I Want What They Have: Miss Puerto Rico and Miss Argentina
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Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we’ll be examining the celebrity couples—or, occasionally, good friends—that give us hope for our own romantic futures and trying to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds.
When I first heard that 2020’s Miss Puerto Rico, Fabiola Valentín, had secretly gotten married to Mariana Varela, who was crowned Miss Argentina in the same year, I’ll be honest—I thought I was hallucinating. A secret queer femme romance born out of pageant culture? When my two favorite things in this world are LGBTQ+ love stories and the movie Miss Congeniality? Are you kidding me?
Valentin and Varela’s once-secret romance is now a matter of public record, as the brand-new power couple of the year (make that the century) revealed on Instagram on Thursday that they had gotten married on October 28, 2022.
Valentín and Varela met while representing their respective home countries at the 2020 Miss Grand International competition, and in a surprising sign of progress, the organization actually wished the couple well on social media. (Maybe this is on me for assuming a pageant wouldn’t be down with two of its contestants having a big gay wedding, but seriously, we love to see it! What do I really know about pageants, anyway, that I didn’t learn from the aforementioned Miss Congeniality or from the similarly excellent black comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous?)
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