The entrance to the 2022 Miss Calendar Girl beauty pageant would be easy to miss — tucked away at the back of the Retreat Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa — were it not for the music being so loud you ...

The pageant queen of the 1933 Orange Parade in Riverside was Edna Knoll. When was the last time you even heard about a beauty pageant? (Los Angeles Times archive / UCLA Library) There she … isn’t.

HOUSTON -- It has all the elements of a typical beauty pageant. Girls and boys of all ages take the stage. There are crowns, sashes, and trophies, but this pageant is a little different. Your outer ...

It's not all about glitz, glamor, crowns and sashes — at least not according to current contestants from across the country Over the decades, pageantry has become somewhat stigmatized due to pop ...

In May 2024, Voigt made history as the first Miss USA winner to relinquish the crown Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She covers influencers and viral, trending content ...

For most contestants, competing in Miss Calendar Girl, a pageant for LGBTQ South Africans, regardless of whether they've transitioned, is about... The entrance to the 2022 Miss Calendar Girl beauty ...

When was the last time you watched a crown-and-sash pageant? Or even read any news about a Miss-So-and-So beauty queen? The last I remember were in movies: “Miss Congeniality,” and Holly Hunter’s ...

Over the decades, pageantry has become somewhat stigmatized due to pop culture representations and media headlines, but contestants maintain that there really is more than meets the eye PEOPLE polled ...