The LGBT muny’s passn for the Eurovisn Song Contt hardly began wh Concha Wurst’s triumph last year. The ternatnal TV and rad ntt has long been embraced by gay, lbian and transgenr…
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- EUROVISN SERV QUEER JOY WH EPIC BALLROOM PERFORMANCE: ‘BELGIUM SAYS GAY RIGHTS’
- IS EUROVISN A GAY EVENT? LGBT PERFORMANC THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE NTT
- HOW EUROVISN BEME A GAY-IENDLY NTT
EUROVISN SERV QUEER JOY WH EPIC BALLROOM PERFORMANCE: ‘BELGIUM SAYS GAY RIGHTS’
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But I also knew when I was growg up, there was no gay marriage Belgium. “If you look at what happened wh Dana Internatnal 1998, I was a young, gay, boy. Openly gay, Gtaph also scrib the song as a rallyg ll for the LGBTQ+ muny.
IS EUROVISN A GAY EVENT? LGBT PERFORMANC THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE NTT
The gays of the ter uld immediately be heard screamg: “Huge slay! Belgium says gay rights! He's been out as gay sce he was 14, and there's a reason why he left the pop scene shortly after he started.
I am a gay man and I have been out sce I was only 14. I did feel sort of a prsure om the rerdg dtry to keep my sexualy as myster, like don't really tell them you're gay but don't ny eher, that was nfg for me.
– I wrote wh Jaouad Alloul wh the ia of havg a song that uld celebrate all different typ of people, that uld be played at gay pri or a gay club, but also on the rad. 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.
HOW EUROVISN BEME A GAY-IENDLY NTT
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.