Vivian's Voice - August 2024

Hello lovelies! August has came and gone before my very eyes. My son started back to school as a first grader which is WILD. He will always be my tiny little baby angel but when they say kids grow up in the blink of an eye, it's true. He has acclimated well and likes his teacher so fingers crossed he has a great year! 

I had my first preliminary this month as well. We opened the season with Miss Gay Metropolitan America, with Trixie LaRue as the promoter. Trixie went above and beyond to welcome me and keep me in line. Congratulations to your new Miss Gay Metropolitan America, Venus O'Hara and her 1st alternate, Angel Sedique!! What a fabulous team they will be at state! Metro, was my first prelim and also a learning experience for me. I made several notes as it commenced lol and sometimes things just can't help but go wrong. Little things like my tooth brush falling in the toilet at the hotel, a dress that I had taken in didn't fit, I brought no back up options so I had to borrow a dress to sit at the judges table. Shoutout to Kaycee Adam's for being a sister and lending me a dress! We were a little crunched on time with events going on at the venue before and after the pageant so we definitely had to keep things moving! I can be a bit of a perfectionist especially when it comes to my look and I was running like a chicken with its head cut off. Miss Gay Missouri America has DUTIES, honey, and you have to be prepared to be at certain places at certain times and when I got done with my first number I had to change to sit at the judges table for the pageant to begin and baby, I was sweating. My forehead makeup was gone, I had to borrow a dress because the one I brought didn't fit, I had no time to change shoes so I wore black thigh high boots that I wore for my number, threw a wig on and the crown and off I went. These things might not sound big to some but I always want to look my best and represent excellence in the best way and I felt like a hodge-podge troglodyte sweaty mess lmao. It was fine though. I did my job and the pageant went on and I LEARNED. I also got to spend quite a bit of time with #49, Akasha Royale. She was a judge and we got to go to lunch and out for drinks and she even surprised me with a lovely gift basket full of letters from formers, special trinkets, and things I would need to help me reign as successfully as possible. It was so sweet and I enjoyed seeing that side of her. You may go into the competition thinking you're fully ready for the job that is Miss Gay Missouri America but you really don't know what it's like until you actually do it. The one who filled the shoes before you will play a role in your reign and be a guide for you. I am thankful to have an amazing guide and a coven of sisters that love and respect me and have my back. I learned from my mistakes and I am making sure to be more prepared and polished then I was the last time but I am human and I am sure there will be many other things that will arise as I reign but each time I'll be more prepared than I was the time before. Onward and upward into my reign. Til next time...
 Xoxo, 
The 50th, 
Miss Gay Missouri America, 

Vivian Versace