New Delhi: Over a decade ago, a 14-year-old Parsi boy ran away from his home in Dadar Parsi Colony in Mumbai as his parents did not accept the fact that he was gay. This young boy is now Simran Shaikh, an attractive, strapping member of the hijra community, who works as programmes officer for the India HIV/AIDS Alliance in Delhi.
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