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	My Friends, the Fakaleitis of Tonga
		Fakaleitis translates “like a lady” and are estimated at about 300 coming in various shapes, sizes and temperaments.
		Fakaleiti life in Tonga is challenging in that the straight partners they find can be abusive and often lead a double life with a wife and family as well.
		Fakaleitis have a reputation for excelling in their work, being called on to assist with major events in Tonga.
	www.lgbrpcv.org /articles/11_06_fakaleitis.htm (603 words)

	Fakaleiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A fakaleiti (or leiti or fakafefine or lady) is a Tongan man who behaves in in effeminate ways, in contrast to mainstream Tongan men, who tend to be very masculine.
		Parents of children who become fakaleiti often worry that their child will not be treated well by others, but they can also see themselves as fortunate because there will be someone to take care of them in their old age, while other children are busy with their own families.
		The term fakaleiti (with a long i at the end) is made up of the prefix faka- (in the manner of) and the borrowing lady from English.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fakaleiti (343 words)

	Fakaleiti Summary
		A fakaleiti is a Tongan man who dresses and lives as a woman.
		In many Tongan families, if several children have been born and they are all boys, one of them will be dressed as a girl and do girls' chores, such as housecleaning.
		As the fakaleiti grows up, he or she may decide to continue to live the rest of his or her life as a woman.
	www.bookrags.com /Fakaleiti (1954 words)

	Wikipedia: Tonga
		Sex workers exist, but this is minor compared to other locales, and is firmly discouraged (female virginity at marriage is highly expected).
		Third-gendered 'fakaleiti' and openly homosexual men are somewhat accepted, and celebrated in the Miss Galaxy Pageant, which claims the Honourable Lupepau'u'u, granddaugter of the king and Honourary Consul to China, as their patron.
		Violent crime is limited, but increasing, and public perception associates this with returns of ethnic Tongans who have been raised overseas.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/t/to/tonga.html (1312 words)

	Spectrum Transgender Group of Western New York
		Fakaleiti: A fakaleiti is a Tongan man that dresses and lives as a woman.
		As the fakaleiti grows up, he may decide to continue to live the rest of his (her?) life as a girl or woman.
		If one sees a young Tongan woman in a miniskirt or revealing dress, chances are that, rather than being a native who has been corrupted by the ways of American or European fashion, the young woman is really a fakaleiti.
	www.spectrumwny.org /info/definitions.htm (1992 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Visiting Tonga
		A tradition peculiar to Tonga is that of the Fakaleiti.
		A Fakaleiti is a male child who decides, or is prevailed upon by his family, to dress and behave as a girl.
		There is no stigma attached to Fakaleiti and they mix seamlessly with their peers.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A2184509 (1940 words)

	Gayle Forman \| Scrapbook
		We’d flown right over February 1st, passing the international dateline, and though we would recoup that day, hour by hour, on our yearlong westward journey, I never got over the sense of feeling a little cheated.
		To mix it up further, Tonga’s fakaleiti possessed such distinctly male and female traits.
		Nowhere was this more apparent than on the netball court where they would prance around, shouting, “Dahling, over here” when they were open for a pass and do that hand-flappy thing girls do when they run.
	www.gayleforman.com /scrapbook/index.html (198 words)

	You would love this culture! -- Femininity for All - Men & Women - Boys & Girls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		I am part of a group of people called the fakaleiti, or fa'fafine in Samoa(which literally means 'like a woman').
		When there are too many boys in the family, or the parents just feel like it, they make their child into a fakaleiti, basically a sissy boy, who does female chores, and stays feminine during their marriage to another man or woman.
		Now I always loved dressing up as a girl when I was young, but my parents weren't sure because they already had a girl, and my dad was barely around to do male chores.
	www.voy.com /190543/687.html (733 words)

	Fakaleiti Beschreibung in Library - Definition und Buch-Tipp.
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		Eine Übersicht der Artikel, die mit dem Thema Fakaleiti verwandt sind finden Sie auf der Seite alle Artikel über Fakaleiti.
		Fakaleiti (tonganisch für wie eine Dame) ist die Nennun
	fakaleiti.know-library.net (544 words)

