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A 23-year-old transgender woman claims she was discriminated against after she was removed from Miss Universe Canada because she was not "naturally born female."

Atlantic City is an adults’ playground, and never more so than during January’s Miss’d America Pageant, when LGBTs took over the Boardwalk and flipped some wigs.

Miss Gay USofA Newcomer’s Annual Pageant was held this Saturday at the Honey Pot in Tampa, FL. Contestants wowed the judges and an audience of over 400 people with their outrageous costumes and fabulous performances, and in the end Miss Arianna Brown of Texas was crowned the winner for 2011. EDGE has all the hot and sexy photos!

Nothing plumbs the depths of fashion’s surrealism as fantastically as a beauty pageant - and particularly the Miss’d America Pageant in Atlantic City, which this years was an amalgam of "Project Runway" and Cher’s closet.

Atlantic City crowns our new Boardwalk Empress...introducing Miss’d America 2011: Miss Kitty Hiccups!

She’s back! Just when you thought it was safe to walk down the Atlantic City Boardwalk, Miss’d America is returning to Atlantic City’s historic Boardwalk Hall on Sunday, the 16th of January, 2011 in a pageant called "Boardwalk Empress."

The sixth annual Miss International Queen contest saw a first when a South Korean beauty took the top title on Nov. 19.