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They call us
byukoneras, a play on the words
beauty contest. We reigned in every nook and cranny where a stage could be erected, whether on the street during a town fiesta, at a basketball court, on a campaign sortie for a running politician, in hotel ballrooms, or prestigious venues like the PICC, on the very stage where the 1994 Miss Universe pageant was held.
We reigned in the ’80s and the ’90s, long before the internet and social media, where surgical enhancements were still at their infancy, and sex-change operations were only a pipe dream for Filipino gays.
The term