	Intersections: Redefining Fa'afafine: Western Discourses and the Construction of Transgenderism in Samoa
		[4] Fakaleiti is a Tongan term that literally translates as 'like a lady'.
		Tongan 'fakaleiti' are similar to fa'afafine, although the Tongan term refers more specifically to the relatively recent Western concept of 'lady', and can be distinguished from the older term (and identity) 'fakafafine'.
		[33] For a similar observation of Tongan fakaleiti see James, 'Effeminate Males and Change in the Construction of Gender in Tonga,' pp.
	wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au /intersections/issue6/schmidt.html (8167 words)

	You Can Thank Pacific Islanders for Your View of Sexuality
		Meanwhile, in the Pacific, the missionaries were doing a sterling job of wiping out all manner of activity which could be construed as even remotely sexual.
		The faafafine of Samoa, the fakaleiti of Tonga, and the mahu of Tahiti, continued to thrive—defying easy definitions, being neither strictly homosexual nor transsexual.
		As for Maori, there’s no reason to suppose they were any less sexually relaxed than their Polynesian cousins.
	www.sodomylaws.org /world/wonews028.htm (918 words)

	NIGHT WATCH - Kevin Armstrong - Penguin Books
		The characters of Night Watch skirt the uneasy, even treacherous boundaries between what is known and what is longed for, and what is and what might be.
		In "The Hunga Pass we learn about a Tongan fakaleiti, a boy raised as a girl and then transplanted for a time to the American Midwest.
		In "The Cane Field we encounter the myriad ways a mother's love for her daughter can be shredded by cultural and political forces in Fiji.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141000824,00.html (233 words)

	Careerbreaker - Career Break Advice and Ideas - Destinations - Tonga
		there is today the continuation of an ancient Polynesian tradition, of men who dress as women known as ‘Fakaleiti’.
		Straight and gay (although to be so is illegal), and sometimes married, ‘Fakaleiti’ are well tolerated by society.
		Polynesians have lived on Tonga for at least 3,000 years.
	www.careerbreaker.com /career-break-destinations/tonga.asp (584 words)

	New Zealand AIDS Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The “Third Sex” is a term sometimes used among Pasifika people to describe those who do not identify or live according to their birth gender.
		To be held from October 21 to 23, the fono (hui/meeting) is focusing specifically on Pasifika people whose birth gender was male but who identify as Fa’afafine (Samoan), Fakaleiti (Tongan), Mahu Wahine (Hawaiian), Mahu Vahine (Tahitian), Whakawahine (Maori) and Akava’ine (Cook Island).
		“Fa’afafine, fakaleiti, akava’ine, mahu wahine, mahu vahine and whakawahine communities are at high risk of contracting HIV, yet there is little official support to cater to their unique needs.”
	www.nzaf.org.nz /articles.php?id=472 (414 words)

	Lonely Planet World Guide \| Destination Tonga
		Another international competition is the Miss Galaxy Pageant in Nuku'alofa.
		The contestants are all men, or fakaleiti, the local version of transvestites.
		Basic food and accommodation are more reasonably priced than in most South Pacific countries, but forget about upgrading your Roller, as Tonga's not a great place to buy electronic goods, film, packaged foods or cars.
	www.statraveluk.lonelyplanet.com /pacific/tonga (4643 words)

	Dive Travel Magazine Fall 96
		Don't be shocked to find many transvestite Tongans, either.
		Called Fakaleiti, these men are dangerously promiscuous in a country yet to suffer the effects of the AIDS virus.
		In Polynesian custom, families without enough girls will raise a male child as if he were female.
	www.naia.com.fj /magazines/divetravela.html (4088 words)

	Amazon.com: "Miss Heilala": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		See all pages with references to Miss Heilala.
		a fakaleiti beauty contest would do the trick.
		Beauty contests were al- ready a staple in Tonga's straight world-the yearly Miss Heilala com- petition is a big event-but Joey's take on the pageant,...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Miss-Heilala (464 words)

	tonga journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Then the finalists from the Miss Pacific pageant and entourage showed up.
		Mix in some disco standards, the latest Ricky Martin hits, a minor Hawaiian pop singer and some fakaleiti (Tongan drag queens)and it all got really weird really quick.
		It was a fun night, one for books.
	www.taylor.org /~frew/tonga/66.html (241 words)

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