'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
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- 'WE USED GAY-IENDLY EUROVISN TO HI THE TTH, THAT WE’RE A RACIST AND CONSERVATIVE COUNTRY'
- IS EUROVISN A GAY EVENT? LGBT PERFORMANC THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE NTT
- HOW EUROVISN BEME A GAY-IENDLY NTT
- GAY VAMPIR
- FANS ARE HYPED FOR NETFLIX’S NEW GAY VAMPIRE ANIME
- 8 REASONS WHY EUROVISN IS GAY HEAVEN
'WE USED GAY-IENDLY EUROVISN TO HI THE TTH, THAT WE’RE A RACIST AND CONSERVATIVE COUNTRY'
AMC’s new show fally lets Ltat and Louis be gay, do crim. * gay vampire eurovision *
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. Not unlike the way I uld’ve sworn that “Berensta Bears” was spelled wh a third “e, ” I totally believed that prev rnatns of Interview wh the Vampire — both Anne Rice’s origal 1976 novel and the 1994 movie adaptatn — were explicly about gay vampir.
IS EUROVISN A GAY EVENT? LGBT PERFORMANC THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE NTT
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. * gay vampire eurovision *
But more than that, they seemed to embody the ethos “be gay, do crime, ” a not-always-so-leral exhortatn to live a queer life fiance. But the homoeroticism was all subtext.
AMC’s Interview wh the Vampire, an updated, grisly, and often mordantly hilar retellg of the origal story pulls gay subtext to the ma text, givg a fancy vampire lookg for a longtime pann. And tellg their story, Interview creat an embolned mentary about how sexualy, race, inty, power, and opprsn are all tertwed, and how the forc have throughout Amerin history left the magnificently queer vampir (and many others) wh no choice but to be extremely gay and do so, so many crim.
In Interview wh the Vampire, gay vampir get lonely, too. Logilly, gay vampir make a ton of sense. Vampir don’t partake racism, sexism, and homophobia bee all of humany is beneath them, let alone humany’s awful hangups.
HOW EUROVISN BEME A GAY-IENDLY NTT
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… * gay vampire eurovision *
But vampir probably, as Ltat also monstrat, aren’t gog to let racism or homophobia gui their sire. It’s hard for some of them to prehend the ia of two men together — not unlike the way history turns gay and lbian lovers to “roommat” or “bt iends.
Come to thk of , Interview is a lot like Frasier, a show that’s also about two sufferable gay men whose fancy tast annoy and threaten the people around them. If they found out he was gay, his life would be danger.
When Ltat shows up, all fancy and charmg and gay, his offer of vampiric immortaly is much more than an eternal life of queer pannship.
GAY VAMPIR
A list of 13 films piled on Letterboxd, cludg Sons of Satan (1973), Love B (1988), Gayracula (1983), Sb (2005) and Eulogy for a Vampire (2009). About this list: Everybody knows about Lbian Vampir™ but you need to know about the gay vampir too. * gay vampire eurovision *
Be gay, do crim! Part of me hope Louis, who is a 100-year-old queer vampire, got to hear Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” on a dance floor full of flagrant homosexuals. Daniel isn’t gay.
It turns out that beg a gay vampire and dog crime isn’t ial, but allows Louis to be closer to who he tly is — much more than the human world would ever allow him to be. Dpe anti-gay activists prottg on the streets of Slovenia's pal, Ljubljana, the tr won fans around the world wh their performance of 'Samo Ljubezen (Only Love)', their participatn, wh protts even reachg parliament and the European Stokkan, Norway (1986)In 1986, Norway's Ketil Stokkan performed his song 'Romeo' alongsi a member of the Great Garlic Girls, a well-known drag group. Pl Osr, Iceland (1997)Consired by many Eurovisn die-hards as beg ahead of his time, Iceland's beme the first openly gay sger to perform at Eurovisn 1997.
Dpe not makg through to the fals, DQ's entry song 'Drama Queen' was loved by members of the LGBTIQ+ muny and soon beme a go-to dis track at gay clubs.
FANS ARE HYPED FOR NETFLIX’S NEW GAY VAMPIRE ANIME
* gay vampire eurovision *
Wurst has sce bee a vol advote for LGBTIQ+ rights, appearg at Pri ftivals around the world (cludg Sydney's Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras) and even addrsg the Uned Natns. The Eurovisn Song Contt is for everyone, whether "gay, straight or between". Gay.
8 REASONS WHY EUROVISN IS GAY HEAVEN
The song's lyrics ntaed the le "Straight or Gay or between". Dunn Jam 'proud to be gay' as he reveals new boyiend Rodrigo Reis (en).