title: Journeying together.
abstract: SUMMARY Three women faculty from different disciplines assert the necessity of initiating a process to confront silence and create voice in order to address heterosexism and homophobia in the classroom. One advocates for the feminist construct of a consciously positional and political voice to improve students' sensitivity to multiculturalism in regard to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people (LGBT). Another proposes a process of locating sexual orientation in the wider issues of sexuality and gender constructions, in order to form different assumptions and starting points. A third one challenges faculty members and students to accept that recognizing their own heterosexism and homophobia is the first step in the process of confronting and transforming what they fear.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Languages and Literatures , University of Denver , 2000 E. Asbury Avenue , Denver , CO , 80208 , USA.
authors.forename: Frédérique
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chevillot
authors.forename: Susan S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Manning
authors.forename: Paula D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Nesbitt
keywords: Multiculturalism; fear; heterosexism; homophobia; lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered (LGBT); teaching strategies