00:00I am Manchester's finest femboy.
00:02If I walk into a room and no one's giving me a dirty look or looking me up and down,
00:06I need to go warm and change.
00:07I need to put some more makeup on.
00:09I need to get my lips done again.
00:11I'm me and not apologising for it.
00:13Today, I am stripping back my sexy, femboy lifestyle
00:16and I'm reclaiming my Pakistani heritage on my own terms.
00:20Hey, ****!
00:20****!
00:27I'm Adeel.
00:28I am Pakistan's finest femboy.
00:30Name another Pakistani femboy who's longer than me.
00:36A femboy is a feminine gay man.
00:38We wear, like, feminine clothes.
00:40We wear the makeup.
00:40But for me, it's not, like, cross-dressing fully.
00:43It's kind of, like, lying that I don't go over.
00:45I just cross-dress to be, like, a pretty gay boy.
00:48Femboy style is, like, crop tops.
00:51I've got a tiny waist, so I've got to show that off.
00:52My face is quite femme.
00:54Obviously, I've got quite a lot of makeup on.
00:55My best qualities are big lips, small waist.
00:59Period.
01:00I work in a bar, but when I walk in later,
01:02no one is going to recognise me.
01:04I've always been proud of my culture,
01:06but my best friends would never think in a million years
01:08that this femboy would turn traditional.
01:11Time to get this plan going, but first step,
01:13get the girls to the bar.
01:18Hi.
01:19Hi, babe.
01:20Can you meet me at the bar at four o'clock?
01:22At four?
01:23Yeah, that's fine.
01:23Yeah, at four.
01:24I've got a surprise to use.
01:26Make sure you bring Meghan.
01:27I'm so excited.
01:28Make sure you bring Meghan Queen.
01:30I will do.
01:31See you later.
01:32See you later, babe.
01:33Bye.
01:34I'm going to be de-glamming.
01:36I'm getting more in touch with my Pakistani side
01:38without any makeup.
01:40You're going to see the real me, basically.
01:44I've chosen to transform into this today because,
01:47although, like, I feel free now, living my best life,
01:50I kind of feel like I've kind of forgotten, like,
01:52parts, my roots and my culture.
01:54And, you know, I really want to embrace where I'm actually from.
01:57Also today, I'm going to a South Asian LGBTQ society
02:00where I can meet other South Asian LGBTQ people like myself.
02:05How do you feel about that you're about to embrace your
02:08Pakistani heritage?
02:09I mean, I'm excited.
02:10I haven't wore the clothes in ages.
02:12Like, I feel like I'm kind of like, you know,
02:14little, like, childhood me would be like, oh, cute.
02:17But I'm also just like, this is just going to be gross.
02:21Like, I'm just going to look gross.
02:22I grew up Pakistani Muslim household.
02:25My mum used to dress me and my brother the same
02:27for quite a lot of my childhood.
02:28It was all right growing up, obviously, until I started
02:30to get these, like, feelings of being gay.
02:32I, like, suppressed myself for so long, like, until I was 17
02:36is when I came out.
02:38Like, I did live, like, quite scared of, like, you know,
02:41they're going to kick me out.
02:41What's going to happen?
02:42The reason why I had to turn my back,
02:44it was kind of like a mixture of everything.
02:46Being in the house when I've got, like,
02:47having to hide in my room, putting concealer on,
02:49kind of like, live like a double life.
02:50But low-key, it made me, like, really, really strong as a person.
02:55And, you know, it's made me so confident.
02:58I do feel really proud about making that decision.
03:00I think it's the best thing I've ever done in my life.
03:02I'm free now.
03:04I'm going to feel naked without my jewellery.
03:06I've had all my piercings in my face since I was 17.
03:08Do you know what I mean?
03:09Like, I've never took them out.
03:15Oh, next step's the hair.
03:18Oh!
03:19God, I'm known for me luscious locks.
03:22This is going to be...
03:24disgusting.
03:27Let's see how big his forehead really is.
03:30I have been judged in public and online.
03:33It's happened quite a lot, to be honest.
03:35I've been spat on before.
03:36I've been told, like, I'm a disgrace to my family.
03:38Oh, his poor dad, his poor Muslim family.
03:40He's brought shame on all of them.
03:42It used to get to me a lot when I was younger.
03:44People are keyboard warriors, like,
03:45they've got nothing else better to comment on.
03:46Thank you for boosting my algorithm, girl.
03:50So fiddly.
03:52I'm reviewing it to my best friends, Zai and Megan.
03:57Adil rang you earlier, like, what's going on?
03:59Like, what does he say on the phone?
04:00If he just rang me, he said, be here at one o'clock.
04:03I'm not sure why.
04:04I think their reactions are going to be fun to watch.
04:06She doesn't see me, like, put together, like, going out or, like,
04:09in a different kind of, like, style to what I am now.
04:12Do you know what I mean?
