Mention the word katoey and Thais immediately think of the slightly soiled image of the feminine end of the gay spectrum - the man dolled up as woman, the limp wrist and exaggerated postures of the lady-boy.

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However, the tall lady and the little boy seemed soon to have achieved a common purpose.

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Additional comic characters of the ''dzad'' (old man) and ''baba'' (old lady), played by a young girl and boy respectively, interact with the audience.

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Lady Gaga, you make me feel like a teenage gay boy again.

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Lady was good to you, took care of you when you was a little boy, wiped your behind, cleaned your diapers, washed your clothes when I couldn't get to it.

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As a boy, my earliest memory of being a customer revolves around a sweet old lady who sold penny candy from her porch to my friends and me on our way home from school.

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"The Book of Mormon" star Josh Gad is the co-creator of "1600 Penn, " the comedy about the first family in which he also stars as Skip, the madcap man-boy son of President Dale Gilchrist (Bill Pullman) and stepson of first lady Emily Gilchrist (Jenna Elfman).

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