Dec 23, 2017 · The Miss America Organization (MAO) suspended CEO Sam Haskell Friday, one day after the HuffPost broke a story revealing three years of internal emails that have not made former pageant contestants

July 23, 1984: Vanessa Williams resigns as Miss America after Penthouse magazine announces it will publish photos of her posing nude

Deidre Downs Gunn, a former Miss America and now an Alabama obstetrician-gynecologist, married Abbott Jones last weekend in Birmingham.

History. The Miss USA pageant was conceived in 1950 when Yolande Betbeze, winner of the rival Miss America pageant, refused to pose for …

Apr 24, 2018 · Deidre Downs Gunn, who was crowned Miss America in 2005 and is now a doctor, walked down the aisle with her spouse, attorney Abbott Jones, in Alabama.

Dec 22, 2017 · Three executives of the Miss America Organization resigned on Saturday after reports that the pageant’s leadership had attacked and derided former pageant winners in emails. Dan Meyers, a spokesman for Miss America, said the organization had accepted the resignations of Sam Haskell, the chief

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — When Deidre Downs was crowned Miss America more than a decade ago, the idea of legalized gay marriage and Miss America later marrying her same-sex partner

Miss America 2005 Deidre Downs married her same-sex partner, attorney Abbott Jones at the Birmingham Museum of Art.

When Deidre Downs was crowned Miss America more than a decade ago, the idea of legalized gay marriage and Miss America later marrying her same-sex partner in Alabama would have been an unimaginable future.

The first ever openly lesbian Miss America contestant took the stage for the first time during the second night of the preliminary competition on Wednesday. Miss Missouri Erin O’Flaherty, 23, strutted her stuff during the swimsuit competition and spoke about National Suicide Prevention Week during