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Meet Britain's first Muslim drag queen

Growing up in a British-Pakistani Muslim home, Asifa Lahore has overcome transphobia, homophobia and racism. She explains why she now sees herself "as a brown unicorn mixed with a Hindu goddess with lots of different arms."

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