The participants of the Miss Italia 2019 competition are presented on September 06, 2019 in Jesolo, Italy.Stefano Mazzola / Getty Images Contributor In July, the Miss Italy pageant banned ...

Men: They can do anything women can do, only better. At least, that seems to be what beauty pageants are preaching these days. Amid recent signs of progress in beauty pageants — a black woman winning ...

An activist from Italy says more than 100 trans men have entered the Miss Italy pageant in protest of its new policy requiring entrants to be "a woman from birth" The policy came on the heels of a ...

Contestants at the 2013 Miss America pageant.Mallory Hagan (center) at the Miss America 2013 pageant. Miss America 2013 Mallory Hagan said she had to follow strict rules against men during her reign.

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

Transgender men are protesting Miss Italy’s ban on trans women competing by entering the pageant themselves. The protest comes after comments made by Miss Italy’s official patron Patrizia Mirigliani ...

After a pageant representative said transgender women could not compete in the Miss Italy contest, more than 100 transgender men signed up, following the lead of Federico Barbarossa who turned the ...

Wearing a black dress with a fringe, Winnie White shimmied around the stage in William Byrd High School's auditorium. A man sitting nearby watched as she danced behind him and caressed his face with ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - A community theater group is hosting a quirky beauty pageant to raise money. Magnolia Arts Center is calling it the Miss-Cast Beauty Pageant. On June 17, eleven men will ...

More than 100 transgender men have entered the Miss Italy pageant this week, according to an activist leading a protest against recent comments by the pageant’s organizer, who said trans women ...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, SC (WTOC) - What better way to start out Spring than with a beauty pageant. The Beaufort Beauties Beauty Pagent is this Saturday and it is not just any beauty pageant. The men ...

In July, the Miss Italy pageant banned non-"biological women" from competing. To protest, dozens of transgender men signed up for the contest to reveal the rule's hypocrisy. Trans activist Federico ...