The Role of Popular Culture for Queer Teen Identities’ Formation in Netflix’s Sex Education

Queer teenagers are avid readers of popular culture; as numerous audience studies prove, television plays a significant role in identity-formation for LGBTIQ+ youth, providing them with the information about sexuality, gender roles or non-normative relationships usually unavailable in their educatio...

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Autores: Vázquez Rodríguez, Lucía Gloria, García Ramos, Francisco José, Zurián Hernández, Adelino Francisco
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2021
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositório:Docta Complutense
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spelling The Role of Popular Culture for Queer Teen Identities’ Formation in Netflix’s Sex EducationVázquez Rodríguez, Lucía GloriaGarcía Ramos, Francisco JoséZurián Hernández, Adelino Francisco007:654316.77Gender identityIdentity formationLGBTIQ+ mediaPopular cultureQueerSex EducationTeensComunicación audiovisualComunicación social6308 Comunicaciones SocialesQueer teenagers are avid readers of popular culture; as numerous audience studies prove, television plays a significant role in identity-formation for LGBTIQ+ youth, providing them with the information about sexuality, gender roles or non-normative relationships usually unavailable in their educational and home environments. In this article we analyze how some of the protagonists of Netflix’s TV show Sex Education (2019-present) utilize popular culture as a tool to explore their desires, forbidden fantasies, and gender expressions, becoming instrumental in the formation of their queer identities in a way that metatextually reflects the role LGBTIQ+ shows play for their audiences. Such is the case of Adam, a bisexual teenager that masturbates to the image of a fictional actor featured in a 1980s action film poster; Lily, whose sexual fantasies of role playing with alien creatures are strongly influenced by spatial sci-fi; and Ola, whose onyric universe is influenced by David Bowie’s genderbending aesthetics. However, the most representative example of how popular culture influences the formation of queer identities is Eric, whose non-conforming gender expression follows the example set by the trans characters in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.CogitatioUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20212021-09-1320212021-09-13journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/4431reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Españolspaopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Atribución 3.0 Españahttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/44312026-06-02T12:44:21Z
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title The Role of Popular Culture for Queer Teen Identities’ Formation in Netflix’s Sex Education
spellingShingle The Role of Popular Culture for Queer Teen Identities’ Formation in Netflix’s Sex Education
Vázquez Rodríguez, Lucía Gloria
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316.77
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Identity formation
LGBTIQ+ media
Popular culture
Queer
Sex Education
Teens
Comunicación audiovisual
Comunicación social
6308 Comunicaciones Sociales
title_short The Role of Popular Culture for Queer Teen Identities’ Formation in Netflix’s Sex Education
title_full The Role of Popular Culture for Queer Teen Identities’ Formation in Netflix’s Sex Education
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García Ramos, Francisco José
Zurián Hernández, Adelino Francisco
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García Ramos, Francisco José
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Identity formation
LGBTIQ+ media
Popular culture
Queer
Sex Education
Teens
Comunicación audiovisual
Comunicación social
6308 Comunicaciones Sociales
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316.77
Gender identity
Identity formation
LGBTIQ+ media
Popular culture
Queer
Sex Education
Teens
Comunicación audiovisual
Comunicación social
6308 Comunicaciones Sociales
description Queer teenagers are avid readers of popular culture; as numerous audience studies prove, television plays a significant role in identity-formation for LGBTIQ+ youth, providing them with the information about sexuality, gender roles or non-normative relationships usually unavailable in their educational and home environments. In this article we analyze how some of the protagonists of Netflix’s TV show Sex Education (2019-present) utilize popular culture as a tool to explore their desires, forbidden fantasies, and gender expressions, becoming instrumental in the formation of their queer identities in a way that metatextually reflects the role LGBTIQ+ shows play for their audiences. Such is the case of Adam, a bisexual teenager that masturbates to the image of a fictional actor featured in a 1980s action film poster; Lily, whose sexual fantasies of role playing with alien creatures are strongly influenced by spatial sci-fi; and Ola, whose onyric universe is influenced by David Bowie’s genderbending aesthetics. However, the most representative example of how popular culture influences the formation of queer identities is Eric, whose non-conforming gender expression follows the example set by the trans characters in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
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