Three stories from the life of the representatives of the LGBT community
In many countries around the world are held in June gay pride parades and celebrations of sexual minorities. Most of them goes around the anniversary of the riots Stounvollskih 1969, when patrons of gay bars «Stonewall Inn» New York staged a series of demonstrations against a police raid and entered the fashion for the gay rights movement. But there are countries where you live, openly declaring their sexual orientation, it is difficult or even dangerous. These three men of today have experienced the post, which means the minimum acceptance. Their stories are told three photographers Ali Song tells the story of Xiao Cao - an artist from Shanghai, Adnan Abid - the story of Sima, a prostitute from New Delhi, and Tobin Jones - the story of Maureen, a hairdresser from Nairobi.
 A. Xiao Cao, 57-year-old gay man in the image of the red guards the Cultural Revolution. Gay community in China has always been in the shadows, but gradually becoming more open. Unemployed Kao - one of those whose lives lifts the veil of secrecy over the far romantic look at the Chinese homosexual community. He lives in downtown Shanghai, in a room of 8 square meters, located in a public toilet. Xiao Cao receives social insurance in the amount of 500 yuan (79 U.S. dollars) a month, playing and dancing in public and sitting with friends in the gay clubs. (Aly Song / Reuters)
 Two. Xiao Cao dresses up in his room in the center of Shanghai. (Aly Song / Reuters)
 Three. Xiao Cao is on the phone at home. (Aly Song / Reuters)
 4. Old photos of Xiao Cao in his apartment in Shanghai. (Aly Song / Reuters)
 Five. Xiao Cao dresses up in an empty room for a meeting in Shanghai. (Aly Song / Reuters)
 6. Xiao Cao apply makeup before you speak in public in a public park in Shanghai. (Aly Song / Reuters)
 7. Xiao Cao prepares to dance performances in a park in Shanghai. (Aly Song / Reuters)
 Eight. Xiao Cao changes costumes between performances. (Aly Song / Reuters)
 9. Xiao Cao stands in a park in Shanghai in the form of fairies from Chinese folklore. (Aly Song / Reuters)
 10. Statement by Xiao Cao in a park in Shanghai. (Aly Song / Reuters)
 11. Xiao Cao singing at a gay club in Shanghai. (Aly Song / Reuters)
 12. Xiao Cao dancing in the Shanghai gay club. (Aly Song / Reuters)
 13. Xiao Cao watching television at his home in Shanghai. (Aly Song / Reuters)
 14. Seema, 33 years, the local office of a nonprofit organization that helps sexual minorities in New Delhi. Sima - transsexual, one of the hundreds of thousands of hijra in conservative India. They are often humiliated, disgraced and forced into prostitution because their position is not recognized by the law of life. (Adnan Abidi / Reuters)
 15. Sima dances in the office of the NGO. (Adnan Abidi / Reuters)
 16. Sim is sitting at home with his wife and children in New Delhi. (Adnan Abidi / Reuters)
 17. Sima plucks stubble from his chin, while his wife prepares dinner. (Adnan Abidi / Reuters)
 18. Sima feed his daughter. (Adnan Abidi / Reuters)
 19. Shem and his photograph in the female image. (Adnan Abidi / Reuters)
 20. In the office of the NGO, where hangs a box of condoms, Sima is preparing to go to the streets of New Delhi to work. (Adnan Abidi / Reuters)
 21. Sim's office on the steps of the NGO. (Adnan Abidi / Reuters)
 22. Cars rush by while waiting for clients of Shem. (Adnan Abidi / Reuters)
 23. Shima is waiting for customers on the street in New Delhi. (Adnan Abidi / Reuters)
 24. If the Western community of people have become more tolerant of different sexual orientation of some of his fellow citizens, in most African countries, people still do not accept those who do not choose for themselves the traditional values. However, in some cities, the authorities allowed to live the gay community. Transsexual Maureen lives in Nairobi, Kenya. (Tobin Jones)
 25. Few people recognize a transsexual. The Kenyan government still considers Maureen man, though he considered himself a childhood girlfriend. (Tobin Jones)
 26. Although Maureen can not have children of their own, he feels the maternal instinct. In this photo of his (or her?) Nephew looks like Maureen does makeup. (Tobin Jones)
 27. Unlike countries such as India, Kenya has no history of transsexuals. As a result of how the community sees them and how they perceive themselves - all this new territory. Maureen does the wax on your face to remove unwanted hair. (Tobin Jones)
 28. Maureen - the owner of a beauty salon, so at work she could easily be a woman. (Tobin Jones)
 29. Maureen has an excellent reputation all over Nairobi, and women from all over the city come to her to do her hair. (Tobin Jones)
 30. The price for beauty can sometimes be very painful - a lesson Maureen experienced myself. (Tobin Jones)
 31. Maureen is still in contact with his district, where many remember her as a child. (Tobin Jones)
 32. Despite the fact that Maureen has friends, there are those who are not in any way want to take her life. (Tobin Jones)
 33. Although because of its beauty salon, Maureen, and was able to get out of poverty, she still lives not far from the slum area in which it was born. (Tobin Jones) | 
Post time 24-6-2012 02:07 PM
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