PHOTOS: Turkey's First Transgender Beauty Contest

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PHOTOS: Turkey's First Transgender Beauty Contest
By ADVOCATE.COM EDITORS
Posted: Jul 2nd, 2014

TURKEY — It isn't illegal to be LGBT in Turkey, but LGBTpeople still face regular violence and discrimination. A beauty pageant held in Istanbul formed part of a week-long celebration of LGBT events in June in defiance of that persecution, notes the Daily Mail.

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