First Miss Gay Kansas Crowned

Deja Brooks named Miss Gay Kansas 2020

Amber Fraley
3 min readMar 11, 2020

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Deja Brooks has been named Miss Gay Kansas and Londenn Davenport Raine is first runner up

This year’s Miss Gay Kansas United State pageant was held onSaturday, March 7, at Maceli’s Banquet Hall & Catering in Lawrence, and Deja Brooks, whose real name is Brandon Eisman, has been crowned the inaugural Miss Gay Kansas. Brooks is a high-profile drag queen who has almost single-handedly brought drag into the Lawrence mainstream. She…

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Amber Fraley

1Writing about abortion rights, mental illness, trauma, narcissistic abuse & survival, politics. Journalist, novelist, wife, mom, Kansan, repro rights activist.