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Indonesia Offers 'World-First' Home For Transgender Elderly

Agence France Presse | Kevin Ponniah | Posted 04.22.2013 | Gay Voices
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A dozen elderly women are gathered inside the pink house, set on a narrow dirt road in a dusty suburb of Jakarta. Together they sew, bake and chat.On ...

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Tales Of The Waria: Inside Indonesia's Third-Gender Community

Kathy Huang | Posted 07.25.2012 | Gay Voices
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Kathy Huang

I had no idea that transgender people could live so openly in Indonesia, a country with the world's largest Muslim population. Like many Americans I had this notion of Islam as being particularly unforgiving toward sexual minorities. How could a community of warias possibly exist?

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