian future where ecological crises have all but destroyed the Caribbean and the world. In both works, trans and nonbinary characters interface directly with the dystopian setting as they challenge the suppositions and attitudes that continue to impose a heteronormative, colonial mindset upon them.