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Swe Zin Htet (Burmese: ဆွေဇင်ထက်; born 16 November 1998) is a Burmese model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Myanmar 2019.

In November 2019, Swe Zin Htet came out as a lesbian, and later that year she became the first openly lesbian woman to compete in a Miss Universe competition. Julia Lemigova of the Soviet Union competed in Miss Universe 1991, Patricia Yurena Rodríguez of Spain competed in the Miss Universe 2013 competition, and Mariana Varela of Argentina competed in Miss Universe 2019 with Htet, but they did not come out until after their respective competitions.

Pageantry

Miss Supranational Myanmar

Swe Zin Htet begun her pageantry career after winning Miss Supranational Myanmar 2016

Miss Supranational

she placed in the top ten and won Miss Personality title at Miss Supranational 2016.

Miss Universe Myanmar

On May 31, 2019, Swe Zin Htet was crowned as Miss Universe Myanmar 2019 by previous titleholder Hnin Thway Yu Aung. She will be Myanmar's next representative to Miss Universe.

Miss Universe 2019

As Miss Universe Myanmar, she represented Myanmar in the Miss Universe 2019 competition. At the end of event, she was unplaced.

Personal life

She has been in a relationship with singer Gae Gae.

References

1. "Happy Birthday Our Beauty Queen Superman!". Miss Universe Myanmar. 16 November 2019.
2. "Contestants". MUO. Archived from the original on 1 January 2020. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
3. "Hoa hậu Myanmar thừa nhận đồng tính ngay khi thi Miss Universe 2019: Đầy bản lĩnh và đáng nể phục!" (in Vietnamese). 30 November 2019.
4. "#MissUniverseMyanmar2019 #RoadToMissUniverse2019". Swe Zin Htet. 29 November 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-12-24.
5. Herbst, Diane (6 December 2019). "Miss Universe's First Openly Gay Contestant Came Out Days Ago: 'I Just Started a New Chapter'". People.
6. "India wins 2nd Miss Supranational title!". Miss Supranational. 21 March 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
7. Mu Xuequan (1 June 2019). "Swe Zin Htet from Kayin state crowned Miss Universe Myanmar". Xinhua Net. Archived from the original on May 31, 2019.
8. Mu Xuequan (1 June 2019). "Swe Zin Htet from Kayin state crowned Miss Universe Myanmar". Xinhua Net. Archived from the original on May 31, 2019.
9. "လိင်တူချစ်သူတဦးအဖြစ် ဝန်ခံခဲ့တဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲ့ မယ်စကြာဝဠာ အလှမယ် ဆွေဇင်ထက်". 9 December 2019.

External links

• Swe Zin Htet on Instagram

• 1999 births
• Burmese beauty pageant winners
• Burmese female models
• Burmese lesbians
• Burmese LGBTQ models
• Lesbian models
• Living people
• Miss Universe 2019 contestants
• Miss Universe Myanmar winners
• People from Kayin State
• 21st-century Burmese LGBTQ people
• LGBTQ beauty pageant winners