When beauty pageants rose to popularity during the women's suffrage movement, they were hailed as the feminist event of the century. Pageants served as an arena for its participants to celebrate being ...

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 ...

In the following years, pageants became more sensational as women traded their politically forward sashes for figure-fitting gowns and skimpy bikinis. Looks suddenly became a primary focus in ...

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 ...