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  • Juchitan, Oaxaca: Queen of the "Baila conmigo" muxe (transvestite) vela (party), Julissa (Eojelio Teran Hernandez) gets dressed while family watches, at home in the 5th ward of Juchitan, Mexico. (Photo: Ann Summa).
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  • Juchitan, Oaxaca: Queen of the "Baila conmigo" muxe (transvestite) vela (party), Julissa (Eojelio Teran Hernandez) gets dressed while family watches, at home in the 5th ward of Juchitan, Mexico. (Photo: Ann Summa).
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  • Juchitan, Mexico: Darina Guerra Carballo works in a cantina in Juchitan. She will be the Queen in 2009 of the local drag queen ball, for which she will have to pay for decorations, dresses, food, etc.  Muxes are very common, and accepted, in this Southern Oaxacan region, which claims to not discriminate against gays. The matriarchal society is still driven by women but in flux in the machismo culture of Mexico. Dec. 28, 2008.(photo: Ann Summa).
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  • Juchitan, Mexico: A "regala," or parade, is held by the muxe group "Baila Conmigo" the day after the ball. The muxe dress in traditional Tejuana dress and parade through the street with the queen, from whose float are thrown gifts for passersby. Once this was fruit and flowers; now it's tupperware. Carts pulled by oxen and participants on horseback also throw gifts to watchers. Dec. 29, 2008.(photo: Ann Summa).
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  • Juchitan, Mexico: A "regala," or parade, is held by the muxe group "Baila Conmigo" the day after the ball. The muxe dress in traditional Tejuana dress and parade through the street with the queen, from whose float are thrown gifts for passersby. Once this was fruit and flowers; now it's tupperware. Carts pulled by oxen and participants on horseback also throw gifts to watchers. Dec. 29, 2008.(photo: Ann Summa).
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  • Juchitan, Mexico: A "regala," or parade, is held by the muxe group "Baila Conmigo" the day after the ball. The muxe dress in traditional Tejuana dress and parade through the street with the queen, from whose float are thrown gifts for passersby. Once this was fruit and flowers; now it's tupperware. Carts pulled by oxen and participants on horseback also throw gifts to watchers. Dec. 29, 2008.(photo: Ann Summa).
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  • Juchitan, Mexico: A "regala," or parade, is held by the muxe group "Baila Conmigo" the day after the ball. The muxe dress in traditional Tejuana dress and parade through the street with the queen, from whose float are thrown gifts for passersby. Once this was fruit and flowers; now it's tupperware. Carts pulled by oxen and participants on horseback also throw gifts to watchers. Dec. 29, 2008.(photo: Ann Summa).
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  • Juchitan, Mexico: A "regala," or parade, is held by the muxe group "Baila Conmigo" the day after the ball. The muxe dress in traditional Tejuana dress and parade through the street with the queen, from whose float are thrown gifts for passersby. Once this was fruit and flowers; now it's tupperware. Carts pulled by oxen and participants on horseback also throw gifts to watchers. Dec. 29, 2008.(photo: Ann Summa).
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  • Juchitan, Mexico: Darina Guerra Carballo works in a cantina in Juchitan. She will be the Queen in 2009 of the local drag queen ball, for which she will have to pay for decorations, dresses, food, etc.  Muxes are very common, and accepted, in this Southern Oaxacan region, which claims to not discriminate against gays. The matriarchal society is still driven by women but in flux in the machismo culture of Mexico. Dec. 28, 2008.(photo: Ann Summa).
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  • Juchitan, Mexico: A "regala," or parade, is held by the muxe group "Baila Conmigo" the day after the ball. The muxe dress in traditional Tejuana dress and parade through the street with the queen, from whose float are thrown gifts for passersby. Once this was fruit and flowers; now it's tupperware. Carts pulled by oxen and participants on horseback also throw gifts to watchers. Dec. 29, 2008.(photo: Ann Summa).
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  • Juchitan, Mexico: Transvestite beauty queens pose back stage at a "vela," or party, held by the muxe group "Authenic Inrepid Seekers of Dangers" (or Las Intrepidas) in Juchtan, Mexico.  Monica (Mariano C. Salud Sanchez) is one of the Princessas of the ball. Nov. 22, 2008 (photo: Ann Summa).
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  • Juchitan, Mexico: Transvestite beauty queens pose back stage at a "vela," or party, held by the muxe group "Authenic Inrepid Seekers of Dangers" (or Las Intrepidas) in Juchtan, Mexico. Viviana (Gustavo Ramirez Santiago) is one of the ball Princessas). Nov. 22, 2008 (photo: Ann Summa).
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