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bbc.co.uk
Young children are supplying an increasing demand from foreign tourists who travel to Brazil for sex holidays, according to a BBC investigation. Chris Rogers reports on how the country is overtaking Thailand as a destination for sex touris…
latimesblogs.latimes.com – Alexandra Sandels in Beirut
The threatening letters and phone calls at night trickled in at a steady pace. They had become a part of everyday life for Randa, an Algerian transsexual and one of the pioneers in the Arab worl…
thejakartapost.com – Hotli Simanjuntak – The Jakarta Post
A fairly large part of Aceh society feels ill-at-ease with the presence of transvestites. Religious circles even link them to the fable of Sodom and Gomorrah, a biblical story about the destr…
independent.co.uk – By Rachel Shields
Miss Mumbai has big brown eyes, long lustrous hair, and an unusually strong jaw. Her lips are stained with a dark red lipstick, her gaze frequently drifts to her reflection, captured in a grubby mirror above th…
ipsnews.net – By Mario Osava
Rio De Janeiro (IPS) – Fatima Oliveira, one of Brazil’s few black women doctors, always goes to “the best carnival,” in Sabara, a city of 130,000 people in the state of Minas Gerais, where “men dress up as women” at a ce…
TheJakartaGlobe.com – Nurfika Osman
Islam does not recognize transsexuals, much less a contest involving their community, the chief of the Indonesian Ulema Council said on Sunday.
“Our national law does not recognize the word transsexual or tran…
Economist.com
Is it a wicked Western habit that should be stopped?
Cross-Dressing is on the rise among young Qataris. The local press says that more tradition-minded locals are upset by the growing number of young women affecting a masculine styl…
GuardianWeekly.co.uk
During the day it is a hairdresser’s salon in Notoyudan, a suburb of Yogyakarta on Java island. But after dark, the mirrors are hidden behind embroidered drapes, rugs are spread over the carpet, and the walls are brightened up w…
InventorSpot.com – by Steve Levenstein
At Hibari-kei, your maid just might be a master – actually they ALL are, since this unique floating Maid Cafe is the first in Japan to feature cross-dressing male maid servers.
Tokyo’s Akihabara district is…
DailyTimes.com.pk
Karachi: Sindh being the most income-generating province, not only attracts the common people, but also encourages a large number of transvestites to rush in from different parts of the country.
“The population of Punjab is high…