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- In Jacarés e lobisomens - dois ensaios sobre a
homossexualidade (Alligators and Werewolves - Two Essays about
Homosexuality), Herbert Daniel divides the authorship of the book with
friend and writer Leila Míccolis. Leila Míccolis also wrote the presentation
on the flyleaves of the A fêmea sintética (Synthetic Female), an earlier
book of Herbert Daniel.
- The first half of t he book, 68 pages, were written by Daniel, the
rest, through page 133, by Míccolis.
- The precious thing about the book is that the authors develop their
political ideas and positions about the homosexual theme in a way that is
disarming, happy, informal, far from academic, almost a conversation. Yes,
the necessity of the dialogue, a literary style that marks the eloquent
liveliness of Daniel, does not minimize the bruising force of his lucidity,
the seriousness and pertinence of his reasoning.
- Through the experiences of the authors (mine? and of so many?), in
the sense of knowing, in the skin and from the sorrow, the oppression that
they know intuitively how to share with so many who still keep silent. They
refuse to elaborate projects, to "study" sexuality or even partisan
proposals, no evocation to struggle... they are predisposed "to open the
portals to where no one suffers, do not come to suffer, the consequences of
the tragedy or holocaust of a sad sex... expounding to us in their writings
that we try all possible and necessary routes for openings to democracy..."
- They write about the multiplicity of sexes, seeking to unveil,
overthrow fables of a sexual bipolarism that confuses sexuality and
genitality. They speak of the sexes that they have, that each one has:
personal and non-transferable.
- Of the introduction and presentation of the book, three pages
written with four hands by the authors, I detach and reproduce below the
last two paragraphs, as the best invitation to entice you to pull up this
work in its entirety on your computer:
- "Let us prospect, in the veins of this land of exile of "alligators
and werewolves, after the preciousness of sincerity. Oh, it doesn't require
courage to expose your own homosexuality! It needs only a little patience
and irony (we hope we have it). We write about our life and sexual options,
school and schools, with the same pride that leads us to cast enchantments
that give us pleasure (to write or to mount, for example). It is necessary
to have courage in order to escape from the ease of the justification and of
the humiliating appeal to a vague "comprehension" or pity. No one need ask
forgiveness for his own sexuality, he needs fundamentally to free himself
from an immobilizing culpability. Courage indeed is needed to love life with
its whole procession of disparities.
- "Our hope is to contribute, with some few ideas here tossed out, so
that, when the world says you cannot, people learn to respond "I want to".