For one muggy Saturday night, a sports gym on the outskirts of the Samoan capital of Apia was awash with music, lights and glitter as the south Pacific nation held its annual Miss Samoa Fa'afafine pageant -- a celebration of the country's "third gender" community.The pageant title comes from the Samoan word "fa'afafine," which translates into English as "in the manner of a woman.""These are not people who were born female, according to the binary model of gender -- male and female," explains Tuisina Ymania Brown, co-secretary general of the international LGBTQ advocacy group ILGA World and …READ FULL ARTICLE
