Sofia Anrson Ws the Crown at the Miss Gay Texas Ameri Pageant at S4 | Dallas Observer

Contents:

• SOFIA ANRSON IS NAMED TEXAS' TOP DRAG QUEEN AT MISS GAY TEXAS AMERI
• ALL HAIL DRAG ARTIST VLET S'ARBL, MISS GAY TEXAS AMERI 2017
• MISS GAY TEXAS AMERI
• MISS GAY TEXAS AMERI
• WHY WAS ALYSSA EDWARDS DETHRONED FROM MISS GAY AMERI PAGEANT?
• MISS GAY AMERI 2022
• INSI THE MISS GAY TEXAS AMERI PAGEANT DALLAS, LAND OF SISTERHOOD AND SPARKL
• FORMER MISS GAY AMERI AND FOUNR OF HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS TEXAS HONORED WH PRTIG VOLUNTEER AWARD
• SCEN OM MISS GAY DALLAS AMERI AT THE ROUND-UP ON WEDNDAY

SOFIA ANRSON IS NAMED TEXAS' TOP DRAG QUEEN AT MISS GAY TEXAS AMERI

Miss Gay Texas Ameri(A Closed State Prelimary).

Last week, the Texas prelimary to Ameri's most prtig drag pageant, Miss Gay Ameri, took place at the Rose Room si Cedar Sprgs nightclub S4.

ALL HAIL DRAG ARTIST VLET S'ARBL, MISS GAY TEXAS AMERI 2017

After two prelimary nights and a review show, where 30 nttants were judged across five tegori, on Friday Sofia Anrson was crowned Miss Gay Texas... After two prelimary nights and a review show, where 30 nttants were judged across five tegori, on Friday Sofia Anrson was crowned Miss Gay Texas 2016. Anrson, the nttant found to have the most star power, will try to brg the Miss Gay Ameri crown home to Texas for the send year a row at the fals Memphis, Tennsee, om October 5 to 9.

Before Vivi Perry, the reigng Miss Gay Texas USofA Classic, n take the stage for the openg number, there are sequs to glue, nerv to quell, and rgs the size of teacup scers to slip onto manicured hands.In a large downstairs space beneath the chanliered Ballroom at Bayou Place downtown Hoton, Rega Dane, Symphony McKnight Capri, and Topaz s patiently their makp chairs. Gay Texas USofA, Miss and Mr. Gay Texas USofA at Large, and Miss Gay Texas USofA Newer.

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“Sometim when you jt have a knot your rope of support mak life a lot easier.”Upstairs the ballroom, guts of all ag trickle , cludg Texas drag legends like Tommie Ross, a Hoton-based pageant queen and wner of tl like Miss Black Ameri, Miss Gay USofA, and Miss Contental. “Some kids the gay muny are shunned by their fai, so drag queens are the mothers. “Prr to , the shows were gay clubs at night and people were hangg over the railgs.

Conttant Poison Alexanr Dr flew her makp artist om Jacksonville, Florida, she says, “to work her magic.” Dr took fifteen years off om pageantry to foc on her tn and reer, but she’s back to reclaim her dream of beg Miss Gay Texas USofA Classic.“I’ve been preppg for two years, and I want to give one more try,” she says. She also qualifi to pete the natnal pageant, Miss Gay USofA Classic, May.

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Denise Paige Mykels, the pageant’s 2018 wner, styl reigng Miss Gay Texas USofA Toni Cavalli’s hair.

Photograph by Annie Mulligan Left: Denise Paige Mykels, the pageant’s 2018 wner, styl reigng Miss Gay Texas USofA Toni Cavalli’s hair. Gay Texas USofA 2021, have actual glter his beard?

It’s a lovg, supportive environment that feels worlds away om the hostily and transphobia happeng so many spac outsi the doors.At last, reigng queen Vivi Perry tak the stage for her fal performance as Miss Gay USofA Classic. The 2022 Miss Gay Texas USofA Classic crown go to Symphony McKnight Capri, who tak her Texas-shape plaque, dons her tiara, and cri.As for Kofi, Kelexis, and Kayla, tonight’s show might be wdg down, but there are upg pageants to plan, and more 3 a.m.

