“With hard work, you can do anything,” said fashion designer R’Bonney Gabriel. Today, as Miss Universe 2022, she wants to inspire young women everywhere with her message. Just last year, the Houston resident clinched wins at the Miss Texas USA pageant, followed three months later at the Miss USA competition, and then three months later,…

Miss Universe crowned its next titleholder, but it was entirely overshadowed by its new owner, Anne Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip, who is transgender. It may give an edge to future trans contestants, merely for the virtue of having a trans titleholder. It is clear that the new owner is a champion of transgender people, so it would…

EILAT, Israel—Harnaaz Sandhu of India was crowned the 70th Miss Universe on Sunday, topping a field of some 80 contestants. The previously reigning Miss Universe, Andrea Meza of Mexico, crowned her successor, a Bollywood actress, in the Israeli Red Sea resort town of Eilat. The pageant was held in the middle of the night, wrapping…