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...also established a "third gender" category for government documents. A newly formed government advisory committee is studying the possibility of legalizing gay marriage. In less than a decade, Nepal, a poor and devout Hindu kingdom, had become what the Indian writer and gay activist C.K. Meena calls "a gaytopia...
...there, we were directed to Meena Stores, the local grocery, for a boat. There was no one at the shop when we arrived save a young man who, we discovered, was deaf. As we stood around contemplating our next move, he started pointing to the island and making paddling gestures. We clearly were not the first foreigners to visit the micro paradise. Probas, as we later found out he was called, brought us to his father, a fisherman named Makhan. We negotiated a price for the trip?a couple of dollars?and the two of them led us through...
...contraption?planks of wood nailed together, no motor?but after half an hour's paddling through the surf, Makhan managed to get us to the island. He and Probas kept us alive over the next week, supplying us with freshly caught fish and ferrying us back and forth to Meena Stores for shopping expeditions. The island was better than anything we had hoped for on Smith. We lived simply, sleeping in a tent, eating out of bowls fashioned from halved coconut shells and learning?the hard way?to gut, clean and scale fish that we then roasted over an open...
...Smith Island will no doubt be able to dine on steak and fries and have American breakfasts served in their seaside bungalows, but they will probably miss out on the things that made our trip memorable: the kindness of Makhan and Probas, the bargain-price basmati rice from Meena Stores and the simple pleasure of eating out of a coconut shell...
Keynote speakers at the conference include contemporary Asian-American writers David Mura and Meena Alexander...