Snow Whites and snake charmers

IN TRADITIONAL Latin American parlance the word homosexual refers not to someone who prefers people of the same sex; it is a man who only takes the passive role, letting himself be penetrated. The word heterosexual refers to a man who takes the active role, with either women or men, and usually acts macho too. A man who is bisexual is not one who likes both men and women; he likes both giving and receiving. This behaviour is considered strange and foreign, which is why such men are also called internacional or moderno. Mexican gays call a man who will only have sex with women a buga, but many claim, only half-jokingly, that none exist.