Scott Burk at Miss Gay Missouri USofA last weekend with Jodie Santana, Alicia Markstone, and Angelina Mornett. (Photo courtesy Scott Burk) Scott Burk, Joe Hoselton assume the mantle of Gay USofA owners TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editornash@dallasvoice.com The Miss Gay USofA pageant has been around since 1979 (although up until 1995 it was known as Miss Gay USA), and since 1985, the pageant system had been owned by Houstonian Jerry Bird and his sister, Miss Linda.
That all changed beginning in late August, when a string of unexpected deaths began that have left the Gay USofA pageant system, in the words of then-executive vice president Scott Burk, devastated and shaken.