ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author offers several approaches and strategies that he hope are instructive for those interested in introducing or expanding queer content in their Francophone classrooms. He proposes structures, methods, and content that he found useful and engaging as well as a short entree into the historical dimension of queer studies in France with, what he hope to be, useful resources for further exploration and use. Inheritor of a grassroots genealogy, queer theory and queer studies emerged in the United States out of a feminist as well as gender and sexual non-conforming militancy dissatisfied and disillusioned with the neoliberal and commercial bent of the gay and lesbian identity-based politics of the late 1980 and early 1990s. To be sure, queer studies is an anarchist and anti-heteronormative response to the blunt, political rhetoric and mostly white activist bodies that populated the contemporary LGBT landscape. In France, the advancement of queer studies has been sluggish for several reasons.
