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Contents:
- HOW EUROVISN BEME A GAY IENDLY NTT
- EUROVISN IS “TOO GAY”? HUNGARY’S MTVA REJECTS REPORTS WHDREW OVER LGBT PERFORMERS
HOW EUROVISN BEME A GAY IENDLY 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 * eurovision too lgbt *
LGBTQ+ fans have affectnately likened Eurovisn to other major events, wh scriptns such as “Gay Christmas”, “the Gay World Cup” and “the Gay Olympics”. Many have related LGBTQ+ (particularly gay male) admiratn for Eurovisn s “mp” nature and reliance on excs.
EUROVISN IS “TOO GAY”? HUNGARY’S MTVA REJECTS REPORTS WHDREW OVER LGBT PERFORMERS
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In San Sontag’s semal piece Not on Camp, she scrib mp as more than jt the effemacy of gay men – is a sensibily that reprents the “love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeratn”. Camp n reprent the sense of subcultural muny through the “gayg” of straight culture. The Eurovisn mtee have planned a number of events, such as Queerovisn, an onle event showsg the bt of Liverpool’s Queer ge, as well as a number of gay club events and after parti.
Hungary's ernment spokman Zoltan Kovacs says Hungary's alleged whdrawal over gay issu is "fake news" ed to create a "sensatnal" story le. * eurovision too lgbt *
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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.
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The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * eurovision too lgbt *
‘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.
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