Mr Gay UK

Several winners of Mr Gay UK marching at EuroPride 2006, London

Mr Gay UK is a British annual beauty contest for gay men, with regional heats held in gay nightclubs with a grand final usually at a gay venue. The contest is owned and promoted by gay entrepreneur Terry George.

It began in 1982 as "Mr Hardware" (named after a fragrance) designed to promote a gay mail order company. The event, held in the Heaven nightclub, was filmed by the BBC as part of a documentary entitled Something For the Ladies. In 1984 the name was changed to Mr Gay UK.

List of winners

• 1988 Matt Goss
• 1990 Matt Goss
• 1993 Anthony Morley (later convicted of murder)
• 1994 Ben Stelmazsek
• 1995 Lance Trimble
• 1996 Roy Fairhurst
• 1997 Sean McVeigh
• 1998 Ben Harris (later winner of the Playing It Straight TV show (2005)
• 1999 Mark Ledsham
• 2000 Harry French
• 2001 Carl Austin
• 2002 Rob Conn
• 2003 Jarrod Batchelor
• 2004 Mark Roberts
• 2005 Richard Carr
• 2006 Mark Carter (accused of rape, but cleared of all charges)
• 2007 Daniel Broughton (later a model with porn film company EnglishLads
• 2008 Dino Gamecho
• 2009–10: contest not held
• 2011 Samuel Kneen
• 2012 Leroy Williamson

External sites

http://www.mrgayuk.co.uk/