Arthur Gore, 8th Earl of Arran He also sponsored a bill for the protection of badgers, and was once asked why this effort had failed whereas decriminalising homosexuality had succeeded. Arran is reported to have replied: "There are not many badgers in the House of Lords." Arthur Gore, 8th Earl of Arran Arthur Gore, 8th Earl of Arran (5 July 1910 – 23 February 1983) was a British politician and the Conservative whip in the House of Lords. He is known for leading the effort in the House of Lords to decriminalise male homosexuality in 1967. His father was Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, and
Homosexuality in Mexico that included homosexual sex, but for sodomy you would be condemned to death in a fiery furnace. Mayan society considered homosexuality preferable to premarital heterosexual sex, so the nobles got sexual slaves for their children. The Mexica or Aztecs were extremely intolerant of homosexuality, even though some of their public rituals had homoerotic overtones. Thus, for example, they worshipped the goddess Xochiquétzal, who reduced her masculine appearance, with the name of Xochipilli, and protected male prostitution and homosexuality. The mythical history of the Aztec people was divided into four "worlds", of which the previous had been "an easy, weak life,