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May 08, 2007
Quickie Link: Gay Beauty Pageant Defies Maoists
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By vanrozenheim
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(Kathmandu, Nepal) - Less than a month after the controversial staging of the Miss Nepal pageant, the country’s gay community has held a Miss Transgender contest - in a double defiance of the Maoist opposition to beauty pageants as well as homosexuality. Though initially over a dozen people signed up to take part in the contest organised by NGO Sunaulo Bihani, many of them backed out at the last minute due to family pressure and the social stigma surrounding homosexuality in Nepal, a local daily said. This year, after the Maoist guerrillas joined the government it was alleged that rebel cadres were cracking down on homosexuals.
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