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.
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- MISS UNIVERSE CELEBRAT S FIRST OPENLY GAY NTTANT
- MISS UNIVERSE IS BREAKG BARRIERS WH ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CONTTANT
- "AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
MISS UNIVERSE CELEBRAT S FIRST OPENLY GAY NTTANT
Swe Z Htet om Myanmar, where homosexualy is crimalized, me out as gay shortly before Sunday's Miss Universe petn Atlanta, Geia. * gay in universe *
Then some gifs started appearg that ma the show seem, well, pretty gay.
LGBT fans have a tenncy to latch onto any possible ference of a character beg gay and treat their queerns as fact.
I totally unrstand that and have done myself, but ’s really a let down when you watch the show and disver wasn’t as gay as you were lead to believe.
MISS UNIVERSE IS BREAKG BARRIERS WH ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CONTTANT
Was gog to get gay? I uld go on and on about those two, pecially the episo that fills their back story, but I’m lighted to say they aren’t the only nonilly gay characters the seri. It’s cute, ’s adorable, and ’s so betifully gay.
To see a lbian character go through this kd of emotnal arc over such a long stretch of time jt prov how mted Steven Universe is to s gay characters. I mentn this bee ’s powerful to see that relatnships, even gay on, n go sour.
The show is great on s own mers, but what do for s gay relatnships and characters?
"AVENGERS: ENDGAME" FEATUR MARVEL STUDS' FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A SMALL ROLE
(Cartoon Network) “When when I was 22, I was the target of a racist, homophobic asslt, ” said Sugar, tailg a night out walkg wh Jon-Quartey.
The Miss Universe bety pageant has featured an openly gay nttant for the first time – and she hails om a untry where homosexualy is crimalized. Htet, also known to fans as “Superman, ” reportedly me out as gay an terview posted on a pageant fom, Missosology, shortly after she arrived Atlanta for the petn. Her g out is all the more strikg given that a lonial-era sectn of Myanmar’s penal allows urts to punish gay sex wh long prison sentenc.
Anti-LGBTQ attus are prevalent Southeast Asian untri like Bnei, which nearly imposed a ath penalty for gay sex May, and Sgapore, where sex between men is punishable by jail time.