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Alok V Menon is a poet, author, comedian and speaker and uses the pronouns they/them. Featuring Alok in a lehenga and other traditional Indian clothing complete with jewellery and ‘feminine’ makeup goes against everything a person expects while reading an issue of Brides Today – a magazine that usually features women and heterosexual couples.