Representación de la homosexualidad en las telenovelas colombianas "Betty la fea" y "Enfermeras

Abstract

The soap opera is the most important media cultural product in Latin America, a subject of which it’s pertinent to open new debates oriented to the LGBT issue, for which the soap opera and the discourses of homosexuality must be related. The issues related to this social group are in constant cultural and academic debate, given this, the soap opera has assumed part of this social debate, making homosexuality visible outside the stereotypes of sin, evil, abnormality that have been present over time in Latin America. The objective of the research is to compare the narratives of homosexuality in the Colombian soap operas "Yo soy Betty, la fea" and "Enfermeras", for which it is intended from the perspective of communication, social sciences, homosexuality and soap opera, carry out an analysis of gender discourse, linked to a qualitative approach that allows to understand the changes presented by the representation of homosexuality in Colombian soap operas, which have in their plot at least one gay character that is the object of analysis, to obtain the required results from those. It's concluded that the representation of homosexuality in telenovelas, after 20 years, has had a change, because the gay is no longer shown as the effeminate, nor that person capable of assuming roles considered socially as feminine, on the contrary, now his social circle cannot detect if he is homosexual, now he is cautious and reserved about his sexual orientation.