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IS EUROVISN A GAY EVENT? LGBT PERFORMANC THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE NTT

'It's like a big, gay, not-sportg event... wh song and dance,' that's how one LGBT+ fan scribed Eurovisn - but why this cult followg? | ITV Natnal News * italian eurovision gay *

”Italy has long been fluenced by the Roman Catholic Church, which for generatns nsired homosexualy as a taboo topic to be eher ignored or shunned. In a 2005 text approved by Benedict XVI, who was pope at the time, homosexualy was scribed as “not a s” but sentially “an trsic moral evil. In the 1950s and 1960s, many gay people Italy were not open about their sexualy, Cazzullo said.

He poted out that two of Italy’s southern regns had voted to elect gay men as regnal prints. Patriarch Kirill of Mosw, the powerful head of the Rsian Orthodox Church, recently jtified Rsia’s vasn of Ukrae by claimg that was part of a stggle agast ials imposed by liberal foreigners that clud gay pri Grilli, a proment Italian L.

Rights activist, said a song like “Brividi” would once have been “unimagable” at a ftival that normally has Italians glued to their televisn the past, homosexualy uld also hurt a mil reer Italy, he said, cg the se of Umberto Bdi, a talented, gay sger-songwrer who ed a sndal Sanremo 1961 by wearg a pkie rg (then a prumed sign of homosexualy). Shortly after his electn 2013, Francis said, “If someone is gay and he search for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

The Eurovisn Song Contt is for everyone, whether "gay, straight or between". LGBT visibily the ntt clus both LGBT them the petg acts and performers themselv. * italian eurovision gay *

Subwoolfer performs Tuday on behalf of Bertorello / AFP - Getty ImagHostg the extravaganza will also be two beloved out gay stars: sger Mika, who’ll be live om Tur as an onse host for the global dience, and Olympian turned NBC mentator Johnny Weir, who’ll emcee the exclive Amerin feed of the broadst on Peack. Mar Bertorello / AFP - Getty ImagSystur’s folk ballad Eurovisn entry, “Með hækkandi sól” (“Wh the Risg Sun”), is an o to the promise of the sun’s warmth and light overg the ld darkns of lyrics of Atralian nttant Sheldon Riley’s song, “Not the Same, ” also celebrate light shg through a broken darkns — and have ronated so strongly wh some LGBTQ fans that the song is beg hailed as a gay anthem.

“So the ia of beg gay and beg all of those thgs that Eurovisn is so proud of beg wasn’t acceptable for me, was jt this thg that was nstantly prayed over. ‘We pray that Sheldon will be a real man; we pray that Sheldon won’t be gay, will be straight, will have a wife, will have kids.

Another key moment me 2014 when Concha (a gay drag queen) brought her genr non-nformg drag to the mass. Cred: APHer 'Rise Like a Phoenix' performance was scribed the prs as "the most genrqueer yet" ntt kicked off the wake of Rsia troducg s "gay propaganda" or "anti-gay" law.

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