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  • “We have two kinds of Eunuchs, complete males along with their live and completely functioning sex organs, and the other type of Eunuch is a former male who has opted to remove his male sex organ, both kind of Eunuchs wear female clothes, wear make up and try to look as much womanly as possible,”

    Threats from Taliban to Lakhtai dancer boys and Eunuch dancers 2007

  • The fifth Kind, are those that have neither the Use of the one nor the other Sex, and have their privy Parts confus'd, and the Temper of Man and Woman so inter-mix'd, that one can hardly say which is most predominant; but these sorts of Persons are rather a kind of Eunuchs than Hermaphrodites, their _Penis_ being good for nothing, and their

    Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob

  • Dibyangshu Sarkar/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Eunuchs danced at a rally in Pandua, near the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, Sunday.

    India in Pictures 2011

  • Flipside's new titles for this month are the George Harrison-produced curio Little Malcolm And His Struggle Against The Eunuchs, a bizarre 1974 film of a play starring John Hurt, and the equally obscure Voice Over, in which a weak plot about a troubled DJ is improved immeasurably by a standout performance from Ian McNeice.

    This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011

  • I still stand that the majority of the PS3 models are Eunuchs.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » I can haz Xbox? 2010

  • That legend is well known; less well known is that Brian was not Harrison's first foray into film production; that distinction belongs to Stuart Cooper's superb adaptation of David Halliwell's play Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs, retitled Little Malcolm.

    Eunarchy in the UK: George Harrison's first movie 2011

  • Eunuchs last year won the right to be recognised as “others”, rather than male or female, on electoral rolls and voter identity cards.

    Indian Minister Says Eunuch Regiment Needed To Protect Borders | Impact Lab 2010

  • Eunuchs were not intended to marry because they could not fulfill the consummation of the marriage relationship - they were not by default gay, but celibate.

    On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies 2009

  • This extensive event celebrates the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals who got us there, with everything from the small but high quality performance arts festival Outset (Taunton, Somerset), which includes Miss Hope Springs among the highlights, to a delve into The Military Role Of Eunuchs In The Later Roman Empire (Newport, Wales).

    This week's new events 2012

  • Eunuchs were not intended to marry because they could not fulfill the consummation of the marriage relationship - they were not by default gay, but celibate.

    On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies 2009

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