Other Loves

January 5, 2006
A clip from Delegado O’s participation last night in the Plaza Catedral of San Cristobal de las Casas, starting off the Sexta/Otra with a recognition of love and difference:
“In the struggle, the question of love has come up. And what we see is that there are many ways to love, and it’s not true that love only happens between a man and a woman. What we have learned, as Zapatistas, that in the world there are many ways to love. Sometimes men love each other, sometimes women love each other, there are many ways and paths of love. And we know for those that love in ways other then just between a man and a woman, society, authorities, even we ourselves, see them as bad, as delinquent, as people who could do us damage. But no! That’s not our experience, what we’ve seen at least is they are like all other people, and in fact the majority of the time they are more authentic than heterosexuals in their lives and struggles. And we think, we have studied, that, like indigenous, young people, women, they are also exploited, repressed, victimized by capitalism. So we have to see that they too have a space too within the Sexta/Otra, in the struggle, we have to make this space.”
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
January 1, 2006
San Cristobal de las Casas