Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/miss-piel-canela-puerto-rico/ Our Thing Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:30:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://remezcla.com/wp-content/themes/remezcla/assets/images/social/precomposed-144x144.png Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/miss-piel-canela-puerto-rico/ 144 144 ‘Everything is Possible’: Puerto Rico’s First Trans Beauty Queen Inspires Hope for Progress https://remezcla.com/culture/puerto-rico-first-trans-beauty-queen-paolys-reyes-progress/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 20:06:17 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?p=298094 Anti-trans violence weighs heavier in the air than humidity for trans Puerto Ricans. In the stretch of a single year, seven of their brothers and sisters have been killed. But just this month, Paolys Reyes became the first-ever trans woman to win one of the island’s beauty pageants, Miss Piel Canela Puerto Rico. Another trans

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