miss universe
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Post-Trump, Miss Universe Welcomed Its 1st Openly Transgender Contestant in 2018
She didn’t take home the crown, but Spain’s Angela Ponce made history this year as the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Miss Universe pageant on Dec. 16 in Bangkok, Thailand. It was a relatively quiet, but strikingly progressive inclusion in an industry long lambasted for its regressive politics and representations—and even more…
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Beauty Beats Brexit: Heptathlete Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers Is the 1st Black Miss Universe Great Britain
Here’s what you call a game-changer: For the first time in its 66-year history, Miss Universe Great Britain—the qualifying pageant for the Miss Universe competition—gave the crown to a black woman. But the history-making honor didn’t go to your average pageant queen; winner Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers is a heptathlete with a head full of gorgeous locs,…
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Survey Says…Steve Fucked Up. But It Is and Isn't His Fault. (It's His Fault.)
Being live is a bitch. Just ask Steve Harvey who managed to fuck up the most important part of the Miss Universe pageant that I’m fairly certain the vast majority of us had no clue was happening. Actually, that’s not true. After every move on Words With Friends, an ad for the show would pop…