- 542 - Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi The Journal of International Social Research Cilt: 10 Sayı: 49 Volume: 10 Issue: 49 Nisan 2017 April 2017 www.sosyalarastirmalar.com Issn: 1307-9581 MARGINALIZATION OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION IN COMMUNAL LIVING AND ANALYSIS OF THE “ZENNE’’ FILM AS A SAMPLE İsmail BALIKÇIOĞLU * Kamil KANIPEK ** Şerife İNCİRLİLİ *** Tutku AKTER **** Abstract In communal living, sexual orientation is exposed to both exclusion and marginalization especially because of the patriarchal communal organization. It may be said that the ones named as homosexuals and have different sexual orientation encounter many difficulties in their daily life arising from the reason of the obdurate stance of the paternalistic structure in respect of the communal gender identity. If the media tools are thought as broadcasting with the perspective of patriarchy, as Neumann’s Spiral of Silence Model, the individuals who are not supported by the media will stop speaking and hold their tongue as they think that their thoughts will not be accepted in communal platform and they may be excluded as they are in minority. It is seemed that the homosexuals who are not supported by the media tools and reflected with their negative sides, are handled within the frame of the man dominated ideology when regarding movies. The cinema, which is one of the media tools that has an influence on human standpoint, may marginalize the homosexual individuals and might give rise to the homosexuals to be perceived as contrarian to the communal values. Within this scope, the sexist and marginalized discourses found in the movies as well as the communal resources of the discourses will be studied with the critical discourse analysis. Keywords: Cinema, Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, Marginalization, Paternalistic Community, Sexual Identity. 1. Introduction The marginalization notion may be thought as differentiation and acting of it. The meaning of the marginalization is the exclusion from the society and the rejection of these individuals. As Nahya (2011) said, many people, group or community produce variable clichés and jurisdictions in reference to the ones who are defined as not being within themselves as to exclude a person or a few ones, a group or a nation with the aim of distracting themselves from the stated ones with keeping distance and making dissimilar. The exclusion is in existence in almost all communities but it can become much more apparent when regarding the Turkish community especially on the ones with unusual gender identities. It is because of the changing community respecting social-cultural structure and daily life living conditions. It may be rise from the reason of the strict values and rules of the communities as well. These rules are sometimes associated with the traditions, customs or morals even if they are not in written form. As Kaya’s claim (2011), on the other hand, under the skin of the marginalization, there are some reasons such as finding no any solutions to the unemployment, poverty, inequity as well as seeing these people in this category as a threatening factor regarding their potency. In addition to these, making out these people as minatory groups regarding their representative region as to legalize their sovereignty underlies the marginalization. The patriarchal mentality manifests itself in individuals’ daily life. As Mora said (2012), “the patriarchal community structure existence and its organization besides the prevalence of the monotheistic religion; the deepening hierarchical duality of the ancient Greek (spirit-body) and the Christianity (spirit- material); assimilation of the woman with the body and communal countenance on woman’s body are all legitimated” (para.: 6). * (MSc), (PhD in Progress), Girne American University, Faculty of Communication. ** (MSc), (PhD in Progress), Girne American University, Faculty of Communication. *** (MSc), (PhD in Progress), Girne American University, Faculty of Humanities, North Cyprus. **** Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, North Cyprus.