"This feeling of carrying home with you, in your self-belief and survival, however nomadic you might be, is the magical way queer people belong to a permanent home."
A coalition of regional key population networks responding to the impact of HIV in Asia and the Pacific is calling for its members to be more involved in managing key grants from the internationally funded Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund).
Researcher Kasumi Nakagawa says couples with one person identifying as a transgendered man are not uncommon, but acceptance in communities differs widely across the country.