Swe Zin Htet

In this Burmese name, the given name is Swe Zin Htet. There is no family name.
Swe Zin Htet
ဆွေဇင်ထက်
Born (1999-11-16) 16 November 1999 (age 25)
Hpa-an, Myanmar
Beauty pageant titleholder
TitleMiss Supranational Myanmar 2016
Miss Universe Myanmar 2019
Hair colorBlack
Eye colorBrown
Major
competition(s)		Miss Supranational 2016
(Top 8)
Miss Universe Hpa-An 2019
(Winner)
Miss Universe Myanmar 2019
(Winner)
Miss Universe 2019
(Unplaced)

Swe Zin Htet (Burmese: ဆွေဇင်ထက်; born 16 November 1999)[1][2] 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.[3][4][5]

  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.