WHY WAS ALYSSA EDWARDS DETHRONED FROM MISS GAY AMERI PAGEANT?

They have a bevy of pageants to put on throughout the state over the next few months, leadg up to the ma event Augt back at Bayou Place, Miss Gay Texas USofA.On our Zoom ll a few weeks before the event, Kofi had told me that at a pageant she once performed , a young man me up to her after the show and told her that somethg she said gave him a reason to live, to not take his own life. Hoton-based drag entertaer Vlet S'Arbl, née Jab Chaput, will shower the Lone Star State wh a purple reign as the newly crowned Miss Gay Texas Ameri.

"The Miss Gay Texas Ameri legacy is 43 years of stellar, spiratnal entertaers, " he says, "and hontly I'm jt so humbled and thrilled to have the honor to jo those ranks and reprent the system this year.

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Chaput qualified for the pageant by wng the regnal Miss Gay Galvton Ameri pageant and ntued to the statewi petn last weekend Dallas, where he bted 29 other nttants to earn the tle. "I’m lookg forward to leavg a mark on Miss Gay Texas, " he says. The other falist, Evelyn Sy, liv At but was reprentg her regnal tle as Miss Gay Harris County Ameri.

He has been petg the Miss Gay Texas pageant system for four years, placg wh the Top 5 each year.

INSI THE MISS GAY TEXAS AMERI PAGEANT DALLAS, LAND OF SISTERHOOD AND SPARKL

Click to enlarge Before his w, Chaput was a four-time Miss Gay Texas Ameri falist. It’s certaly ma me a better entertaer, and I was really proud I was able to show the Miss Gay Texas system the impact they’ve had on who I am and how I live my life. Vlet S'Arbl, pos wh his mother at the Miss Gay Texas Ameri pageant.

I never planned to do drag, but led up, and now I’m workg five days a week, and here I am as Miss Gay Texas. " "I never planned to do drag, but led up, and now I’m workg five days a week, and here I am as Miss Gay Texas" — Jab Chaput, aka Vlet S'Arbl tweet this What a succs has been.

FORMER MISS GAY AMERI AND FOUNR OF HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS TEXAS HONORED WH PRTIG VOLUNTEER AWARD

Overall, addn to entertag Hoton dienc weekly, he wants to be a mol reprentative of the Miss Gay Texas Ameri pageant for the next year. Miss Gay Ameri Prelimari. A Closed-State Pageant is a State pageant whereby nttants mt meet the 90 day rincy requirement and mt qualify, as wner or first alternate, through an official cy/metropolan Open-State Pageant is a State pageant whereby there are no official cy/metropolan prelimary pageants and nttants mt meet the 90 day rincy requirement, of that particular state, orr to you will fd a list of prelimari that are immediately available for Gay Alaska AmeriMiss Gay Atlantic Coast AmeriMiss Gay Colorado AmeriMiss Gay Delta Stat AmeriMiss Heartland AmeriMiss Gay Idaho AmeriMiss Gay Indiana AmeriMiss Gay Kentucky AmeriMiss Land of EnchantmentMiss Las Vegas RegnalMiss Gay Mid-South AmeriMiss Gay Montana AmeriMiss Gay Nebraska AmeriMiss Gay New Hampshire AmeriMiss Gay New Jersey AmeriMiss Gay New Mexi AmeriMiss North AmeriMiss Gay North Dakota AmeriMiss Gay Northern Stat AmeriMiss Gay Northwt AmeriMiss Gay Oregon AmeriMiss Gay Rho Island AmeriMiss Gay Smoky Mounta AmeriMiss Gay SouthMiss Gay South Carola AmeriMiss Gay South Dakota AmeriMiss Gay South Regnal AmeriMiss Gay South Dakota AmeriMiss Gay Utah AmeriMiss Gay Vermont AmeriMiss Gay Washgton AmeriMiss Gay Wt Virgia AmeriMiss Gay Wisns AmeriMiss Gay Wyomg Ameri.

Miss Gay Texas Ameri is a prelim to Miss Gay Ameri. Miss Gay Texas Ameri Tleholrs. Prelims to Miss Gay Texas Ameri.

SCEN OM MISS GAY DALLAS AMERI AT THE ROUND-UP ON WEDNDAY

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