While our society has opened his mind in the field of sexuality anyway remains a taboo subject for most Chileans. If so how is the situation today, imagine how it was in the years of political dictatorship seventy-three in the government of Augusto Pinochet, where think, feel and live in a different way to standards established in that society without democracy was synonymous with rebellion and degeneration.
In the book 'I have miedo torero' the Chilean author Peter Lemebel is disclosed a reality ignored by the world, which is the continued life of the society homosexual, reflected in 'the' protagonist, The Queen of the Corner, who comes to live in a quiet neighborhood of Santiago after living endless hardships just what it is: a transvestite, or as she calls it, a star.
stay Shortly after she meets Carlos, a young college course that asks as a favor to save boxes and alleged study sessions at home, but in reality is a member of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, and all she accepts these boards were to plan an attack against the dictator.
Gradually Loca starts to get to know Carlos, he falls madly in love with the illusion that he too could love her, so whatever he asks, she does just for him, without questions. While
to meet and her and having a vague idea of \u200b\u200btheir political leanings, Carlos becomes a hero, a knight in shining armor for her, who, thanks to this fairy tale love open your eyes, feeling the world in who lives and realizing that not everything was rosy as curtains and tablecloths home and ruthless tyrant that caused harm to where trod, likewise fails to understand that their situation was not easy for the time that was living, that the pardon was no longer accounted for as they were inside, its essence, but abroad, money and status were everything and that being gay was not the easy road, but the maze more difficult.
The term 'free will ' was not registered in the minds of those 'milicos' ruthless and less on the general, who Chile tried to bring a sort of Hitlerian government at the expense of the welfare of the people using it. Sexual options in those days were not, despite the redundancy, options, but had to be heterosexual or otherwise not counted as part of society and were treated like the worst scum that trod the earth.
In my opinion, this also had to do with that Carlos did not want to be nothing more than a friend of La Loca, as in the work parties followed that Carlos also loved, but perhaps for fear that see as a homosexual and that he discriminated against was linked not to reveal their feelings, without ignoring the fact that he belonged to the Patriotic Front and thus could face many risks and all the love he had preferred to keep their love and protect her.
why the dictatorship had much to do with homosexual love in Chile and in other countries, because with such censorship as much as feelings, thoughts, ideals and sexual choices, people who were different were it to not be silenced by all this discrimination, not to feel hatred and disgust of others who did not understand (and still do not understand) that gay love is just like any other heterosexual love and not for being different, not just because a person appeal to you or fall for another of the same sex should be tried and treated as trash, which was done in the military government, silencing the hearts and minds of those who were different.
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PD: Lean I have fear of Torero Lemebel Pedro is very buenoooo!
