Badri Pun, a former national volleyball athlete, quit sports when he was 22.
Now 37, Pun, also an LGBTI activist based in the capital Kathmandu, says coming out as a "third-gender" has been "the biggest drawback" professionally.
"Because I was different from my team members, I was...
2 Comments | Posted March 16, 2012 | 1:49 PM
It's spring break time. And Texas Christian University is ready to play some beer pong and flip cup -- both, drinking games -- on its campus.
But instead virgin margaritas will be on the table and students will have a chance to play flip cup and beer...
0 Comments | Posted December 13, 2011 | 6:10 AM
On a sleepy Saturday afternoon in Slough, a borough west of London, Nidar Singh Nihang knows how to keep a group of young men awake.
Inside an empty hall of a church in London Road, Singh Nihang is an authoritative figure. As 20 men, most of them from the Sikh...
0 Comments | Posted October 18, 2011 | 11:55 AM
Since Courtney Mitchell came to Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1998, the Himalayan nation has witnessed some significant changes.
From the end of a bloody armed conflict, to major political reform that turned the country into one of the world's youngest republics, to a massive social movement that...

3 Comments | Posted March 20, 2012 | 6:06 PM