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First gay Miss America Deidre Downs and wife expecting baby girl

The Miss USA pageant was conceived in when Yolande Betbeze , winner of the Miss America pageant, refused to pose for publicity pictures while wearing a swimsuit. Pageant sponsor Catalina decided to pull their sponsorship of the pageant and create their own competition. Many states did not compete every year during the first two decades of the pageant's history. Since the s, each state and the District of Columbia have sent a delegate each year. Alaska first competed in and Hawaii in Both had competed at Miss Universe until this time. The pageant aired on CBS from until and for many years was known for having a CBS game show host as pageant host. The show's highest ratings were in the early s when it regularly topped the Nielsen ratings. This occurred in , , , , and The only instance when a first runner-up assumed the title of Miss USA before this period was in , when Mary Leona Gage of Maryland resigned after it was discovered she was married.

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Deidre Downs, right, are expecting a baby girl in September. Photo courtesy of Abbott and Deidre Downs. A UAB obstetrician-gynecologist known professionally as Dr.

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The first Miss America to marry a same sex partner shared she is expecting a baby with her wife this September. On an episode of the podcast Pregnantish , Dr.

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First Miss America to marry a woman announces they're having a baby

When the Miss America of was looking for love a few years ago she set up a profile on a dating site under a false name and with no photograph. Deidre Downs Gunn had told friends and family that she was gay, but she lived in Birmingham, Alabama, where she was well-known as a former pageant winner. After a week she revealed her identity to a woman she had been chatting to before their first date. Within a year, they married and Downs Gunn became the first winner of the pageant to.

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