During the administration of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1910), the press often provided news on "marimachos" [lesbians, tomboys] and "failures" (as homosexuals were called). Based on the investigations done by writers such as Miguel Capistrán, Robert Mckee, Carlos Monsiváis, Salvador Novo, Luis Mario Schneider, to name only a few, we know that sexual diversity was not so new in the nineteenth century. Two examples are Mckee’s essay "El Periquillo sarniento y sus cuates: el ‘éxtasis misterioso’ del ambiente homosocial en el siglo diecinueve" [The Mangy Parakeet and His Pals: The ‘Mysterious Ecstasy’ of the Homosocial Environment in the Nineteenth Century] and his book The Trials and Tribulations of los hijos de la chingada [the Sons of Bitches]: Mexican Masculinities, 1810-1960. In both his article and his book, Mckee analyzes the presence of homosexuality since the early nineteenth century. In this news item, a priest accepts hermaphroditism without moral question or public scandal. This is a matter that continues to be a subject of dispute to this day. It is also the subject of a novel by Luis Zapata, La hermana secreta de Angélica María [The Secret Sister of Angelica María] that illustrates that ignorance, social taboos and prejudice are factors that prevent in Mexico the natural acceptance of hermaphroditism. By contrast, in the visual arts, artists such as José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913), Diego Rivera (1886-1957), José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) and Antonio Ruiz (1897-1964) ridiculed and attacked both effeminate qualities [in men] and masculine tendencies [in women] in certain cultural sectors in Mexico.