ABSTRACT
In education today, embracing diversity is an imperative. Yet, the language classroom still draws most of its material from heteronormative narratives. This chapter presents how to integrate LGBT perspectives in the French language classroom, using a cinema class to illustrate methods and resources to challenge the heteronormative framing of identity. Through films such as Ma vie en rose, Tomboy, and Laurence Anyways, students discuss representations of gender and sexuality in the French-speaking world. Four-skills activities analyze gendered social constructions and cross-cultural comparisons of the LGBT community in the French-speaking world, placing special emphasis on French as a gendered language
