Contestants in the audience watching Prakriti Sahodaran-sponsored, drag beauty pageant, Aravan Temple Festival, Villupurum , South India.
Hijaras dancing. Called “minstrels of the night”, the hijras are South Asia’s ridiculed and ostracized third gender-eunuchs and trans-sexuals-who are deemed auspicious at wedding parties and birth ceremonies- but otherwise outcast as nature’s freaks.
