In beauty pageants, salons, musicals, and soon a movie, transgenders at home in Manipur
Esha Roy
Posted: Oct 09, 2011 at 0239 hrs IST
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/In-beauty-pageants-salons-musicals-and-soon-a-movie-transgenders-at-home-in-Manipur/857574/Imphal Having won Miss Transgender Manipur five times in a row, 25-year-old Bishesh Huirem is one of the state's most recognisable faces. Unlike other parts of the country, the valley of Imphal, in the midst of nine hills, has been celebrating and supporting alternative sexuality for years, she says.
She has now graduated to not only anchoring the 2011 transgender beauty pageant, but is also the first ever transgender/cross-dresser to be cast in a Manipuri mainstream movie, to be released next year.
"The movie is called Aungtamo (Yes Brother). It's about the love between a young transgender and a boy — I of course play the transgender," says Huirem.
