While Argentina is busy bickering about gay marriage, Venezuela, another South American country, is celebrating fat drag queens!  This year will be the first year of a beautiful pageant that throws out the taboo, forgets stereotypes and celebrates people for who they really are:  Miss Fat Gay Venezuela!

“We want to show that we too can be beautiful and sexy,” said Alexander Armas, 50, an organiser whose rotund figure has earned the nickname Compote. “We’re invaded by images of thin people. It’s time to do something about it.”

“I’m a queen-plus and I love my body. And I have a great boyfriend who loves me fat,” said La Maracucha, a veteran drag queen.

We so loves the idea!

OK, so Chris March will not be participating, but that is what I instantly thought of when hearing of this.  God, I love Chris!  I’d love to spend a weekend with him the next time we are in NYC.  Chris, if you have Google Alerts setup on yourself and catch this, reach out to me and lets hook it up!

(via Guardian UK)

Hell Yeah! Miss Fat Gay Venezuela originally appeared on Gay Vantage on December 6, 2009.