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Title: A pageant for the third sex
Post by: Natasha on April 21, 2008, 05:24:23 PM
A pageant for the third sex

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080421/jsp/calcutta/story_9163000.jsp
4/21/2008

"It was not just Sujoy and Reema who seized the opportunity to express
their transgender identities in a public forum. Over 39 contestants
from the city and its surroundings gathered in Eastern Zonal Cultural
Centre on Sunday to participate in eastern India's first beauty
contest for transgender people, hijras and kothis."
Title: A pageant for the third sex.
Post by: Shana A on April 23, 2008, 10:08:20 AM
 A pageant for the third sex.
CHANDREYEE CHATTERJEE
Monday , April 21 , 2008

http://malikatv.blogspot.com/2008/04/pageant-for-third-sex.html (http://malikatv.blogspot.com/2008/04/pageant-for-third-sex.html)

From Telegraph India:

The Calcutta Chapter of the Miss India (Kinnar) Beauty contest was organised by Manas Bangla, a statewide network of organisations working with marginalised males, and Kolkata Rista, in collaboration with Bhojiwood Films, New Delhi.