04:12So it'll be quite...
04:14It's quite exciting to see that.
04:15This is so weird.
04:17I look so different.
04:18God, anyways, let's ring up the girls.
04:20Let's get to the bar.
04:21What do you think of Adil's fanboy look now?
04:23I love it.
04:25Like, I think, like, no one else looks like him.
04:28Like, genuinely.
04:29He doesn't care what anyone thinks about what he looks like.
04:31He loves wearing a crop top.
04:33He just does his thing.
04:35He goes out and then he comes home and he has a drink.
04:38Literally anywhere you go,
04:39especially in the gay village in Manchester,
04:42everyone notices him, like,
04:43because he's already seen them.
04:44Oh, my gosh, the way he does his stuff.
04:46Yeah.
04:46Nobody can do it.
04:47No one can do it like a girl, honestly.
04:49All angles, he's looking good.
04:50All angles.
04:51Do you think he can pull off any other look?
04:54Do you know what?
04:54I've seen him try to look like a straight lad before.
04:58Do you know what?
04:58He can pull off the no-makeup look.
05:01He really can.
05:02Hey, .
05:04.
05:08Down.
05:10Oh, my gosh.
05:11Do you like the hair?
05:12Face, so curious.
05:13Do you like the hair?
05:14I love the hair.
05:15Do you like the hair?
05:17I don't know if I like the hair.
05:19I don't know if I like the hair.
05:19I don't know if I like the hair.
05:20So cute.
05:22Wow.
05:23When I first put it on, I was like, oh.
05:25But then once it's all on.
05:27Yeah.
05:27I was like, you know what?
05:28It's kind of a good hair.
05:29Do you like it?
05:30I mean, yeah.
05:31Would you wear it again?
05:36I mean, if I was going to like the right function.
05:39Yeah.
05:40Yeah.
05:40I mean, like Nate, I'm going to like society.
05:42It's like LGBT, South Asian society.
05:45So it'll be good for that.
05:46I also got the fit for that.
05:47You look so handsome.
05:48Awesome.
05:50I'm not going to joke you.
05:51Thanks, Crowley's.
05:52Oh, I love you guys.
05:55I think he looks really sweet.
05:57Like, I've never seen him in this outfit before.
06:00Like, it's usually him.
06:01I like to see him in my crop tops that I've just bought.
06:03Yeah.
06:04No shade.
06:08So yeah, actually, the colour looks really, really nice on the day.
06:11Yeah.
06:11I do like the colour.
06:12I feel like it looks good with my skin, the colour.
06:14Yeah, it really does.
06:15It really, really does.
06:16I like this.
06:17I feel like we're not really seeing, like, tap into your culture.
06:19Mitch and Terry's your wife.
06:22Yeah.
06:22Yeah, it's very true.
06:24Yeah, yeah.
06:24It's you two, honestly.
06:25I feel great now that I've reclaimed my culture and I'm in these Asian clothes.
06:29Like, this is still, me being gay doesn't change that.
06:31I'm Pakistani.
06:32Do you know what I mean?
06:33Like, I'm going to still be the lovely fusion that I am.
06:38Do you know what I mean?
06:38So yeah, I'm gassed.
06:40I quite like it.
06:40The thing I love about you is, you take something and you make it your own.
06:44But you make it work.
06:45You know what I mean?
06:46Like, you can still be gay and represent your culture, represent, you know, your background
06:511000%.
06:51Because you look...
06:52You sound very handsome.
06:54But you've still got that little spark of you in there.
06:57Thanks, Bukin.
06:58I love it.
06:58I love you.
06:59And I love you too.
07:00I love you, Adil, can literally, like I'm saying before, if you makes anything work,
07:04he will strut a runway anywhere in anything.
07:08I love you, girl.
07:09Love you.
07:11I actually weren't expecting them to, like, love it as much as they did.
07:14And the fact that I have, like, no makeup on and my hair, I was really, like, weirded
07:19out by my hair but they loved it, so...
07:21I loved their reaction, and I'm actually excited to wear my Asian clothes.
07:27This experience has taught me that I don't actually need to always have make-up on.
07:31It doesn't matter that I'm gay, like I can still be like Pakistani and still, you know,
07:36like dress in Asian clothes and embrace the culture.
07:39I'm joining the society. I'm going today, which will be good.
07:42It's a South Asian LGBTQ society. So I'm excited to do that.
07:46And yeah, cheers for playing with the outfit, guys.
07:49Hey guys, so I am back from, you know, my LGBTQ society that I went to.
07:53It went really well. I met loads of the South Asian gay people like myself.
07:59I met a few Muslims as well, like people who were obviously gay.
08:03I was gay and obviously that's the background I came out from.
08:06So yeah, it was really nice actually meeting other people like me.
08:10And yeah, it went really well.
08:12So yeah, I have a couple of new friends who are just like me. Period.
08:27It's up.
08:27You
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