The 2008 flood in Sunsari and Saptari districts affected an estimated 70,000 people and displaced 7,000 families. Elements of cultural and religious pluralism – and even reverence – combined with substantial legal progress in recent years mean that many natuwas (and other LGBTI-identified people) live openly in their families and local communities, some with partners. N atuwas typically migrate to Bihar during the wedding season to dance at the ceremonies and engage in sex work. ![]() In the flood-prone Sunsari district, metis are usually referred as natuwas, meaning ‘dancers’. A recent study of relocation efforts following floods in southern Nepal in 2008 found that the needs of some LGBTI communities were indeed overlooked and, for some, relief efforts resulted in unintended harmful effects.Ĭentral to the emergence of Nepal’s LGBTI rights movement in the early 2000s was the widespread state violence perpetrated against metis, male-bodied feminine-presenting people who have been alternatively characterised as gay men or transgender women. ![]() Although there is a need for more research in this area, there is evidence to suggest that LGBTI persons may be discriminated against during disasters in various ways: being perceived as lower priority for rescue efforts families with same-sex partners being excluded from distribution of food and other basic supplies and difficulty visiting injured partners and claiming the bodies of deceased loved ones.
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