Assisto, logo existo: a representação da identidade LGBT na trama do personagem Eric da série Sex Education, da Netflix

Abstract

This study seeks to propose discussions on the ways that marginalized groups are represented in the media. Working on the image of the LGBT identity, we seek as a general objective of this work to understand how the representation of the LGBT identity is built from the plot of the character Eric, from the Netflix series Sex Education. Therefore, discussions on themes such as identity, language and culture are proposed in texts by Hall (1997) and Woodward (2000). We also address concepts such as body, center and margin groups and their presence in the communications media, bringing terms such as compulsory heterosexuality, heteronormativity and cultural pedagogies, from Junqueira (2015), Colling (2015), Berté & Tourinho (2014), Kotler (2017) and Campos (2013). As methodological approach, we worked with the analysis of moving images from Rose (2002), along with the determination of three categories of analysis: clothing, performance and dialogues. It was possible to realize that the Sex Education’s plot forms itself into four stages, showing the phases of the construction of a subject's identity, as well as Eric's. We have also concluded that the plot, besides from being representative as a communicational content, also illustrates the importance of representation for providing identity reference to subjects.