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Miss Gay USofA
Drag pageantry is a developed form of pageantry for female impersonators, drag queens, and trans women, styled after traditional beauty pageants or contests for cisgender women. It has also evolved into a pageantry for male impersonators, drag kings and trans men. National pageants in the United States National drag pageants became enmeshed within the gay community during the 1960s with a national circuit of pageants organized by Flawless Sabrina and have become increasingly prevalent since. Drag pageants were held in individual gay bars, and discothèques during the post Stonewall era. Drag pageants evolved independently, in the decade subsequent to the first gay Mardi Gras coronations. Miss Gay America Mirroring the format of the Miss America contest, the first national gay pageant Miss Gay America (MGA) was held in 1972 at the Watch Your Hat & Coat Saloon in Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville's first gay dance and show bar. Jerry Peek opened this bar in 1971, and it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauty Pageant
A beauty pageant is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, talent, character, and charitable involvement, through private interviews with judges and answers to public on-stage questions. The term beauty pageant refers originally to the Big Four international beauty pageants. Pageant titles are subdivided into Miss, Mrs. or Ms., and Teen – to clearly identify the difference between pageant divisions. Hundreds and thousands of beauty contests are held annually, but the Big Four are considered the most prestigious, widely covered and broadcast by media. For example, ''The Wall Street Journal'', BBC News, CNN, Xinhua News Agency, and global news agencies such as Reuters, Associated Press and Agence France-Presse collectively refer to the four major pageants as "Big Four" namely: Miss Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's AdSense program, which seeks to generate more revenue for both parties ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candis Cayne
Candis Cayne (born August 29, 1971) is an American actress and performance artist. Cayne performed in New York City nightclubs in drag since the 1990s, and came out as transgender in 1996; Cayne came to national attention in 2007 for portraying transgender mistress Carmelita on ABC's prime time drama ''Dirty Sexy Money''. The role makes Cayne the first transgender actress to play a recurring transgender character in primetime. She is perhaps best known for her recurring role as the Fairy Queen on the fantasy series '' The Magicians''. Early life Cayne has a fraternal twin brother named Dylan. Their parents taught at a Waldorf School, and the family lived on campus.Venus, Michael (2002). Michael Venus Profiles: Candis Cayne. ''YouTube'' She graduated from Henry Perrine Baldwin High School in Hawaii in 1989 and then spent a year in Los Angeles, where she trained as a dancer. Career Cayne then moved to New York in the early 1990s, making a name for herself as a choreographer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erica Andrews
Erica Andrews (September 30, 1969 – March 11, 2013) was a Mexican international and national beauty pageant title winner, drag performer, actress, entrepreneur, and activist. Early life and career Erica Andrews was born on September 30, 1969, in Allende, Nuevo León, Mexico. She grew up on a small ranch called Los Aguirres in the rural outskirts of Allende, where there was little electricity. She changed her name to Erica, a name she derived from a phonetic pronunciation of Eddie. She attached a colloquial ''ca'' to the end of ''Eddie'' so that it sounded like ''Eddieca'' and formed the name ''Erica''. Consequently, she became Erica Salazar. Beginning around 1989–1990, she took on the stage name Erica Hutton. She named herself after Lauren Hutton, whom she admired. After she met Tandi Andrews, who became her drag mother and mentor, she changed her stage name to Erica Hutton Andrews and subsequently to Erica Andrews. Andrews was born into a family with two older broth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Catiria
Catiria Reyes (1959 – May 3, 1999), better known as Lady Catiria, was a Puerto Rican drag performer, film actress, and transgender beauty pageant winner. She was one of the main performers at the New York City Latino nightclub La Escuelita, where she entertained crowds for almost two decades. She was the first person to win two titles at the Miss Continental pageant in Chicago. Towards the end of her life, she became an advocate for AIDS awareness. Performance career Lady Catiria began her career at the age of 19 years in the neighborhood of Jackson Heights, Queens, impersonating the Puerto Rican TV performer Iris Chacón.Suggs, Donald.Queen of Hearts" ''POZ'' no. 48 (June 1999): 81. Accessed Aug. 19, 2009. In the early 1980s, Lady Catiria moved to La Escuelita, a gay club located in midtown Manhattan, where she developed an extremely large following that would faithfully attend her lip-synching performances, especially on Saturday nights. Lady Catiria, who was a transsexual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Billings
