By Robert McKee Irwin
On November 17, 1901, Mexico urban police raided a personal get together and arrested forty-one males, half whom have been dressed as ladies. Clandestine transvestite balls weren't remarkable at the moment, and a raid wouldn't regularly achieve nationwide recognition. although, Mexican cultural developments in literature, artwork, the sciences, and in journalism have been inciting an environment of sexual interest that used to be looking for the ideal flip of occasions to ignite a discursive explosion and concentration curiosity on what was once no longer a brand new phenomenon, yet what used to be approximately to develop into a brand new proposal: homosexuality. The editors deal with the "nefarious" ball as a cultural occasion in itself and feature assembled photos, together with the recognized engravings by means of Posada, and feature translated a part of an old novel in regards to the occasion. even as, they discover the underworld in Mexico urban with essays on criminal stipulations, criminology, psychological well-being discourse, and dealing classification masculinities to create a unprecedented and entire slice of Mexican background on the flip of the century.
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Accustomed as we are to being spoiled with things like perfumes or a feathered mattress, we suffered atrociously. If these very manly types wrinkle up with seasickness, what wouldn't we poor pretty ones have suffered? The worst thing is that this travesty will last three days from here to Progreso, and we don't know what those sailors might try when they find out that we are women traveling alone, and With the certainty that we have no mother. 8 In the midst of this solitude, we were able to entertain ourselves by playing games; but we just ended up rolling on top of each other, showing our legs, and not finding a comfortable position.
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Como complemento de la noticia anterior, diremos que entre algunos de los individuos vestidos de mujeres, fueron reconocidos algunos de los pollos de Plateros que diariamente se ven por ahi. Esos vestian trajes elegantisimos de senora, llevaban pelucas, pechos postizos, aretes, choclos bordados y en la cara ternan pintadas grandes ojeras y chapas de color. Al saberse las noticias en los boulevards, se hacen toda clase de comentarios y se censura la conducta de dichos individuos. No damos a nuestros lectores mas detalles, por ser en sumo asquerosos.