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Title: Knotty start to Koovagam’s transgender festival
Post by: Shana A on April 11, 2008, 06:55:58 AM
Post by: Shana A on April 11, 2008, 06:55:58 AM
Knotty start to Koovagam's transgender festival
Friday April 11 2008 11:08 IST
Ranjitha Gunasekaran
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IET20080411004651&Page=T&Title=Southern+News+-+Tamil+Nadu&Topic=0 (http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IET20080411004651&Page=T&Title=Southern+News+-+Tamil+Nadu&Topic=0)
KOOVAGAM: THE Koothandavar temple that draws about 70,000 transgenders, homosexuals and crossdressers from all over the country - nay the world - every year in a flagrant celebration of alternate sexuality on the last night of the annual Chitrai festival witnessed a solemn ritual on Wednesday with two elderly male couples tying the knot, symbolising Aravan's wedding to Krishna in his Mohini avatar.
Friday April 11 2008 11:08 IST
Ranjitha Gunasekaran
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IET20080411004651&Page=T&Title=Southern+News+-+Tamil+Nadu&Topic=0 (http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IET20080411004651&Page=T&Title=Southern+News+-+Tamil+Nadu&Topic=0)
KOOVAGAM: THE Koothandavar temple that draws about 70,000 transgenders, homosexuals and crossdressers from all over the country - nay the world - every year in a flagrant celebration of alternate sexuality on the last night of the annual Chitrai festival witnessed a solemn ritual on Wednesday with two elderly male couples tying the knot, symbolising Aravan's wedding to Krishna in his Mohini avatar.