'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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HOW A EUROVISN STAR'S SONG ABOUT G OUT BEME A GAY ANTHEM
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‘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.
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”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? Another key moment me 2014 when Concha (a gay drag queen) brought her genr non-nformg drag to the mass.