Mexican transvestite fiesta rocks indigenous town

[Natasha]

Mexican transvestite fiesta rocks indigenous town

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE4AM1PB20081123
Mica Rosenberg
11/23/2008

JUCHITAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Attaching flowers to a ribbon headdress, pulling a lace slip under an embroidered skirt and draping a necklace of gold coins over his head, Pedro Martinez puts the finishing touches on the traditional costume of Zapotec women in southern Mexico.

"When I get all dressed up like this my father always says, 'Oh Pedro! You look just like your mother when she was young," beams Martinez, 28, gluing on fake eyelashes in front of a mirror.

[whatsername]

I just have to thank you for sharing this one.  I'd never heard of this tradition before.  Mexico for the most part is presented as full of machismo, with the usual corresponding homophobia and misogyny.  I knew from the Zapatista movement that the misogyny is being worked on, it's cool to see how homophobia and transmisogyny are too.    Seems like there is an awful lot going on within the indigenous communities.