Gay and (Almost)Goln: The 49th Miss Gay Bilandia - Wele to the Bt of Bil

Contents:

• GAY AND (ALMOST)GOLN: THE 49TH MISS GAY BILANDIA
• NABUA MAYOR FER SIMBULAN PROVIS MORAL AND FANCIAL SUPPORT TO MISS GAY BILANDIA NDIDATE
• MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA
• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

GAY AND (ALMOST)GOLN: THE 49TH MISS GAY BILANDIA

We sat down to discs the thgs that matter: how, after forty-eight years, Miss Gay Bilandia stood strong.

We’re crowng Miss Gay Bilandia, Miss Gay Tourism, Ftival Queen, Miss Gay Cher Ami Internatnal, and Miss Gay Naga Cy.

The sixth crown will hopefully be lled Miss Gay Camar Sur, award to rints of the provce only, but if there’d be issu, we might opt for the tle Miss Gay Camar stead. P: Issu on the rincy of the ndidat have surround the pageant for so long, siar to other pageants and even at non-gay pageants.

NABUA MAYOR FER SIMBULAN PROVIS MORAL AND FANCIAL SUPPORT TO MISS GAY BILANDIA NDIDATE

In fact, this year, we’re rollg them out through a Miss Gay Bilandia ‘booklet’ to formalize everythg. P: That’s a tone the Bikol gay muni should be proud of.

MISS GAY PRI OF PORTLAND 2023 PREVIEWS PORTLAND PRI FT, PARA

’ It’s high time for everyone to have a sense of advocy and purpose when steppg onto a platform such as the Miss Gay Bilandia. We’ve produced bety ins such as Miriam Quiambao, Ven Raj, Rachel Peters and the late Melody Gerzbach, among others—and some of them even admted that as preparatn, they would watch gay pageants all over the regn. The regn’s love for bety pageants have been fanned by no ls than Miss Gay Bilandia’s endurg tim.

K: Y—other than genr discrimatn, gay-, transphobia and double standards, I thk today’s the bt time to talk about HIV awarens openly, through venu such as the. If there is one thg you wish to improve Miss Gay Bilandia, what would be? We’ve seen Cebu and Iloilo’s promence the gay pageant scene, but only bee LGUs the provc have provid support many ways.

I’ll have them for another terview, but my qutn is, had Miss Gay Bilandia been an absence, meang no gay pageant this big the regn ever prospered, what uld the gay muny be by at durg the Penaancia? The gay muny here would be by wh so many rponsibili! " She shar the space wh iends, petg for the same tle: Miss Gay Universe 2017.

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

Qugue, however, is not gay, and neher are fellow queens Yha or Victoria. Both trans women believe that g the term "gay pageant" as a tch-all term for petns for homosexual men, drag queens, bisexuals, and transgenr women obscur the nuanc of human sexualy.

I don't see myself as a gay guy. "Ako 'yong personal advocy ko is I really don't want the 'Miss Gay' pageants to be lled 'Miss Gay' the first place, kasi ang dami kong nakikang trans dividuals who take part as petors of the pageants, right? “Bakla” or gay (a male attracted to mal) is unr sexual orientatn, while “tomboy” (a female who exprs herself a more mascule way) falls unr genr exprsn.

Gay men are not necsarily effemate, bee sexual orientatn and genr exprsn are not the same. "[I]n the sense of polil rrectns, I don't thk 's polilly rrect that you're trans and then you jo 'Miss Gay' pageants... ' Mas ntral 'yon, for both homosexual guys who drs up as women for pageants and for trans women who jo those pageants.