[CARepubGal]

"From now on, I want you all to call me Loretta!"

[janetgreen]

If Amaranta played her cards right, she could come to San Francisco and get free sex change operation if she worked there.

[joesnuffy]

Muxe ("moo-shay"), the Zapotec word for openly homosexual men and male transvestites, are valued members of society, and known for partying hard and working even harder in hair salons, clothes workshops and restaurants.

Amaranta's political ambitions bloomed in this atmosphere, inspired by the area's history of indigenous activism and its formidable women who lord it over the street markets and loll about town emanating self-confidence. The great matrons of Juchitan are the great allies of the muxe .

"God didn't bless me with a muxe ," bemoaned Amelia Martinez. "Boys and girls get married and leave home, but muxe look after their mothers for life."

But Juchitan fathers not infrequently try to beat the femininity out of their sons.

According to Amaranta: "Juchitan is not the paradise for gays that some people say, as there is homophobia. But there is less here than elsewhere."

"This is a MADHOUSE" the character Taylor..."Planet of the Apes"

[Old Professer]

Muxe ("moo-shay"), the Zapotec word for openly homosexual men and male transvestites, are valued members of society, and known for partying hard and working even harder in hair salons, clothes workshops and restaurants.

But Juchitan fathers not infrequently try to beat the femininity out of their sons.

Sounds a lot different when I rearrange the paragraphs.

The only thing I can take home from this is that the media is fascinated by the weird.