Alexandra Scott Billings (born March 28, 1962) is an American actress, teacher, and singer. Billings is the second openly transgender woman to have played a transgender character on television, which she did in the 2005 made-for-TV movie '' Romy and Michele: In the Beginning''. She is also known for portraying the recurring character Davina in the Amazon series ''Transparent'' and has played transgender characters in ''ER'', ''Eli Stone'', ''How to Get Away with Murder'', ''Grey's Anatomy'' and ''The Conners''. Early life Billings was born in Illinois into a multiracial family; she is of European American, African American, and Native American ancestry. Billings' father, Robert Billings, was a music teacher at Los Angeles Harbor College and the musical director for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, which influenced her interest in theater. She assisted, working backstage with Carol Burnett and Yul Brynner. She also appeared in ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' and ''The Roar of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amber Richards
Amber Marie Williams (November 17, 1957 – May 12, 1996), better known by the stage name Amber Richards, was an American transgender female impersonator, performer, and television personality. Richards was active in drag pageantry beginning in the late 1970s, competing in local and national pageants including Miss Gay America, Miss Continental, Miss Florida Female Impersonator, Miss Gay USofA, and Miss National. She won the Miss Florida FI pageant in 1985 and Miss Continental USA in 1991. Richards appeared on daytime talk shows in the early 1990s and helped introduce an American audience to issues of gender identity, sexuality, and transgender rights at a time when members of the LGBTQ community were parodied and ridiculed. Early life and Career Richards was born Richard "Rick" Atkinson in Marion, Indiana, on November 17, 1957, and graduated from Marion High School in 1976. She began performing in Indianapolis, Indiana, at the Famous Door nightclub and participated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naysha Lopez
Naysha Lopez is the stage name of drag performer and pageant participant Fabian Rodriguez, who competed on the eighth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' is an American reality competition television series, the first in the ''Drag Race'' franchise, produced by World of Wonder for Logo TV (season 1–8), WOW Presents Plus, VH1 (season 9–14) and, beginning with the f ...''. Rodriguez lives in Chicago. References {{RuPaul's Drag Race Living people American drag queens Beauty pageant contestants People from Chicago RuPaul's Drag Race contestants Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
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Transgender
A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through transitioning, often adopting a different name and set of pronouns in the process. Additionally, they may undergo sex reassignment therapies such as hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery to more closely align their primary and secondary sex characteristics with their gender identity. Not all transgender people desire these treatments, however, and others may be unable to access them for financial or medical reasons. Those who do desire to medically transition to another sex may identify as transsexual. ''Transgender'' is an umbrella term. In addition to trans men and trans women, it may also include people who are non-binary or genderqueer. Other definitions of ''transgender'' also include people who belong to a third gender, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Mateo
Alexis Mateo Pacheco (born July 24, 1979), best known as Alexis Mateo, is a Puerto Rican drag queen, performer, reality television personality, fashion designer, and the winner of All American Goddess 2016, Miss Gay Days 2016 and National Showgirl 2017. She became internationally known as a contestant on season 3 of '' RuPaul's Drag Race'', and seasons one and five of '' RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars''. Alexis Mateo is also drag mother of viral sensation and "RuGirl" Vanessa Vanjie Mateo. Early life Born in 1979, Alexis Mateo began her drag career in Puerto Rico's gay nightclub circuit before relocating in 2001 to Orlando, Florida, where she worked as a dancer and performer at Disney World. In addition to his drag career, which began in 2006, he is a fashion designer and has won the 2001 Inter Fashion Award for Best Fashion Designer. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooke Lynn Hytes
Brooke Lynn Hytes is the stage name of Brock Edward Hayhoe (born March 10, 1986), a Canadian drag queen, ballet dancer, performer, and television personality. After working as a dancer with Cape Town City Ballet and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Hytes achieved international recognition for competing on the eleventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''; Hytes placed second, only to winner Yvie Oddly. Hytes is the first Canadian to compete in the series. Hytes is also a main judge on the spin-off series ''Canada's Drag Race'', becoming the first ''Drag Race'' contestant to become a full-time judge in the franchise. Early life Hayhoe was born on March 10, 1986, in Toronto. He attended high school at Etobicoke School of the Arts. When he was 15, he started to take ballet at the National Ballet School of Canada for five years. He came out as gay when he was 18. He is of Swedish and French descent. Career At 20, Hytes moved to South Africa and performed at the Cape Town Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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