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Monroe Lace via The Bay Area Reporter A man who was crowned “Miss San Francisco” will compete in the 2023 Miss California Pageant in July. Monroe Lace, a man who identifies as a woman, won the Miss San Francisco pageant in March, qualifying the “beauty queen” to compete for the Miss California title next month. Lace is the first trans-identifying man to be crowned Miss San Francisco in the competition’s 99-year history. “Every time I put on the sash, the weight of it reminds me of the weight of my job; of the responsibility I have to make a difference...

LOS ANGELES, July 11 (Xinhua) -- A San Diego semi-finalist on " American Idol 8" and winner of other beauty pageants was crowned the title of Miss California 2010 overnight, well on the way in search of the tantalizing title of Miss America in six months time. Ariana Afsar, currently a freshman at University of California, Los Angeles, succeeded Kristy Cavinder, Miss California 2009 at a pageant held in Fresno, California on Saturday night. She has won various awards including a 25,000-U.S.-dollar cash prize in the junior teen Miss America competition and won the "Del Mar TV Idol" contest held...

Arianna Afsar from San Diego is the new Miss California 2010, taking the place of Kristy Cavinder, Miss California 2009 (not the ever controversial Christian Carrie Prejean, also from San Diego, who was Miss California 2009 as part of the Miss USA pagent) Arianna Afsar won the title last night, July 10, in Fresno, CA. Miss Afsar is currently a freshman at UCLA and will be able to compete in January for the title of Miss America. Arianna's platform for the Miss California competition was Adopt-A-Grandfriend - an organization she founded in 2005 whose goal is to decrease the isolation...

Is 23 yr old Lauren Ashley Miss Beverly Hills or isn't she? According to the Associated Press: "Keith Lewis, a K2 Productions stage director for the Miss California USA pageant, told the Los Angeles Times that contestants choose the area they represent and Ashley chose to compete as Miss Beverly Hills in November 2010." Miss Lauren Ashley is making waves for her recent comments regarding God's view of homosexuality. (see related article for details) Much like Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California from San Diego who received a plethora of media attention for her remarks on same-sex marriage vs. traditional...

The mayor of Beverly Hills is outraged over a Miss California USA contestant who spoke out against same-sex marriage and said she represented the city in the pageant. In a statement Wednesday, Mayor Nancy Krasne said that 23-year-old Lauren Ashley lives in Pasadena and doesn't represent Beverly Hills in any capacity. She said she was shocked to see statements made by a beauty pageant contestant under the name of Beverly Hills, "which has a long history of tolerance and respect."

Lauren Ashley, Miss Beverly Hills 2010, is in the news, reported as a beauty queen saying: "God wants gays dead" and "gays should be murdered" - but is that actually what she said, or is she misunderstood? According to Fox News, Lauren Ashley said: "The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman. In Leviticus it says, 'If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.' The Bible is pretty black and white...

It looks like Carrie Prejean spoke too soon when she called her recent sex tape the "biggest mistake" of her life. Either the seven other sex tapes that have just surfaced aren't actually salacious, or else the former Miss California has a little more to atone for. RadarOnline.com has just learned that the dethroned beauty queen has no less than eight sex tapes and 30 naked photos to her name. As in her previous sex tape, she performs solo on each video.

It looks like Carrie Prejean spoke too soon when she called her recent sex tape the "biggest mistake" of her life. Either the seven other sex tapes that have just surfaced aren't actually salacious, or else the former Miss California has a little more to atone for. RadarOnline.com has just learned that the dethroned beauty queen has no less than eight sex tapes and 30 naked photos to her name. As in her previous sex tape, she performs solo on each video. Some of the new sexy photographs that have been unearthed Prejean allegedly took herself, of own reflection in...

Carrie Prejean on Tuesday defended a recently surfaced erotic video of her as a youthful indiscretion and questioned whether it could actually be called a “sex tape” since no one else appears in it. Prejean admitted to making the video of herself and sending it to her boyfriend when she was 17 years old.

Carrie Prejean, former Miss California who was fired under scandal, has dropped her lawsuit against pageant officials. Both parties have withdrawn their lawsuits. The statement reads “ Carrie Prejean, Keith Lewis, and K2 productions have dropped their claim against each other and wish each other the best in their future endeavors.” “We’re so glad to be back in the business of beauty and out of the litigious system that is Carrie Prejean,” Lewis told the Daily News. “It’s wonderful to put this behind us.” The reason, as alleged by TMZ, Carrie settled the suit is that the pageant officials were...

