Editing Emiliano Zapata (section)

=== Sexuality ===
[[File:DLT'compr'.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Ignacio de la Torre y Mier]]]]

According to the book ''The Album of Amada Díaz'' written by Ricardo Orozco and based on the diaries of [[:es:Amada Díaz|Amada Díaz]], daughter of [[Porfirio Díaz]], Zapata had a very good friendship with [[Ignacio de la Torre y Mier]], Amada's husband.<ref name="mier">{{cite web|url=https://www.lajornadamaya.mx/nacional/169750/emiliano-zapata-de-donde-surge-el-rumor-de-su-homosexualidad|title=Emiliano Zapata: ¿De dónde surge el rumor de su homosexualidad?|work=La Jornada|date=10 April 2021|access-date=19 April 2023|language=es-MX|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308120037/https://www.lajornadamaya.mx/nacional/169750/emiliano-zapata-de-donde-surge-el-rumor-de-su-homosexualidad|archive-date=8 March 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> The friendship between the two has been questioned over time, and it has been said that Zapata and Mier had an affair.<ref name="mier"/> As stated in the aforementioned work, it is said that both met in 1906, when the revolutionary worked in the stables of the Hacienda de San Carlos Borromeo.<ref name="historiadores">{{cite web|url=https://www.homosensual.com/cultura/historia/emiliano-zapata-era-gay-esto-dicen-los-historiadores/|title=¿Emiliano Zapata era gay? Esto dicen los historiadores|first=Edgar|last=Ulises|work=homosensual|date=23 October 2020|access-date=19 April 2023|language=es-MX|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220830035833/https://www.homosensual.com/cultura/historia/emiliano-zapata-era-gay-esto-dicen-los-historiadores/|archive-date=30 August 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> It was not openly known, but Mier was [[homosexual]], so when he met Zapata he fell in love with him and decided to take him to work at his ranch located in Mexico City. Once there, the book cites that in words written by Amada Díaz, she saw them "wallowing in the stables".<ref name="historiadores"/><ref name="De la Torre y Mier">{{cite web|url=https://www.homosensual.com/cultura/historia/conoce-a-los-personajes-lgbt-de-la-revolucion-mexicana/|title=Conoce a los personajes LGBT+ de la Revolución mexicana|first=Edgar|last=Ulises|work=homosensual|date=13 September 2022|access-date=19 April 2023|language=es-MX|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220924160042/https://www.homosensual.com/cultura/historia/conoce-a-los-personajes-lgbt-de-la-revolucion-mexicana/|archive-date=24 September 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>

Some time after this, as De la Torre y Mier was a politician and businessman, the [[Mexican Revolution]] represented a problem for him, this being one of the reasons why he would finance a fight that would try to eradicate the movement.<ref name="historiadores"/> The efforts were useless, since in the end the Revolution managed to triumph. Subsequently, [[Venustiano Carranza]], one of its leaders, ordered Mier's imprisonment. Taking the alleged relationship he had with Zapata as a background, it has been said that it could have been a kind of "gay love gesture" that Zapata had with him, because thanks to the intervention of the aforementioned, he managed to be given freedom and escape from imprisonment.<ref name="historiadores"/><ref name="De la Torre y Mier"/> With this history, it has been concluded that he may have been a [[bisexual]] man.<ref name="historiadores"/>

Other people who have talked about this include Pedro Ángel Palou, as in his novel ''Zapata'' insinuates that Zapata had some homosexual relations. The latter was based on testimonies told by [[Manuel Palafox|Manuel "El Ave Negra" Palafox]], who was the trusted emissary,<ref name="auto">{{cite news|url=https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2022/02/28/manuel-palafox-el-revolucionario-mas-cercano-a-emiliano-zapata/|title=Manuel Palafox, el revolucionario más cercano a Emiliano Zapata|work=infobae|date=28 February 2022|access-date=19 April 2023|language=es-MX|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220504182555/https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2022/02/28/manuel-palafox-el-revolucionario-mas-cercano-a-emiliano-zapata/|archive-date=4 May 2022|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fundacionunam.org.mx/unam-al-dia/unam-expone-inedita-carta-de-emiliano-zapata-dirigida-a-manuel-palafox/|title=UNAM expone inédita carta de Emiliano Zapata |work=Fundación UNAM |date=2 December 2019 |access-date=19 April 2023 |language=es-MX |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203055929/https://www.fundacionunam.org.mx/unam-al-dia/unam-expone-inedita-carta-de-emiliano-zapata-dirigida-a-manuel-palafox/ |archive-date=3 December 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> personal secretary,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radioformula.com.mx/noticias/mexico/20191210/emiliano-zapata-era-gay-homosexual-rumores-sexualidad/|title=¿Era bisexual? Emiliano Zapata habría sido amante del yerno de Porfirio Díaz|work=RadioFormula|first=Diego|last=Santiago|date=10 December 2019|access-date=25 November 2021|language=es-MX|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125202440/https://www.radioformula.com.mx/noticias/mexico/20191210/emiliano-zapata-era-gay-homosexual-rumores-sexualidad/|archive-date=25 November 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> and one of the closest revolutionaries to Zapata,<ref name="auto"/> who additionally was secretly gay.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.homosensual.com/cultura/historia/conoce-al-ave-negra-manuel-palafox-gay-que-encabezo-la-revolucion/|title=Manuel Palafox: "Ave negra" gay que encabezó la Revolución|first=Yet Akatzin|last=Almazán|work=homosensual|date=6 September 2022|access-date=19 April 2023|language=es-MX|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220918014323/https://www.homosensual.com/cultura/historia/conoce-al-ave-negra-manuel-palafox-gay-que-encabezo-la-revolucion/|archive-date=18 September 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> Zapata was aware of his preferences and had no problems with it, but since he was governed by the principle of executing those who were too "feminine", and Palafox behaved in this way, little by little the rumor about the homosexuality of his revolutionary companion was gaining strength among his troops, and finally in 1918, he found it necessary to remove him from his post as [[general]] and main Zapatista emissary.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ulisex.com/manuel-palafox-el-ave-negra-homosexualidad-en-el-ejercito-zapatista/|title=Manuel Palafox, "El Ave Negra": Homosexualidad en el Ejército Zapatista |work=Ulisex |date=9 May 2020 |access-date=19 April 2023 |language=es-MX |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120222205/https://ulisex.com/manuel-palafox-el-ave-negra-homosexualidad-en-el-ejercito-zapatista/ |archive-date=20 November 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>