That's why a group of women, for example, might gather and bring a male gatekeeper to help them understand certain village issues. The same thing happens on the other side, with a female gatekeeper coming into the middle of the men's circle. Homosexuality is seen in the village very differently than it is seen in the West, in part because all sexuality is spiritually-based. Taken away from its spiritual context, it becomes a source of controversy and can be exploited by people. In the village, you would never see gatekeepers, or anybody for that matter, displaying their sexuality or commenting on the sexuality of others.
Gatekeepers are the keepers of the keys to other dimensions.
They maintain a certain alignment between the spirit world and the world of the village. Without them, the gates to the other world would be shut. On the other side of these gates lies the spirit world or other dimensions. Gatekeepers are in constant communication with beings that live there, that have the ability to teach us how to deal with ritual. And gatekeepers have the capacity to take other people to those places.