Miss Camp America

Programs & Clippings

Miss Camp America began in 1969 and its first large scale pageant was
in 1974. In 1977 it achieved non-profit status by the late 1980s was
donating most of the funds raised to AIDS charities. Over
its 36-year history it dispersed over one million dollars.

While there were other fundraising events during a year, its annual
Miss Camp America Pageant was crowning glory, modeled after
and held on the same date as the Miss America Pageant.

The organization closed at the end of 2005, with one reason being the
Miss America pageant moving its date to January, making the huge
amount of planning and rehearsals difficult to occur during
the Christmas holidays.

Programs


1978 PDF               1979 PDF                1980 PDF               1981 PDF               1982 PDF

Above, courtesy of the Botts Collection of LGBT History, Inc.  (Larry Criscione)
The 1978 program was 5 1/2"x 8 1/2," others were 8 1/2" x 11"

[ Most of the programs below courtesy of Scott Clark, Brian Giguere,
DJ Jecker, Rex Marzke and Steve Roberts ]

Below, the first three below were 5 1/2"x8 1/2"
Starting with 1988 and after, they were 8 1/2" x 11"

If anyone can provide scans of programs prior to 1983 & 1984 Please contact me.
 

1987 PDF  

 

 

 

1988 PDF

1989 PDF

1990 PDF

 

1991 PDF

1992 PDF

1993 PDF

1994 PDF

1995 PDF

 

 

No pageant was
held in 2004.
MCA closed at
the end of 2005.

From 1978

Special Photo Section

courtesy of the Botts Collection of LGBT History, Inc. (Larry Criscione)
I scanned these large in a PDF so they can be viewed in zoom mode.

These three albums I believed belonged to Larry A Harrison (shown below)
He was the winner for 1977. By trade, he was a pharmacist.

Album 1977

Album 1978

Album 1979

Production Script for 1978

Larry A Harrison, probably 1977
This is the first page of the script, and I think the section just called "MCA's" gives
the names of those who got the title that year

And, another comment, at least in their programs, and least in the late 1970s,
you won't find the cast names, just their drag names. That changed Very gradually over the years,
and it took a while. You'll see, as you browse through the programs, above.

Below, From 1989

Clippings

1976

1978

  

And, thanks to a gift from Ben and Bill Jones-Walters (4/23) I can provide the real Cookbook
VIEW MCA COOKBOOK

1979

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

  

Video
New Addition, April 2021
Digitation from VHS by Bradley David Janacek

Sept 14,1991
VIEW
(3 hours)
MC Bill Walters
Miss Camp America 1991, Laverne
Laverne number, at 1:10
Pamala Stanley, at 2:33
Laverne, final walk, 2:39

   

1992

MCA 1992 Photo Album
[belonged to Gary Evans]
Download

 

1993


1994

   

On to 1995