Doesn't surprise me at all. Dali said that Breton etc. were never surrealists when it came to sexuality, but rather conventional petty bourgeois. (Like their hero, Freud.)
--- On Thu, 6/4/09, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> From: Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Surrealists and homosexuality
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009, 8:57 PM
> I just found this and it's thrown me
> for a loop. There's doesn't seem to be room for
> interpretation here:
>
>
> http://www.iheartmyart.com/post/76651233/surrealists-and-homophobia
>
>
> It is strange that surrealism which was one of the most
> avant-guard and experimental movements had a strong
> undercurrent of homophobia that tore through its ranks.
> While the group had an openly gay member, René Crevel, this
> did not influence the views of other members, and most
> pointedly the main founder of surrealism, André Breton.
> Breton was unabashedly homophobic and openly condemned it.
> Upon review of many of the surrealists works, it is clear
> that their revolutionary tone has a compulsive tendency
> towards heterosexuality and reiterated conventions of male
> domination and sexual domination.
>