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TRALEE native and wner of last year's Miss Gay Ireland Carna McCghley hand over her crown at a packed gala ball Tralee on Friday night. Carna, a former soldier, was crowned Miss Gay Ireland 2012 at The Gee Bar Dubl last year. The annual pageant is held the tle holr's home town every year and on Friday night The Tralee Central Hotel played host to the ntt which saw Carna takg her fal bow as Miss Gay Ireland. * miss gay ireland *
Ms Gay Ireland 2013 Carna McCghley wh Tralee Mayor Pat HseyKerrymanWed 4 Dec 2013 at 06:36TRALEE native and wner of last year's Miss Gay Ireland Carna McCghley hand over her crown at a packed gala ball Tralee on Friday night.
Carna, a former soldier, was crowned Miss Gay Ireland 2012 at The Gee Bar Dubl last year. The annual pageant is held the tle holr's home town every year and on Friday night The Tralee Central Hotel played host to the ntt which saw Carna takg her fal bow as Miss Gay than 250 members of Ireland's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) muny were Tralee for the fal of the 2013 petn and the glzy gala ball that followed .
The Alternative Miss Ireland was an annual gay event which took place Dubl, Ireland, on the Sunday clost to St. Patrick's Day, 17 March. It occurred over three-and-a-half hours and featured a pastiche of the bety pageant rounds spired by Andrew Logan's Alternative Miss World, wh day-wear, swimwear and eveng-wear rounds. The event promotnal material stat: "Alternative Miss Ireland is an annual bety pageant that is open to men, women and animals. It is also a non-prof llective dited to raisg money for Irish HIV/AIDS anisatns ." * miss gay ireland *
They were weled to Tralee by Mayor Pat Hsey who mgled wh guts and officially opened proceedgs before handg over to host drag artists and DJ Charm women, cludg another Tralee native Miss Gay Kerry 2013 Jennifer Bowler, took to the stage to pete for the natnal tle which was eventually award to Cork native Lynn Geary. Runner up was Miss Gay Limerick Lisa Daly who also won the pageant's Miss Congenialy prize. Each year, on the Sunday neart St Patrick’s Day, queens, kgs, disbobulated humans of all sorts and on one ocsn, even a dog, would don their gay regalia and take to the stage of Dubl’s Olympia Theatre to ame, nfe, challenge and enterta judg and dienc alike.
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From s origs as a one-off fundraiser Sis Dance Club to s 18 year n as ‘Gay Christmas’, Alternative Miss Ireland would rhape Ireland’s drag scene and go on to raise thoands for AIDS chari. Bgo wh Shirley Temple Bar fast beme a mastay on the cy’s weekly gay circu.
© 2021 GCN (Gay Communy News). ON SUNDAY, MARCH 18, Panti, one of Ireland’s bt-loved drag queens, took the stage at the Olympia Theatre Dubl to offer a prayer to Dolly Parton and a wele to the fal performance of Alternative Miss Ireland or AMI, Ireland’s long-nng queer bety pageant—or what Panti lik to ll Gay Christmas. AMI has long celebrated sexual diversy, wh a distct gay sensibily and nttants of varied genrs and sexuali, but the show end this year on queerer affirmatns of difference, wh the crowng of Mnie Mélange, a ltle person who lighted the dience wh her big performance, a smart subversn of the Disney fairytale of Snow Whe and the Seven Dwarv.
First staged on April Fool’s Day 1987 as a fundraiser agast domtic vlence, Alternative Miss Ireland was revived 1996, three years after the crimalizatn of homosexualy Ireland, as a fundraiser for AIDS chari.