The Yucatan's queer Mayan past.(ORIENTATION: OUR-HISTORY)(Brief article) From: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbiannewsmagazine) | Date: January 29, 2008| Author: Lencek-Inagaki, Nikko Marko | COPYRIGHT 2008 LPI Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is world-renowned as the epicenter of mystical Mayan ruins-palaces of unknown kings, life-or-death ball games, and grand temples of public human sacrifice rituals. This lost culture is still shrouded in mystery, but what Mel Gibson declined to show us in Apocalypto is that the ancient Maya (who reigned in the area of southern Mexico and Central America, reaching their peak from about 250 to 900 A.D.) were also quite queer...