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Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico | The Underwire from Wired.com
Topic: Current Events 4:05 am EDT, Jun  4, 2008

First, by some accounts, the emo subculture is identified with homosexuality in Mexico. As Mexico City youth worker Victor Mendoza told Time.com: "At the core of this is the homophobic issue. The other arguments are just window dressing for that."

Gustavo Arellano, the author of Ask a Mexican and an editor at OC Weekly, said that the sexual ambiguities cultivated by emo fashion helped set the group up for targeting by more macho groups.

"What do you do when you are confronted with a question mark about sexuality in Mexico?" Arellano said. "You beat it up."

Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico | The Underwire from Wired.com



 
 
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