Don’t know if it’s just latino machismo…..I think it’s just machismo/”hyper-masculinity” period. Years ago when I had very short hair (brutal bleach on my hair made it all fall out except for the first 1/2 “) I was confronted by a group of “aryan”-looking skinhead guys (6 or 7) who made homophobic taunts & surrounded me…luckily I’m fast on my feet & ran away, but this was in broad daylight, in downtown Toronto.
Not to use this as a personal poor-me time; dickheads are dickheads. But the hypermasculinity of skinheads with their loathing of anything “other” (black, brown, female, jewish, muslim, differently-gendered) is nothing new, though it’s probably exacerbated in times of war.
And, I’ve always thought that the biggest component of homophobia isn’t “disgust” with sexual practices, but rage at those who are perceived to “color outside of the lines” in terms of gender (hence the obsessive preoccupation with who’s “the man”, who “takes it/is the bitch”, who’s too flamey/butchy).
Anyways, just my observations.
AND, I must say, if I was a 16 year old girl today:those emo boys are HOT!!!