She left PEOPLE in 2015. The origins of beauty pageants can be traced to ancient Greece and the medieval age. According to PBS, pageants started as a "contest of physique" at festivals and ...

A 70-year-old playwright and self-proclaimed “drag king” took home the crown last week at the Big Apple’s first-ever all-ages, all-gender beauty pageant — a title she won thanks to a ...

The popularity of the Miss America pageant led to a variety of beauty contests — many during the 1950s, a golden age for pageants. Some events were more important, politically and socially ...