Audiovisual productions consumption and gender and sexual orientation constitution by non-cisheterosexual persons

Abstract

Abstract Sexes, genders, and sexual orientations are social products that influence as much as they are influenced by audiovisual content. The aim of this research was to investigate consumption of social audiovisual technologies of sexuality and gender by persons who do not recognize themselves as cisheterosexual. Fifteen persons participated in this research through semi-structured interviews via Google Meet. The answers were organized into three categories (Identifying aspects; Communicational aspects; Consumption aspects) from a thematic content analysis and were analyzed based on Teresa De Lauretis’ arguments. The main results highlighted the tensions between dependencies and resistances that produce participants’ gender identifications and sexual orientations in the consumption of audiovisual productions.