All Posts Tagged With: "times of india"

10,000 to march for gay pride in Sydney

The Times of India SYDNEY: Almost 10,000 people shimmied, strutted and strode through the ages on Saturday as Sydney celebrated its 32nd gay and lesbian Mardi Gras parade. More than 100 floats with 9,500 performers filled the city’s streets, with Osama bin Laden and Michael Jackson among figures to feature in the “History of the [...]

27Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Training and placement for transgenders

The Times of India CHENNAI: In an attempt to help transgenders stand on their own feet, members of the Dojo Chakra, a private organisation, have found placements for 30 of them as security guards in apartment complexes, hotels and corporate offices in the city. A six-day training programme in self-defence, yoga and meditation, and confidence [...]

27Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgenders get their own beauty parlour

Ambika Pandit – Times of India FARIDABAD: Like most beauty parlours in Delhi and NCR, Simmy is preparing for the big rush during the Karvachauth festival on October 7. The beautician’s diary is already brimming with appointments for the special day. But unlike other parlours, Simmi’s clients are all men. Welcome to Queer Beauty Parlour, [...]

1Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Now, a Miss India beauty pageant for transgenders in city

The Times of India CHENNAI: About 150 beauties with a difference will congregate in the city when it hosts the first Miss India contest for transgenders on December 19, 2009. Chennai-based Indian Community Welfare Organisation (ICWO) is in talks with NGOs and AIDS control societies across the country to organise the pageant which it hopes [...]

2Sep2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

First of its kind: A clinic just for transgenders

The Times of India PUDUCHERRY: Transgenders, often distanced by society, will soon have a clinic functioning exclusively for them in this former French enclave. Even as a group of transgenders in Chennai launched a matrimonial website exclusively for them, in Puducherry the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute showcased a clinic, which, they claimed [...]

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