Summary

 
The TV show Cárcel de Mujeres (TVN, 2007-2008) constitutes a paradigmatic case for understanding the progressive incorporation of non-heterosexual characters on the Chilean screen during the 21st century. This audiovisual creation, broadcast at night and with a successful rating, included the most significant number of lesbian and bisexual characters visible in national television fiction to date. The general objective is to expose rare visions of sex-dissident corporeality hidden in dominant narratives. From an audiovisual narrative perspective, this article describes the types of representations, plots, and sex-affective relationships in which ten lesbians -butch and femme characters- are involved in TV shows. The research reveals the lesbophobic discourses that build a fiction that associates these sexual dissident women with criminality and perverse sexuality through an aesthetic that consolidates the figure of the dark lesbian. The critical analysis of these characters contributes to building an archive of queer sexualities from a local and south temporality.