July 15, 1956: An estimated half a million people crowded onto Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach for what The Times called a “tidal wave of beauty” as the Miss Universe Pageant held its annual ...

In the days before the Miss America pageant last year, we asked pageant people and passersby on the Atlantic City Boardwalk to show us their pageant faces. They were already primed for the request, ...

A Danish model was crowned Miss Universe on Saturday, and avid watchers of the famed competition are celebrating the winner being a biological woman following the pageant’s decision permitting ...

That's sort of like the sort of pageant wave. We don't wave like that anymore. We just wave like regular people. Either you, like, do one of these or wave like this, or you give, like, the big, the ...

More than two dozen women are competing for a crown that has been tarnished with controversy in the past year. , and it is not known how the tiarra tussle of the past will affect the pageant's future.

Beauty pageants have haunted Hilary Levey Friedman since childhood. “I can’t remember ever not knowing what a beauty pageant was,” the Brown University sociologist writes in the opening pages of “Here ...

Mikelle is the former editorial director of digital for PrideMedia, guiding digital editorial and social across Out, The Advocate, Pride.com, Out Traveler, and Plus. After starting as a freelancer for ...

But he never wore a glittery crown, had the pageant wave down, or wore funky shoes. Miss America, Atlantic City's own prodigal daughter, is coming home after a six-year fling in Las Vegas. And the ...

Costa Mesa High School’s drama students will soon lift the curtain on a musical that revels in the backstage drama of beauty pageants, and on Thursday they researched the real thing. Angela ...