Homophobia In Mexico
The study of homosexuality in Mexico can be divided into three separate periods, coinciding with the three main periods of History of Mexico, Mexican history: pre-Columbian, Colonial Mexico, colonial, and post-independence. The data on the pre-Columbian people and those of the period of colonization is scarce and obscure. Historians often described the indigenous customs that surprised them or that they disapproved of, but tended to take a position of accusation or apology, which makes it impossible to distinguish between reality and propaganda. In general, it seems that the Mexica were as homophobia, homophobic as the Spanish, and that other indigenous peoples tended to be much more tolerant, to the point of honoring Two-Spirit people as shamans. The history of homosexuality in the colonial period and after independence is still in great part yet to be studied. Above all, the 1658 executions of sodomy, sodomites and the 1901 Dance of the Forty-One, two great scandals in Mexic ...
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