La Jornada has a fortnightly sexuality lift out that this week featured a double spread about intersexuality. http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/05/07/ls-cara.html
This edition also featured a 'chapter' from Eduardo Galeno's new book 'Espejos' / Mirrors. It's called 'The Devil is a Homosexual' and it went something like this.
'Excluding the reign of the Aztecs and the Incas, the homosexuals were free in America. The Spanish conqueror Vasco Núnez de Balboa hurled starving dogs to the Indians showing this abnormality with total normality. He believed homosexuality was contagious. Five centuries after, I listened to Archbishop of Montevideo say the same thing.
The historian Richard Nixon knew that this vice was fatal for civilization. Nixon "You know what happened to the Greeks? Homosexuality destroyed them! For sure Aristotle was a homo. Everyone knows it. And also Socrates. And you know that is what happened with the Romans?"
The civilized Adolf Hitler had taken drastic measures to save Germany from this danger. The degenerates guilty of this perverse crime against nature were obliged to wear a pink triangle. How many died in the concentration camps? They do not know. In the year of 2001, the German government resolved to rectify the exclusion of homosexuality among the holocaust victims.
More than half a century passed away before there was a correction of this omission.
Saffo: continued Galeano,
Little is known of Saffo.
They say she was born 2,600 years ago in the island of lesbos, and that because of her they gave the name lesbians.
They say she married, had one boy child that she threw off a cliff because a sailor did not give her due attention. They say she was slight and ugly. Who knows.
The machos do not take well that women prefer other women, instead of succumbing to our irresistible charms.
In the year 1703 the Catholic Church, bastion of male power, sent all the books of Saffo to the fire. Some poems, only some, have been salvaged.
Leonardo: In his 20th year, the guards of public morale, the watchmen of the night, they plucked Leonardo from the workshop of teacher Verrocchio and they hurled him into jail.
Two months there, without sleep, without breath, terrorized by the threat of the stake. The price of homosexuality was fire and one anonymous denunciation would have the accused within it.
Leonardo was absolved for lack of evidence and he returned to to his life.
And he painted expert works, almost all unfinished, that in the history of art, excelled.
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