2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
It seems incredible that although Miss Universe has seen all kinds of participants parade through its stages - including the historical step of its first transgender Miss - in the entire history of the pageant, an openly gay beauty queen had never participated.
But that has changed and right in the 2019 edition of the contest we saw Swe Zin Htet parade, the beauty queen of Myanmar who has made history by coming out of the closet for days before the contest to become her first openly lesbian participant.
"I want to tell the world to embrace the LGBTQ + community and their right to choose their own path and pursue happiness," the girl exclaimed - known to her fans as "Superman" - to the Miss Universe Missosology blog. "We should always promote the freedom to choose and promote equality," continued the beautiful 21-year-old girl.
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Incredibly, it had to be a woman born in the Asian continent who set the example: in Myanmar, same-sex marriage has not been legalized. Even all those who maintain intimate relationships with a person of the same sex face "sentences of between 10 years and life imprisonment," according to the laws of the country.
During her participation in the contest, held in Atlanta, Goergia, Htet explained to People that she had been physically attracted to people of the same gender since she was approximately 15 years old. Accepting herself "was a little difficult," she explained. "But after a while I felt like I was a lesbian and kind of accepted it."
The same thing happened with his parents. "At first they were angry, they did not accept me," explained the lady. "But later when they learned more about the LGBTQ community they started to accept me."
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