(Above: clip from a Pakistani TV show hosted by a drag queen called Begum Nawazish Ali)
Web statistics tell a lot about the community reading this blog … including that the most popular ‘slow burn’ article on The Gay Marriage Blog is an article about a wedding in Pakistan between two people officially classified as men that was broken up by police.
One person was a man, in the traditional sense, the other was a member of the Pakistan’s ancient hijra community – a third gender that Pakistan’s courts (not known for their tolerance and leniency) have ordered be recognised as a third gender (a bit like neighbouring Nepal).
I can’t find any proof that real progress is being made for the hijra community or the gay and lesbian community in Pakistan. And there’s little word on what’s happened to all those arrested in May 2010 at the same sex wedding. But here is an excellent article from Mustafa Qadri on the situation faced by the hijra.
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