Miss Gay USofA

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Houston, Texas based MGA promoter Jerry Bird bought the bankrupt Miss Gay USA festival from former MGA Jimi Dee in 1985. Within a few years he took the festival from a small 12 contestant affair to a national showcase with over 80 individuals. In 1986, the primary Miss Gay USA Naomi Sims topped Michael Andrews. In the mid-1990s the competition turned into renamed Miss Gay USofA after court cases and legal threats from the owner of Miss USA, Donald Trump, who placed a cease and desist order until verbiage can be agreed upon that allowed for each competitions to keep with out confusion or discrimination.

There were a wide variety of contestants within the Miss USofA System, and plenty of USofA titleholders also count number the Miss Gay America crown as accomplishments in female impersonation. These encompass:

Naomi Sims, Miss Gay USA 1979 (Miss Gay America 1985); Michael Andrews, Miss Gay USA 1986 (Miss Gay America 1977); Jacquelyn DeVaroe, Miss Gay USofA 1997 (Miss Gay America 1994); Lauren Taylor, Miss Gay USofA 1998 (Miss Gay America 1997); Alyssa Edwards, Miss Gay USofA 2006 (Miss Gay America 2010, though Edwards became stripped of the identify some quick months after triumphing the crown); Dominique Sanchez, Miss Gay USofA 2010 (Miss Gay America 2003); Luscious, Miss Gay USofA 2011 (Miss Gay America 2007), and, Asia O'Hara, Miss Gay USofA 2007 (Miss Gay America 2016).