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 IS BREAKG BARRIERS WH ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CONTTANT
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It’s taken 67 years, but when 90 bety pageant hopefuls stt their stuff across the stage for the Miss Universe petn this Sunday, December 8, they will be joed by the pageant’s first openly gay nttant—and ’s about pageant world isn’t pecially known for s clivy. Last year Miss Universe had s first openly trans nttant, and this year, for the first time ever, Miss Ameri, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA are all black beg the first out gay woman Miss Universe’s history, Miss Myanmar Swe Z Htet is helpg to wre the next chapter pageant reprentatn. They are verbally teased and beaten, and beg gay is, “punishable wh a lengthy stt prison.
And she’d be makg a real splash the pageant world as the first openly gay wner to be crowned at that level. 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 stage.
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It was a good start for the Philipp arguably the most prtig gay pageant the world. Gay World Philipp. 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.
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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. 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. Fahrenhe’s unterpart for younger gays and bisexuals — all tablished by Tolento.
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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. 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. Gay World is an advocy pageant, ” says former "I Am PoGay" wner John 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. “Bee when I joed ‘I Am PoGay, ’ people would say that I was straight. 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?