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Mesoamerica was accepting of "Xochihuas", men who identified as women and even served as concubines to kings and were "children" of multiple gay gods, but the Tlatoani of Texcoco banned sodomy and homosexuality. Why is this?

by /u/Chicano_Ducky in /r/AskHistorians

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