The Gayt Christmas Ever: Insi 2020's Big, Queer Holiday Explosn

Contents:

• GAY CHRISTMAS (EUROVISN SONG CONTT)
• EUROVISN: IT'S NOT 'GAY CHRISTMAS' FOR LGBT+ UKRAIANS
• IS EUROVISN A GAY EVENT? LGBT PERFORMANC THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE NTT
• HOW EUROVISN BEME A GAY-IENDLY NTT
• THE ‘GAY WORLD CUP’: WHY LGBTQ+ DIENC LOVE THE EUROVISN SONG CONTT
• THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN

GAY CHRISTMAS (EUROVISN SONG CONTT)

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.

EUROVISN: IT'S NOT 'GAY CHRISTMAS' FOR LGBT+ UKRAIANS

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.

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

“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. More of a post to create awarens of the amazgns that is the Eurovisn Song Contt, known many untri as gay Christmas.

The show seems signed to ter to the flamboyant gays, wh the massive stage show, elaborate gowns and pop mic galore. After everythg said durg the Olympics, they better be booed at Europe’s biggt gay event. Three years ago, jt as Concha Wurst was about to claim the Eurovisn Song Contt crown Vienna, The Guardian nicknamed 'gay Christmas'.

HOW EUROVISN BEME A GAY-IENDLY NTT

As Ukraians know only too well, the Rsian borr is long and dangero and Chechnya, where gay men are beg imprisoned and tortured right now, is not far away. There will certaly be 'high mp', and might well be 'gay Christmas', but only si the you're havg a Eurovisn party at home this weekend, or if your lol pub's havg a Brotherhood of Man or Bucks Fizz revival, please rattle a bucket for Kiev Pri. RelateurovisnEurovisn Song ConttUkraeKievGay pri.

Is Eurovisn a gay event? Eurovisn should not be dubbed as a gay event and ’s not related to Pri events around the world whatsoever. Sung by the first openly homosexual woman to participate the Contt (most importantly!

Dpe the song not beg exclively about gay marriage, Krista wanted to enurage her untry to legalise gay marriage at the time and spe heavy cricism, maly om the Turkish broadster, Krista and one of her backg sgers gave the first lbian kiss on a Eurovisn stage. At least, gay marriage Fland has been legal sce 2017! You might have missed if you blked but this actually marked the first gay male kiss the history of the Contt.

THE ‘GAY WORLD CUP’: WHY LGBTQ+ DIENC LOVE THE EUROVISN SONG CONTT

In se you don’t remember, the vio featured a gay uple dog an terpretive dance around Dubl’s Temple Bar. Dpe Ryan himself not beg gay, he clared that he strongly believ and equaly and along wh his team, they cid to re-create the mic vio on stage.

The ternatnal TV and rad ntt has long been embraced by gay, lbian and transgenr people tuned to s msage of uny. Slowly, but surely, the LGBT (lbian, gay, bi and transgenr) muny found a welg home Europe’s annual mil extravaganza.

“We want to produce great TV shows that appeal to the greatt number of people: No matter where they are om, no matter if they are men or women, young or old, Europe or out, whe or black, homosexual or straight, ” Bakker poted out that Eurovisn remas a global event, watched by more than 180 ln viewers worldwi, om Portugal to Azerbaijan, and even Atralia, which was ved to participate this year’s edn. Pl Barn, a gay Brish man his fifti, has been a fan for s.

THE GAYT CHRISTMAS EVER: INSI 2020’S BIG, QUEER HOLIDAY EXPLOSN

“Last year Concha Wurst was the perfect diva for gay people.

Profsor Brian Sgleton, who holds the Samuel Beckett Chair of Drama and Theatre at Try College Dubl, and who wrote an article on the soclogy of Eurovisn for the Society of Queer Studi Journal 2007, said gay men growg up the 60s and 70s gravated toward the event while watchg at home wh their a time when social nventn told men to show extreme emotnal rtrat, Eurovisn was a wele breath of h air, acrdg to Sgleton. The glamour, the spectacle, ’s all those thgs that gay men vt to get away om the norms of masculy, ” noted on the worldIn the 60s and 70s Eurovisn was also a rare wdow on the world for Europeans still largely isolated om one another.

Sgleton, who remas a big Eurovisn fan to this day, argu that the opportuny to see people on TV who were different helped gay men accept themselv as beg outsi the norm, and even to celebrate that difference – a procs many gay men go through. “The people who take part Eurovisn don’t see each other as gay or straight. It’s jt one big meltg pot of var different backgrounds, and beg gay or straight is jt part of the mix.