Organizers of the Mr. Gay World pageant have filed a defamation lawsuit against a South Africa man who won the event in 2021.
Loew Breyenbach, a 33-year-old man from Boksburg, South Africa, resigned as Mr. Gay World last December, two months after winning the pageant due to what he describes as the unfair contact he signed with organizers.
Breytenbach has accused pageant organizers of tarnishing his reputation because he was already a media personality before he entered the competition.
Breytenbach added he thought the Mr. Gay World competition was a platform he could use to broaden his charity work and organizers had the interests of the LGBTQ and intersex community at heart. “I think it is my right to know what happens to the money I raise for the organization in my capacity as Mr.