Don't be a drag, jt be a queen: Miss Gay Arizona pageant is May 11

Contents:

• THE BIGGT CROWN TEXAS BELONGS TO MISS GAY USOFA
• 12: PAGEANT QUEENS AND MR GAY ENGLAND
• MISS GAY QUEEN OF QUEENS
• PRI POMP: REFG THE STAT QUO THROUGH GAY PAGEANTRY
• MISS GAY UNIVERSELAL-LO
• MISS GAY AMERI IS TRYG TO KEEP DRAG PAGEANTS ALIVE
• MONROE PERFORMER REACH DRAG QUEEN SUMM, CROWNED MISS GAY AMERI 2022
• DON'T BE A DRAG, JT BE A QUEEN: MISS GAY ARIZONA AMERI PAGEANT IS MAY 11
• MS. GAY VANUVER, CELTIAL SEASONS
• MISS GAY MICHIGAN AMERI PAGEANT PROMIS GRAND GLAM
• CHEER FOR YOUR FAVORE QUEENS AT THE MISS GAY ARIZONA AMERI PAGEANT. HERE'S HOW

THE BIGGT CROWN TEXAS BELONGS TO MISS GAY USOFA

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12: PAGEANT QUEENS AND MR GAY ENGLAND

“There’s a big group of , ” said Na Zky, the first openly gay Miss Buffalo, who started a group chat for other LGBTQ+ tleholrs at the Miss New York petn this sprg. While there is growg LGBTQ+ diversy at the lol and state levels, and ndidat are now ee to wear outfs like sus on the “red rpet, ” O’Flaherty remas the only openly gay nttant to have ever walked the natnal Miss Ameri stage.

MISS GAY QUEEN OF QUEENS

” Readg more about Miss Gay Ameri’s history remd me of Miss Ameri’s history, which is siarly fed by a tensn between empowerment and excln. 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.

”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. ” 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. Photograph by Annie Mulligan Left: Denise Paige Mykels, the pageant’s 2018 wner, styl reigng Miss Gay Texas USofA Toni Cavalli’s hair.

PRI POMP: REFG THE STAT QUO THROUGH GAY PAGEANTRY

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. Gay bety ntts or monly known as Drag pageantry are forms of petns specially ma for gay impersonators, transgenrs, transsexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals or gay.

MISS GAY UNIVERSELAL-LO

In the tim of our morn society, Gay Bety Pageants are highly accepted by which all the ndidat are jt exprsg themselv and showg their te emotns. Gay World was Wilbert Tg Tolento, reunts Rodgil Flor of the Kagandahang Flor bety mp, which handl all the trag needs of the Philippe legate to the Mr. Gay World and way back before Tolento was part of 2009, he has been nsired as a magnate of sorts of pageants for gays and bisexuals the untry.

“Wilbert Tolento is nsired to be the Donald Tmp of pageants for gay men, ” says Ryan Soto, one of Tolento’s long-time llaborators.

In 2003, Soto and Tolento started a bath hoe and entertament lounge bs lled the Fahrenhe Cafe and Fns Center, which beme an exclive meetg place and membership club for gay men. It was the first pageant exclively for gay men the Philipp, and has now bee an annual tradn and one of the longt nng gay pageants the untry.

MISS GAY AMERI IS TRYG TO KEEP DRAG PAGEANTS ALIVE

This then snowballed to a strg of siarly brand specialized pageants for gay men: Miss F Universe, a ntt for gay men and bisexuals, and a play on the origal Miss Universe; Miss Earth Fahrenhe, which advot for environmental volvement for gays; and Fahrenhe Look of the Year, which is Mr. Gay World Philipp Organizatn (MGWPO), which handl the overall productn of the natnal pre-pageant before movg onto the ternatnal stage, wh Soto and Flor beg members of the board of directors.

MONROE PERFORMER REACH DRAG QUEEN SUMM, CROWNED MISS GAY AMERI 2022

Gay World’s Philippe reprentative, and after a pre-pageant show wh an dience of around 3, 000 at the UP Theater last year, the tle was won by 36-year-old John Fernanz Raspado. Three years ago, Raspado me out ABS-CBN’s Showtime segment, “I Am PoGay, ” a black su vt and leather tie, sgg a slightly sensual rendn of “Sway” a tenor voice.

So there’s a nnotatn that … a person like me who’s buff, wh a mtache, manly lookg, jog a gay ntt [would make them say], ‘Are you really gay?

Gay World Philipp pre-pageant, where om now on, not only uld he exprs himself to a larger dience, but he uld also make a stand for for himself and for gay men general.

DON'T BE A DRAG, JT BE A QUEEN: MISS GAY ARIZONA AMERI PAGEANT IS MAY 11

Gay World leans toward a more holistic visn of empowerg gay men, the MGWPO and the rt of Tolento’s pageant brands, as a rponse to the untry’s perceptn of LGBTQ, uphold the breakg of stereotyp. There are gay men who are the armed forc and other profsnal fields … We are also troducg gays om the different nservative sectors such as the Mlim muny and the Filipo-Che muny. Gay World Philipp gaed more televisn exposure, some straight men even attempted to jo for the prize money, which is higher than that of a nventnal male pageant.

MS. GAY VANUVER, CELTIAL SEASONS

This is largely bee the gay pageant hg on the procs and format of hetero pageants — an issue pable of sparkg a double edged bate. On one hand, there is the aforementned specialized problem, and on the other, the fact that this sort of screeng procs template has been effective for bety pageants everywhere, and the same way, should be applied to every aspirg dividual, gay or not.

Gay World n take pri settg self apart om other nventnal pageants, terms of s prry and foc on advoci and LGBTQ issu. Gay World, [John is] the ambassador of the LGBTQ muny so he really has to have a ep volvement on all the projects that will be beneficial for the muny. Gay World, "bee we've nquered everythg, all the pageants for women, and now ’s time for gay men to she ternatnally.

Miss Gay Queen of Queens ma a splash on the global scene when the first nner up phed the wner off of the stage 2018.

MISS GAY MICHIGAN AMERI PAGEANT PROMIS GRAND GLAM

From wng to fallg The Miss Gay Queen of Queens transgenr bety pageant beme signifintly more dramatic than anyone uld have predicted when a jealo first nner-up phed the newly crowned queen off the stage durg the fal show. Looks like gay porn and drag are ung a b of the ultimate showdown as eight adult actors will pete the 2020 Miss Peapple Pageant, a drag pageant benefg Peapple Support.

Gay pageants do more than jt showse the ndidat’ physil allure and charm; they give queens the reverence they serve.

CHEER FOR YOUR FAVORE QUEENS AT THE MISS GAY ARIZONA AMERI PAGEANT. HERE'S HOW

When to preparatns for gay and transgenr pageantri, there is ltle to no difference om that of s tradnal, all-female unterpart.

However, there are some who say that such gay pageants feed to the narrative that gay men are tolerated for entertament rather than beg an avenue for their full acceptance; while there are still those who believe pageants are shallow and superficial—simply a mon ground for the modifitn of bety and merely an ostentat showse of glamor. The motivatn behd jog gay pageants is driven by the movement that allows the queer muny to be seen, heard, and rpected as a group of people livg nfintly and thentic to themselv, makg all preparatnal expens—no matter how stly—worth . Cano explas that they hold the pageants “bee we want our voic [to be] heard…so that our advoci [and] ang among gipangandoy ang among gipangayo sa [lol ernment un (LGU)] mapadunggan ‘sad.