The Queering critical perspectives propose to study, in the light of the gender studies, literary works which do not seem to lend themselves to it a priori. In this theoretical article, it will be a question of sketching out a “reading politic” (Hamel) which limits neither the interpretations that can be drawn from a text, nor the texts that can be the object of this interpretation. In short, I propose that queer theory has an affinity with the reader-response theories (Lambert and Lapointe). Inspired by queer studies, deconstruction and the reader-response approach, I will propose to “versatilize the gender” (Michaud) by thinking beyond the masculine / feminine opposition (which literary texts do themselves very often). The corpus of this article is composed of works about "queering", a critical approach less known in the French-speaking world, that aim to "queer" certain texts. I will show that an attention paid to gender and sexual difference as constructed by the texts leads me to consider the relationship between politics and literature in a different way. I propose, as an example, an "actualizing reading" (Citton) of the novel Satan Belhumeur, published in 1981 by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu. Careful reading of the construction of gender in this novel allows for an unprecedented interpretation of the political dimension of the work, making it possible to argue that the final scene of the novel aims to "resign from nation and gender" (Preciado).