Her brother Pedro a transvestite farmer who defends his identity and his dreams.

Not in São Paulo, because the gays know that a transvestite who is more pumped up is used more, and they prefer them with a boyish face.

One of them fled the house where she was staying and is now missing, as Marcela, another transvestite who I already knew in São Paulo, would tell me later.

And for one day, he wears the clothing of his sister and he becomes a transvestite, a waylaka. And for that day, he leads all able bodied men on a run, but it's not your ordinary run.

I watched the man open a pack of cigarettes with trembling hands and offer one to her, and that is the image of the night of the earthquake in my mind today a conservative grocer and a crying transvestite smoking together on the sidewalk.