Good going, Mexico

Apparently Mexico City is allowing "non-heterosexual" conjugal visits (as California recenlty did). Following a 2003 law banning discrimination based on sexual preference, "The Mexico City department of prisons and rehabilitation has allowed the first conjugal visit to an inmate with a sexual orientation other than heterosexual." Now, does this make Mexico City gayer? Yes. Is this necessarily better? I think so. Is it hotter? Hell no. Conjugal visits just aren't as sexy. I can't imagine that the dirty/sexy/raunchy sexual politics of prison sex will disappear, but they can potentially change: "Sorry, I can't be your bitch, I'm already in monogamous homosexual relationship."

While Mexico City starts to legitimate a gay identity (first by Civil unions and now by the prison system), it's not surprising that these moves are found almost exclusively (see: Coahuila) in the country's capital. I think it's funny that an overwhelmingly Catholic country, that is pegged by its Puritan neighbor to the north as homophobic and machista, has made some progress in policies of inclusion of gays rather than exclusion. Granted, conjugal visits are odd in themselves and kinda sketch, but a gay conjugal visit is cute and progressive. Good news if you find yourself in a Mexico City prison.

p.s. The picture is by Pierre et Gilles from Le Chantuer de Mexico. You know, just because it's Mexigay. Too bad I can't get a picture of prison sex while at work.