Summary

In this paper, I analyze two gay love stories that had a leading role in two recent Argentinean soap operas, Farsantes and Viudas e hijos del Rock & Roll. I propose three analysis axes to think about how these stories reproduce and contest heteronormativity: talking about sex, the happy ending and the intersection between sexual orientation and social class. I attempt to read these stories not only in the gender matrix to which of each one belongs to, but also in their relationship with a specific narrative memory typical of stories about homosexuality.