>Doesn't surprise me at all. Dali said that Breton etc. were never
>surrealists when it came to sexuality, but rather conventional petty bourgeois
I don't think this is just a matter of a conventional sign of the times. If you read the discussions at length, there's more than a whiff of anxiety in the air. Breton is so agitated by even talking about homosexuality he threatens to leave the room.