Hundreds of friends, fans and admirers came out Saturday night at HCHS for the fifth annual Womanless Beauty Pageant, raising more than $12,000 for the Halifax County Cancer Association. Ten local “beauties” took the stage for a rollicking night of cross-dressing entertainment, with “Ivy Dripp” (J.T. Lawhorn) besting the field to claim the 2019 Ms. HCCA tiara. Finishing in a tie for first place behind Miss Ivy (not married, presumably) were “Dixie Tucker” (Dennis Blanks) and “Ruby” (Doc Clark Jr.), with Dixie stumbling her way to victory in the tie-breaker dance-off. Second place finisher was “LaToya Bridgefield” (Blake Jones) and third place went to “Summer Clearance” (Charles Anderson). Other contestants were “Miss Eunice C. Berger” (Devin Hall), “Kitty Kat” (Daniel Eanes), “Foxxy” (Billy Rice), “Cotton Candy” (Anthony Anderson), “Bub-Bell” (Christopher Braman), “Jenna Rator” (Jeremy Clark, Ms. HCCA 2018), and “Fancy” (Calvin Williams, Ms. HCCA 2016). Shown above, clockwise from top left: Summer Clearance (Charles Anderson) hams it up backstage with a very dapper Charlie Payne, resplendent in red; Miss Berger (Devin Hall) is pretty in pink; Latoya Bridgefield (Blake Jones) matches blue hair with a red feather boa; and football fangirl Dixie Tucker (Dennis Barker) puckers up for the cameras with backstage hair stylist and makeup artist Jessica Rose Hayes.