Behind the Rhinestones: Miss Gay Maryland

april 7, 2003  01:01 pm
Behind the Rhinestones: Miss Gay Maryland
Anna Ditkoff goes to the back bar of the Hippo Club, awash with taffeta and sequins as contestants in the Miss Gay Maryland pageant grimly apply makeup and breasts. "It's worth everything to be crowned Miss Maryland," one contestant tells her. The 19-year-old Maryland pageant is considered one of the toughest and most prestigious on the road to Miss Gay America, in New Orleans this year.