HamHigh.co.uk – Tan Parsons
By day she cares for sick babies at the Royal Free Hospital – but by night she dons her make-up and dances the night away to the sound of rapturous applause.
Nurse Chiqui Diokno, 43, is the front woman of Paper Dolls, an extrovert group of Filipino transsexuals who are the subject of a film that premieres at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn on Monday.
The documentary, directed by Tomer Heymann, tells of Chiqui’s journey along with the other Dolls from the Philippines to Israel in the wake of the second intifada and then on to London.