Among other things, education must be a space of citizenship and respect for human rights, which has been leading to curricular discussions on the inclusion of minority groups. Among these groups are the gender groups represented by feminists, gays and lesbians. In Brazil, there are a lot of studies about women's exclusion, but few educational studies about sexual diversity. This educational gap is probably caused by predominant and excluding essentialist propositions in the concepts used to think about gender and sexual identities. Some forms of resistance pointed out by this article are the possibility of including gender studies in teacher education courses, the critical analysis of gender and sexual representations produced by the media and the experimentation of new forms of language that could deconstruct binary and excluding identity structures like the man-woman and the heterosexual-homosexual structures, produced by educational discourse.
Gender; Sexual diversity; Exclusion; Education