'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
Contents:
- HOW EUROVISN BEME A GAY-IENDLY NTT
- MAE MULLER ON ‘I WROTE A SONG’ ORIGS, RA SAWAYAMA, AND BEG A ‘GAY IN’
- IS EUROVISN A GAY EVENT? LGBT PERFORMANC THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE NTT
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… * eurovision gay icon *
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. Loreen speaks exclively wh GAY TIMES about her Eurovisn experience – past and prent – and how the LGBTQ+ muny weled her after g out as bisexual.
MAE MULLER ON ‘I WROTE A SONG’ ORIGS, RA SAWAYAMA, AND BEG A ‘GAY IN’
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Eleven years ago, Loreen stormed the Eurovisn stage wh her ld sg-along smasher and gay favoure Euphoria.
While Loreen don’t necsarily believe “wng”, she tells GAY TIMES that if Tattoo reigns supreme, would “mean that [the world is] headg the right directn” as a rult of s universal them of ‘strength and love’. Ahead of the Eurovisn Song Contt – which airs s fal on 13 May – we ught up wh Loreen to discs the track (the favoure to w this year, jt FYI), how the LGBTQ+ muny “accepted” her after she me out as bisexual and her pick for Eurovisn’s gayt ever song. Eurovisn is also our home bee ’s such a gay, mp event.
IS EUROVISN A GAY EVENT? LGBT PERFORMANC THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE NTT
Loreen, tell me this: what do you thk is the gayt song Eurovisn history? The gayt song?