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Miss Gay America is a national pageant for female impersonators.Established in 1972, the pageant is based on the Miss America contest and follows a similar format. [1]Each year, contestants compete at various city, state, and direct regional preliminaries for the opportunity to advance to the official Miss Gay America pageant.
A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include other criteria, such as personality, intelligence, talent, character, causes, and charitable involvement, through closed-door interviews with judges, or the conventional question-and-answer round(s) in the finals.
The criteria for the Big Four inclusion are based on specific standards such as the pageant's international prominence and prestige accepted by mainstream media; the quality and quantity of crowned delegates recognized by international franchisees; the winner's post pageant activities; the pageant's longevity, consistency, and history; the ...
Miss Grand International was founded in 2013 by Nawat Itsaragrisil, a Thai television host and producer.The pageant was founded in Thailand amidst a political crisis, inspiring the organizers to use the slogan 'No mob, Stop the Wars' as part of its identity, [5] later rephrased to 'Stop the War and Violence' in the following year.
Miss Teen International is an international beauty pageant for girls aged 15–19 years of all nationalities, operated by Ecuadorian businessman Rodrigo Moreira, owner of all intellectual property rights in Brazil, [1] Chile, [2] Costa Rica, [3] Dominican Republic, [4] El Salvador, [5] Ecuador, [6] Mexico [7] and Panama.
The Miss Gay Philippines pageant consists of traditional costumes, an opening number, swimsuits and evening gowns. After the evening gowns presentation, there is an elimination round to narrow down the contestants. [9] The last portion of the competition is a question-and-answer session with the remaining contestants.
The root of the disconnect between the number of women on stage and the number of women in the crowd may lie partially in the male-dominated subcultures these festivals were founded out of, as Slate writer Forrest Wickman argued in 2013: “The real problem at most of these festivals lies in the alternative subcultures they celebrate.
The oldest pageant still in operation today is the Miss America pageant, which was organized in 1921 by a local businessman to entice tourists to Atlantic City, New Jersey. [22] The pageant hosted the winners of local newspaper beauty contests in the "Inter-City Beauty" Contest, attended by over one hundred thousand people.