I’ve been reading this interview with this PhD fellow from West Africa named Malidoma.  He is an “elder” and a member of the Dagara tribe in Burkina Faso.  He also has a fascinating view on gay people.  He believes that the gay people in his tribe are “the gatekeepers.”  They are the witches and the shamans and they hold the keys to other worlds.  As Malidoma puts it and I’m paraphrasing, “gay people are well integrated into our tribe.  They have children because the are fertile, but they are gay and they vibrate as such.”  (I didn’t know about my gay vibration, but perhaps this is the origin of “gaydar”?)  The vibration is otherworldly and makes them (the gays) the perfect conduit to the…