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Contents:
- GAY TIMES AND SKITTLES® TO HOST EUROVISN PARTY AT EVERYMAN BROADGATE
- LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
- JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
- IS EUROVISN A GAY EVENT? LGBT PERFORMANC THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE NTT
- ‘HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT EUROVISN IS VERY POPULAR WH GAY PEOPLE?’
GAY TIMES AND SKITTLES® TO HOST EUROVISN PARTY AT EVERYMAN BROADGATE
'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 * gay times eurovision *
At GAY TIMES, we unrstand how tegral viewers are at champng beloved platforms and clive spac. To celebrate the Eurovisn Song Contt’s credible history, GAY TIMES is teamg up wh SKITTLES® to host a fabulo, large-sle extravaganza for this year’s show.
As the world’s largt LGBTQ+ media anisatn, GAY TIMES has ntually mted to prervg queer cultur and history, while strivg to create new spac for the LGBTQ+ muny to flourish. Tickets for GAY TIMES and SKITTLES®’s Eurovisn party are now sold out, but make sure to tune to our social channels for verage om the night. ) The director and founr of the New York Cy-based Yellow Stud – an “artistilly-md” firm that specialis productn sign and creative/art directn for TV and live events – embarked on one of his most amb (and unniably gayt/mpt) projects to date this year wh his team: the 67th Eurovisn Song Contt.
LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
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Jul tells GAY TIMES that he and Yellow Stud, which nsists of signers, producers and renrers, nclud that a “universal msage of love” was apt. While the track was unable to match Ryr’s unprecented nner-up posn, placg send to last, the performance gave the gays everythg they uld want om a pop diva: playful choreo, a squad of dancers and vibrant, nceptual CGI.
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JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
GAY TIMES is teamg up wh SKITTLES® to host a fabulo, large-sle screeng event for the Eurovisn Song Contt 2022. * gay times eurovision *
Homovisn Liverpool's Chavasse park scrib self as "20 years of queer art" wh 60 queer artists takg over the event's producer Josiah told 's a celebratn of "beg proud, beg queer and seeg other queer people beg so openly queer on an ternatnal stage, 's really embolng", a performer and fan, scribed the ftival and Eurovisn as "a celebratn of our art, our culture, our muny. "In Liverpool and Eurovisn there's a big queer muny that love the petn and we have a massive gay scene.
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IS EUROVISN A GAY EVENT? LGBT PERFORMANC THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE NTT
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. * gay times eurovision *
GAY TIMES is teamg up wh SKITTLES® to host a fabulo, large-sle screeng event for the Eurovisn Song Contt 2022. Tickets for GAY TIMES and SKITTLES®’s Eurovisn party are ee return for a £10 donatn to Swchboard.
Last year, GAY TIMES llaborated wh SKITTLES®, as well as Swchboard and QUEER BRITAIN, for the ‘Relour the Rabow’ mpaign to acknowledge and celebrate those who have e before the fight for LGBTQ+ liberatn. More recently, SKITTLES® partnered wh GAY TIMES on our 2021 Honours Ceremony, which celebrated the dividuals and anisatns who have had a profound effect on the liv of LGBTQ+ people throughout the past year. ”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.
‘HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT EUROVISN IS VERY POPULAR WH GAY PEOPLE?’
Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer. * gay times eurovision *
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.
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“Three out of 10 women unr the age of 25 nsir themselv to be gay or transgenr.
Everyone will be eher gay or trans or nonnformg or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different optns there are. ” The edian Bill Maher said on his show that by 2054, if we follow what he se as the current trajectory, “we will all be gay, ” addg that the rise the number of younger people intifyg as transgenr seemed spic.
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After beg oted om the U.S. ary for beg gay, she beme an early fighter for gay rights and a proment figure the nascent L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement. * gay times eurovision *
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