By Neil Woulfe,

Breaking Celebrity News Senior News Director

Jenelle Hutcherson is not your typical beauty contestant pageant – and that’s exactly why she decided to enter the Miss Long Beach and Miss Southern California cities pageant this weekend.

In a world where pageant contestants are often blonde, busty, and rail thin, Hutcherson rocks a brown Mohawk, a pierced nose and small black ear plug-ins – and she happens to be a lesbian.

In fact, when she takes to the runway Sunday, the 25-year-old hair stylist will make history as the first openly gay contestant in the competition’s storied 61-year history.

Hutcherson got the idea to enter the competition during a conversation with Justin Rudd, the director of the pageant, while she was cutting his hair at the salon where she works.

Breaking Celebrity News chatted with both Hutcherson and Rudd to talk about why he urged her to compete and how her involvement marks a watershed moment in the pageant world.

Breaking Celebrity News: Jenelle, you’re 25 and this will be your very first pageant, how did it come about?

Jenelle: Well, it started with Justin Rudd and an epic conversation last year around the end of October. I a