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Contents:

• IS EUROVISN A GAY EVENT? LGBT PERFORMANC THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE NTT
• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
• THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
• HOW EUROVISN BEME A GAY-IENDLY NTT
• OUR 10 GAY SURPRIS FOR EUROVISN SONG CONTT ESC STOCKHOLM 2016 | SWEN
• 'YOU'RE NOT SAFE MOSW', GAY EUROVISN FANS TOLD AHEAD OF MARCH

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

For s legn of gay fans, Eurovisn has long been more than a song ntt.

In the 1997 Israeli film Ba’al Ba’al Lev (Gotta Have Heart), a gay teenager obssed wh the Eurovisn Song Contt (ESC) exprsed py for his LGBTQ brethren the Uned Stat. As Eurovisn veterans perform at gay pri ftivals om Madrid to Stockholm this summer, we reunt five memorable LGBTQ moments at Eurovisn. The ntt, held Birmgham, England, would feature a public televote for the very first time, and supporters began to see her potential succs as a statement on gay power.

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

Her victory transformed her to a natnal in to gay and straight fans alike. Krista, a straight ally wh a male fiancé, emed the move a public prott over Fland’s failure to extend equal rights — cludg same-sex marriage — to gay people. Haters scribed the character — portrayed by gay male sger Tom Nwirth — as “foolish” and “disgtg”, and some members of Atria LGBTQ muny said she was stg them all as eaks.

In 2011 LGBTQ rights group Zagreb Pri nomated him for “Homophobe of the De, ” owg to ntroversial statements he had reportedly ma 2005, tellg Tena magaze that gay men and lbians “nnot be equal wh other cizens bee means a return to Sodom and Gomorrah. But Houk ma the bold cisn to pete at Eurovisn 2017 Kiev anyway, and a year where anizers had chosen the theme “Celebrate Diversy” — wh s obv nod to gay rights. He lnched a digal mpaign celebratg iendship and gave terviews to media outlets wh large gay followgs.

Many read the poetic endg as a statement of renciliatn, and an apology aimed at Croatia’s gay muny.

THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR

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. It me ls than a year after Vladimir Put passed a law banng children Rsia om learng about homosexualy and the untry's entry was loudly booed by the arena crowd, while others waved the Pri flag for the mera. It's believed by many terpreters that the song was about a homosexual relatnship, wh ambiguo lyril them about partners facg judgement om those around them amid referenc to hell and irons.

A 2019 article by Belgian broadster RTBF took a closer examatn of the text, even clarg a prott song favour of the gay movement, although is never explicly stated that the song is about two source, Getty Imag / KeystoneImage ptn, Jean-Cl Pasl, a French artist reprentg Luxembourg, won the 1961 Contt wh the song No l AmourexThere was a ltle ls subtlety 1986 when host natn Norway field Ketil Stokkan, performg Romeo, wh members of a drag troupe.

HOW EUROVISN BEME A GAY-IENDLY NTT

By the time Pl Osr of Iceland turned up 1997 as Eurovisn's first openly gay entrant, fans like myself were startg to fd each other the early ter foms. "I would read webs, take part foms, and gradually dawned on me that, actually, probably, most of the people I was teractg wh on there were gay - back then that was the ma LGBTQ+ inty that people had, " she explas. In the north-wt of England, I beme volved regular days (and nights) out where a majory-gay crowd of Eurovisn enthiasts would chat, drk and - ocsnally - see romance blossom.

"Eurovisn isn't an LGBTQ+ event but 's affectnately referred to as 'Gay Christmas', " explas the dited ntt fan.

Eurovisn should not be dubbed as a gay event and ’s not related to Pri events around the world whatsoever.

OUR 10 GAY SURPRIS FOR EUROVISN SONG CONTT ESC STOCKHOLM 2016 | SWEN

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. You might have missed if you blked but this actually marked the first gay male kiss the history of the Contt.

'YOU'RE NOT SAFE MOSW', GAY EUROVISN FANS TOLD AHEAD OF MARCH

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.

”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? Malaysia’s ernment has cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s ernment Saturday cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance.