A cultural overview of LGBTI identities in cinema: The Zenne movie and viewer comments

In this thesis study, the place of representations of sexual minority (LGBTİ identities) in social life in Turkey and influence of these representations in Turkish cinema on the audiences is researched by exemplifying the Turkish movie called Zenne. In the study, it is concluded that the negative perception towards the individuals who have LGBTI identities in the representations of identity created by the society in the cultural context and woven with the meaning network, continues. Users who comment Zenne on platforms where user generated content is cretated, agree that individuals who have LGBTI identities will continue to be excluded humiliated and even exposed to violence unless there is a social transformation to embrace these induivduals in Turkey. Keywords: Identity, LGBTİ, Gender, Culture, Turkish Cinema, the Zenne/Dancer Movie, Interpretive Theory of Culture, Ethnography of Speaking,Netnography