For the first time the pageant’s history, an out gay woman will take the stage. Glamour spoke to Miss Myanmar about facg discrimatn her home untry and reprentg the LGBTQ muny on the world stage.
Contents:
- ONLE MISS GAY COVID19 AIMS TO SPREAD JOY, HELP LGBTQIA+ MEMBERS AMID THIS PANMIC
- GAY PRI A TIME OF GLOOM: BARELY SURVIVG THE PANMIC
- COMPARG COVID-19 AND AIDS FROM A GAY MALE PERSPECTIVE
- MISS UNIVERSE IS BREAKG BARRIERS WH ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CONTTANT
ONLE MISS GAY COVID19 AIMS TO SPREAD JOY, HELP LGBTQIA+ MEMBERS AMID THIS PANMIC
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By then, there was a new edor, and turned out the paper need reporters for a special issue they were puttg together on “Homosexualy on Camp.
GAY PRI A TIME OF GLOOM: BARELY SURVIVG THE PANMIC
“Mamang sorbetero, tayo’y sumayaw, kalembang mong hawak, mulg ikaway. Batang munti, sa‘yo’y naghihtay, bigyang ligaya ngayong tag-araw... * miss gay questions about pandemic *
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“In Banglash, where homosexualy is still outlawed, the implable vid-19 panmic has exacerbated social prejudic for LGBTQ+ dividuals, who already experienced margalizatn, excln and untls guis of vlence and discrimatn, ” Anjuman says.
COMPARG COVID-19 AND AIDS FROM A GAY MALE PERSPECTIVE
”All of that changed 2018 when I met Roxane Gay.
MISS UNIVERSE IS BREAKG BARRIERS WH ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CONTTANT
She had seen every episo of “Law & Orr: SVU” at least twice; I owned DVDs of the plete seri and worked wh Mariska Hargay, the longtime star of the show, at the Joyful Heart pursu of Roxane started wh vg her to be a gut on my long-nng podst, “Dign Matters, ” ostensibly to talk about “Hunger. By then we had e to unrstand the ease of our daily rhythms, the pth of our patibily, the joys we took the same small thgs and, ankly, jt how much we liked each Millman, left, and wife Roxane Gay.
‘My quiet ristance’Photos by Mengwen CaoFor Che photographer Mengwen Cao, who is based New York, the panmic was an opportuny to step away om the racism, homophobia and xenophobia they had experienced: “Turng the lens ward” — as Cao did for this self-portra seri, featurg their ner dialogu and cultural fluenc — “ the perd of panmic is my quiet ristance agast vlence and discrimatn. Alyssa McGill me of age the mid-1990s, when former Print Clton tablished homophobic doctr like Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act.
"I grappled wh emotns, like wonrg why I didn't realize more fully sooner, " said McGill, who qutned her sexualy for years prr, "and if that ma me ls gay. "Bee of the panmic, I got to nnect wh new people who fully owned their sexual and genr inti who showed me what uld be like to be brave and fully acceptg of yourself, " she said, "whout the prsure of feelg like I wasn't gay or bisexual 'enough' to jo lol queer clubs or hang out queer bars. '" The ter n also brg solace to people who don't have an -person support system, say if they live wh homophobic or transphobic parents.