At Les Universit\u00e9s d\u2019\u00c9t\u00e9 de la France Insoumise in Valence, several militant teachers and activists openly confessed to covert strategies to introduce LGBT identities into school environments. Julia Torlet, president of SOS Homophobie and high school classics teacher, acknowledged that though political expression is officially banned in classrooms, they find ways to \u201ccheat\u201d\u2014through symbols, behavior, or subtly infused content\u2014to influence students beyond overt statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Torlet admitted she never explicitly tells her students she is lesbian, yet she wears rainbow shoelaces, dresses in ways that signal support, and uses equality referents in schools as a pathway to make LGBT identities visible. She discussed using the \u201cr\u00e9f\u00e9rents \u00e9galit\u00e9\u201d positions in schools to deepen influence and make identity politics harder to detect but still present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n