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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Info wanted
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Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 17:13:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  6 17:13:47 1984
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A very sketchy piece of third-hand information that perhaps someone
else can elaborate on:

When I spent a summer in Mexico a couple of years back, I was told that
there was a large and relatively open gay scene in Mexico City.  I
gathered that it was rather heavily influenced by the North American
variety, centered in bars.  The people who told me about it wouldn't
have ordinarily had much sympathy for "maricones," but the cops had
recently come down on the scene so brutally as to make people side with
the gays.  The official policy toward homosexual activities had a
particularly nasty twist to it: gays could gather in their clubs and
even dance together so long as there was no physical contact; the cops
would therefore make sport of showing up in a bar to ruin everybody's
evening by waiting for the patrons to make the first move.  When they
did, out would come the billy clubs and the handcuffs.  If I remember
correctly, the gays responded with some sizable demonstrations which
people at least feared might turn violent.

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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