Former Miss Kentucky winner Djuan Trent came out of the closet in 2014. She believes that this decision changed the perception of what a beauty queen is.
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Miss Spain Comes Out on Instagram
Crowned Miss Spain, Patricia Yurena Rodriguez has made history as the first national beauty pageant winner to come out as gay.
She revealed her relationship on Instagram, where she’s got over 46,000 followers, labelling this photo ‘Romeo and Juliet’.
Rodriguez told Spanish newspaper La Nacion
“I do not regret what I did. I’m thrilled with what is happening to me… Really, I would love to one day live in a society where coming out is no longer necessary because we don’t make assumptions about one another’s sexuality and homophobia is laid to rest. For now, that is more of an ideal than it is a reality. But if you want to see that ideal become a reality and you have the courage to change history.”
Patricia Yurena Rodriguez
Rodriguez and her girlfriend have been together for several months, after meeting through mutual friends.
Since posting her couple photo, the beauty queen has thanked her supporters on Instagram for their kind words too.
“I published quite naturally and impulsively. I appreciate the outpouring of support and even more to rejoice in my happiness. Thank you!!”
Patricia Yurena Rodriguez
Beauty Queen, African American, Queer – Djuan Trent Talks to Story Magazine
Djuan Trent was crowned Miss Kentucky 2010 and then went to be a top ten semi-finalist in the Miss America Pageant in 2011 (where she voted the first-ever “Contestants’ Choice”).
However, what really put Miss Trent in the media spotlight was when she announced to the world that she was ‘Queer’.
Yes, ‘Queer’ not a lesbian or Gay, but Queer. In a recent interview with Story – The Magazine she spoke openly about how she feels about it all…
“I had a hard time just saying I’m a lesbian because a lot of the lesbians I knew were women who felt they never had any kind of connection with a man; they could never be with a man because it felt completely unnatural to them, and that wasn’t my story,” she says. “I have been with men, and it was never something like ‘Eww, this feels so unnatural.’”
Listen to the interview below: Former Miss Kentucky On Why She Calls Herself ‘Queer’