D.C. nttant crowned Miss Gay Ameri Arkansas as state's drag legislatn advanc

Contents:

• MISS GAY AMERI 2022
• THE BIGGT CROWN TEXAS BELONGS TO MISS GAY USOFA
• MISS GAY AMERI IS TRYG TO KEEP DRAG PAGEANTS ALIVE
• MISS GAY AMERI - JAN 2022
• CROWNG ACHIEVEMENT: MISS GAY ARKANSAS PETG FOR NATNAL TLE
• THE BETY OF MISS GAY AMERI
• D.C. NTTANT CROWNED MISS GAY AMERI ARKANSAS AS STATE'S DRAG LEGISLATN ADVANC
• MISS GAY AMERI PAGEANT NEXT WEEK
• FIRST GAY MISS AMERI DEIDRE DOWNS OPENS UP ABOUT WIFE’S PREGNANCY
• ALL HAIL DRAG ARTIST VLET S'ARBL, MISS GAY TEXAS AMERI 2017

MISS GAY AMERI 2022

In late 1972, Nashville, TN (at The Watch Your Hat and Coat Saloon), Norman Jon (a/k/a Norma Kristie), was the first man to be crowned as Miss Gay Ameri. Through the visn of Jerry Peak, the origal owner of the Miss Gay Ameri Pageant, Norman Jon, Miss Gay Ameri Emer, not only sired to enhance the art of female illn as a petor but also to one day create his mark history as promoter the art form.

After relquishg reign as Miss Gay Ameri 1973, Norman Jon purchased ( 1975) the Miss Gay Ameri pageant, om origal owner Jerry Peek, hop of one day growg the pageant system to be the most prtig and most rpected pageant for female impersonators the world. Many thanks go to Jerry Peek, for his pneer visn and effort pageantry through the art of female impersonatn, and to Norman Jon for his 30 years of ditn and sire to mold the Miss Gay Ameri pageant to the “bt of the bt” many years of trial and tribulatn, Norman Jon achieved this goal as the official Miss Gay Ameri pageant ntu today, to be the most prtig, most well rpected, the olst and the largt pageant system for female impersonators the untry and world.

Now owned by Mad Angel Entertament, the pageant ntu to grow and is expected to bee even greater and more prtig, years to as the “Symbol of Excellence”, each wner of the Miss Gay Ameri system reprents profsnalism and the utmost of qualy entertament that the art of female impersonatn has to offer.

THE BIGGT CROWN TEXAS BELONGS TO MISS GAY USOFA

Wh no body gmentatn below the neck allowed, many nttants rely on breast pads, hip pads, flatterg clothg, hairstyle and make-up to merge to a wng batn that will sre high enough to bee the natn’s next Miss Gay nearly thirty (and growg) direct State and Regnal prelimary pageants to the Miss Gay Ameri natnal petn, each year the wner and first alternate of each direct prelimary will travel to the Natnal petn hop of achievg their goal of beg the next Miss Gay Ameri.

MISS GAY AMERI IS TRYG TO KEEP DRAG PAGEANTS ALIVE

Likewise many of the State pageants have direct prelimari whereby the wner and first alternate of the “metropolan” prelimary pageants will travel to the State ntt, effort to be the State’s next Symbol of Excellence and to qualify for the natnal petn, hop to be crowned as the next Miss Gay Ameri. While this pageant at first, was marketed exclively for the gay muny, people om all walks of life have grown to enjoy and admire the ditn and talent need to be succsful this pageant system.

Each of the aforementned tegori are signed to produce a well round Miss Gay Ameri that n lead by example. The newly crowned Miss Gay Ameri n earn as much as $70, 000 durg their reign as Miss Gay Ameri, sh, priz, travel, appearance fe and gratuy for appearance. 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 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.

MISS GAY AMERI - JAN 2022

”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.

” 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. 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.

CROWNG ACHIEVEMENT: MISS GAY ARKANSAS PETG FOR NATNAL TLE

It’s a lovg, supportive environment that feels worlds away om the hostily and transphobia happeng so many spac outsi the 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 for Kofi, Kelexis, and Kayla, tonight’s show might be wdg down, but there are upg pageants to plan, and more 3 a. 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 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.

Imag, photographs, certa text, and vios may not be pied whout ntact  if you have qutns on what may and may not be Gay Ameri Pageant® is a registered tramark of Mad Angel Entertament©"Where the boys are boys and Female Impersonatn is an Art! In 1973, Norman Jon saw a flyer at an Arkansas bar for the first Miss Gay Ameri (MGA) pageant. And over the next four s, Miss Gay Ameri has mataed that foc on the "real"—drag that creat a female illn s performers.

THE BETY OF MISS GAY AMERI

The pageant also dified s l and expectatns; a Miss Gay Ameri n't have visible tattoos, for example, and mt drk her liquids through a, the pageant's 45th year, Miss Gay Ameri has moved toward a ls-rigid foc. "We want someone who n help make Miss Gay Ameri current, " said Arnold Myt, who performs drag as Suzy Wong and was 2017's Miss Gay Ameri.

"In 2009, the first season of RuPl's Drag Race brought drag out of gay bars and tapulted to the natnal nscns a way hadn't que been before (plete wh Vasele filter).

D.C. NTTANT CROWNED MISS GAY AMERI ARKANSAS AS STATE'S DRAG LEGISLATN ADVANC

"Pageantry is like the llege of drag, " said Mart Cooper, whose drag persona Co Montre was crowned Miss Gay Ameri 2010 after that year's ial wner, Alyssa Edwards, was stripped of her crown.

MISS GAY AMERI PAGEANT NEXT WEEK

"Nolan qualified for this year's MGA as Miss Gay Northeast Ameri 1st Alternate. "Watch Broadly meet London's female drag queens:In 2016, married uple Michael Dutzer and Rob Mansman cid to buy Miss Gay Ameri. "One of those plans saw Lady Gaga crowned as the first honorary Miss Gay Ameri.

The cisn ma headl across the ter and brought attentn to the said their eratn of Miss Gay Ameri will look to the future while keepg te to the past.

FIRST GAY MISS AMERI DEIDRE DOWNS OPENS UP ABOUT WIFE’S PREGNANCY

"But 's one that n be seen as nstrictg, pecially as some other pageants, like Miss Gay US of A and Miss Contental, don't have the same rtrictns.

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

Norman Jon, who owned the pageant s early years, talked about the recent live streamg of Miss Gay Arkansas and the e of drone technology for vio rerdgs—a far cry om the early days, when she had to vertly arrive at drag gigs to avoid beg harassed.

"The pageant's -owners hope to help Miss Gay Ameri nttants palize on drag's current moment pop culture. Gay Internatnal Organizatn (GIO) is about tellg the stori of the LGBTQ+ people and muni and enuragg them to celebrate who and what they are, bee you n never be happy wh beg what you are not. Tth be told, my experienc watchg and supportg nttants at Miss Gay Ameri is genuely the reason I’m dog drag today.