Origins
The IMG was started in 2004 by Don Spradlin with an initial contest in San Francisco, California called the "Cutest of the Castro Contest" that showcased 12 men representing local businesses in the gay district of San Francisco known as the Castro District. These twelve men were judged on-stage during the 2004 Castro Street Fair and the winner of that contest was Blair Sheppard, who became the San Francisco representative to the first United States Mr. Gay Competition in October 2005.
Read more about this topic: International Mr Gay Competition
Famous quotes containing the word origins:
“Grown onto every inch of plate, except
Where the hinges let it move, were living things,
Barnacles, mussels, water weeds—and one
Blue bit of polished glass, glued there by time:
The origins of art.”
—Howard Moss (b. 1922)
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. “Material Differences,” Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)
“Lucretius
Sings his great theory of natural origins and of wise conduct; Plato
smiling carves dreams, bright cells
Of incorruptible wax to hive the Greek honey.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)