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The article focuses on controversies regarding gay, lesbian and bisexual issues in counselors education. The application of "queer" theory to the field of counseling challenges the assimiliationist strategy and asks counselor educators to broaden their thinking about even the basic notions of sexuality and gender. Queer theory traverses academic disciplines; it purposely reclaims the once derogatory term "queer" to provoke discussion about how language is used to assert power and control in the culture. The article advocates a more radicalized approach to train counselors, that would encompass: significant effort on the part of counselor educators and clinical supervisors to move beyond their own disciplines to explore the myriad resources that deal with queer theories; the use of narrative texts and films that radically challenge traditional definitions of gender and sexuality; an emphasis on nontraditional approaches to therapy that promote adherence to an "ethics and practice of freedom" and reading texts "queerly," that is, with attention to themes of power and control.

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Vol. 40 Issue 1, p49-58 9p