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The Miss SOFIAS pageant has been held in Pago Pago, American Samoa, since 1979. The Samoa Fa'afafine Association (SFA), based in Apia, was founded in 2006. It works closely with government, churches, and youth organisations, supporting community projects for the fa'afafine community, but also for elders
Samoa Faʻafafine Association (SFA) is an organisation based in Samoa, which provides support for LGBTQ+ communities. It organises the annual Miss Faʻafafine pageant, provides sexual health educational programming and advocates for the rights of LGBTQ+ people in Samoa, in particular its faʻafafine communities.
Likewise, fa'afatama are people who were assigned female at birth, but embody both gender traits. [34] The Samoa Fa'afafine Association (S.F.A.) is an organisation designed to foster collaboration between the fa'afafine and the LGBT communities in Samoa, the Asia Pacific region and the world. [35]
Fa'afafine are people who identify themselves as having a third-gender or non-binary role in Samoa, American Samoa and the Samoan diaspora. A recognized gender identity/gender role in traditional Samoan society, and an integral part of Samoan culture, fa'afafine are assigned male at birth, and explicitly embody both masculine and feminine gender traits in a way unique to Polynesia.
Sele was the first fa'afafine to earn a doctorate degree, for a short term Sele was president of American Samoa Community College becoming the highest ranking fa'afafine at the time. Sele retired in 2005 and in 2007 published her autobiography "Memoirs of a Samoan, Catholic and Fa’afafine".
Describing fa'afafine in an artist statement introducing their poetry and photography for the USC Cinema journal Spectator, McMullin writes: "The standard practice among fa'afafine (MTF) and fa'afatama (FTM) is that one's sexual partners are "straight": fa'afafine do not see ourselves as women, but also do not identify as gay men.
Stanley was a co-founder and President of the Samoa Faʻafafine Association since its establishment in 2006 until her 2018 death. [3] [5] [6] It was Stanley who persuaded the President of Samoa to become the patron of the SFA. [5] As an activist, as well as faʻafafine, Stanley campaigned for the rights of LGBTQ people in Samoa. [3]
Jaiyah Tauasuesimeamativa Saelua (born July 19, 1988) is an American Samoan footballer who plays as a center-back for the American Samoa national team.. Saelua is a faʻafafine, a third gender present in Polynesian society.