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565:, is associated with love, sensuality and beauty. Erzulie can manifest aspects that are LGBT-related, including transgender or amazonian traits, in addition to traditionally feminine guises. When inhabiting men, these aspects can result in gender non-conforming or homoerotic behaviour, whereas they may result in lesbianism or anti-male sentiment in women. Erzulie Freda is seen as the protector of gay men, and Erzulie Dantor is associated with lesbians. 1776: 1765: 636: 133: 33: 228: 74: 650: 557:
Other barons displaying gay behaviour are Baron Lundy and Baron Limba, who are lovers and teach a type of homoerotic nude wrestling at their school, believed to increase magical potency. Baron Oua Oua, who often manifests with a childlike aspect, has been called the baron "most closely linked to
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and Abbata, to live at the bottom of the ocean, additionally cutting out Inle's tongue and making Abbata deaf. As a result of their isolation and loneliness, Inle and Abbata become passionate friends and then lovers, able to communicate emphatically. This pataki is used to explain the origin of
538:, a spirit caring for those who die young. He is sometimes depicted as an effeminate drag queen and inspires those he inhabits to lascivious sexuality of all kinds, especially gender non-conforming or lesbian behaviour in women. Gede Nibo's parents are 1535: 1545: 1540: 1368: 1550: 46: 1330: 1358: 1353: 1343: 1338: 1575: 1515: 1557: 1510: 1745: 1310: 1598: 1570: 245: 96: 52: 1520: 1402: 1397: 1071: 1525: 1377: 668: 1825: 1635: 979: 1661: 1630: 1325: 1320: 554:
along with a women's skirts and shoes. Samedi has a tendency toward "lascivious movements" that cross gender boundaries and also imply a lust for anal sex.
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Various LGBT themes are present in different in African diasporic mythologies, primary among them being Voodoo.
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Boy Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities, edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe
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Some lwa have particular links with magic, ancestor worship or death such as the
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In one Cuban SanterĂ­a "pataki", or mythological story, the sea goddess
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and Bawon. A number of these are further particularly associated with
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Conner & Sparks (1998), p. 83, "Baron Limba" & "Baron Lundy"
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Conner, Randy P.; Sparks, David Hatfield; Sparks, Mariya (1998).
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diasporic beliefs and Catholicism, most prevalent in
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