It was bound to happen - an inevitable character assault on former Miss California Carrie Prejean by a host from MSNBC, the place for misogyny, after K2 Productions, the company that directs the Miss California USA pageant, filed a publicity-seeking, lawsuit. Prejean unintentionally created a firestorm when she answered a question from self-proclaimed gay rights activist and gossip blogger Perez Hilton during the Miss USA pageant. Her offence was to say that she believed marriage should be between a man and a woman. On MSNBC's Oct. 20 "Countdown," host Keith Olbermann dedicated part of a segment with the Village Voice's...

The Miss California anti-gay marriage battle wages on. Last week, outspoken anti-gay marriage advocate Carrie Prejean was ousted from her position for not fulfilling her contract and now, her replacement Tami Farrell has stated she believes marriage is "between a man and a woman," Farrell stated in a television interview that she does not believe in gay marriage but also stated: "I don't think I have the right or anybody has the right to tell somebody who they can or can't love." Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who was given a second chance earlier, lost her title after she...

Miss California USA Pageant Director Keith Lewis explained the decision to fire then-Miss California Carrie Prejean in the following statement: “This was a decision based solely on contract violations including Ms. Prejean’s unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of the Miss California USA organization.” But In an exclusive interview with Big Hollywood, Ms. Prejean’s attorney, Charles S. LiMandri, who says that he and his client learned of the firing during a phone call from gossip site TMZ, vehemently denies those allegations. “She greeted troops, ‘Fox and Friends,’ she was lined up for the Special Olympics this weekend. It is pure...

Let me begin by saying I treasure the opportunity I’ve had to represent the great State of California, and I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to the thousands of Californians, and other Americans, I have met and who have stood with me through this controversial firestorm. One of the many enduring things about being Miss California USA was the opportunity to get to meet and know so many wonderful people. I would not be the strong, courageous woman I am today without your support, and prayers. I would like to thank Mr. Donald Trump and his organization for...

Tami Farrell, the newly crowned beauty queen who is replacing the ousted Carrie Prejean as Miss California, apparently holds the same view as her predecessor, Carrie Prejean, that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Fox News host Neil Cavuto asked Farrell, who is Christian, on his show today: "[Prejean] went out and said that a marriage is between a man and a woman. Do you share that view?" Farrell responded in the affirmative with a simple, "Uh huh." "You do, OK," said Cavuto. Farrell quickly added: "I don't think that I have the right or anybody has...

Tami Farrell has taken over Carrie Prejean's responsibilities as Miss California. The former first runner up was pressed into service after Prejean was fired by Donald Trump and pageant officials on Wednesday. FOXNews.com got the first online interview with Farrell, and asked her about the tumultuous past 24 hours. PHOTOS: Click for pics of Tami Farell. FOX: Congratulations. Bit of a strange way of becoming Miss California? Tami Farrell: Yes, it was definitely a crazy phone call to receive, but I’m excited to represent the state. I only found out yesterday! It was definitely some interesting news to receive but...

I am proud to be an American, and blessed to have had the opportunity to exercise my freedom of speech. I am excited and looking forward to where God leads me in the future. I know He has big plans for me. I am proud to be the strong woman God has molded me to be. I will always stand for the truth, respectfully, and never back down.

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TMZ.com: Miss USA Prejean Stripped Of Title The entertainment gossip website, TMZ.com, has announced that Miss USA pageant winner, Carrie Prejean, has been stripped of her title. According to the website, the termination was issued because Prejean had violated the terms of the pageant contract. Questions arose about semi-nude photographs taken of her as a teenager and her association with a conservative advocacy group for marriage, pageant owner Donald Trump said in May. Carrie Prejean's comments about her opposition to same-sex marriage ignited a media firestorm after a celebrity judge suggested her response may have cost her the Miss USA...

Controversy keeps following Miss California USA Carrie Prejean: Now a woman claims to have had a lesbian relationship with the "opposite marriage" crusader's mother. Valerie Vetrano of Corona, Calif., told Star magazine she and Prejean's mother, Francine Coppola, "dated," and the relationship ended shortly before Carrie Prejean was in the Miss USA competition. "I did date her," Vetrano, who is openly gay, told ABCNews.com. "I'm not going to deny it, but I'm not going to say anything else." Both Coppola and Prejean declined to comment on the ABC story.