Local Model is a Finalist in PETA’s ‘Sexiest Vegan’ Contest
Transgender Advocate and Animal Hospital Staffer Battles It Out in an Attempt to Take Top Honors—and a Tropical Vacation
For Immediate Release:
April 24, 2019
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Brooke Rossi 202-483-7382
PETA is preparing to crown this year’s Sexiest Vegan Next Door—and local Chancellor Rose Partington has beaten out hundreds of other entrants from across the nation to advance to the final round of 20 contestants. Visitors to PETA.org can now help PETA select the two winners, who will each receive a free vacation for two to Hawaii, courtesy of Humane Travel.
Partington went vegan over six years ago, inspired by a lifelong love of animals and his family’s history: His grandfather was one of two family members to survive the Holocaust. “What was done to the Jewish people from whom I descend is the same horrific treatment endured by non-human animals today,” he says. “My grandfather’s tremendous courage gave me life. I see it as my moral duty and honor to dedicate it in service to those less fortunate.” Today, Partington works in client services at an animal hospital, where he’s proud to help animals and their guardians during times of crisis. He’s also a working runway model—the first transgender model to sign with the Salt Lake City–based agency that represents him. He frequently speaks about animal rights and LGBTQ+ issues at conferences, in college classrooms, on community television, and elsewhere.
“Chancellor Rose Partington has dedicated his life to advocating for justice for all living, feeling beings,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “All the finalists in PETA’s Sexiest Vegan Next Door contest prove that there’s nothing sexier than making the world a kinder place.”
Voting to help PETA determine which finalists it should select as the winners ends at 12 noon EDT on May 13. The winners—who will be selected based on several factors, including vote count—will be announced on May 20. This is the first year that the contest is gender neutral—a development that inspired Partington to enter. See the full contest details here.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.
