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The tiny Himalayan nation of Nepal plans to launch its own ’gay Olympics’ in the fall. Planners hope visitors will join local competitors in several events that will help further an already rapidly evolving acceptance of gay, lesbian & trans Nepalese.

Pakistanis who fail to pay up on tax day might find a posse of transgender tax collectors at their door--a form of "enforcement" that relies less on muscle than on local attitudes regarding sexual minorities, attitudes that spell humiliation for scofflaws whom the trans tax collectors target.