‎Eurovisn: The most inic hs by GAY TIMES on Apple Mic

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

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.

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

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JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

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Cred: APHer 'Rise Like a Phoenix' performance was scribed the prs as "the most genrqueer yet" ntt kicked off the wake of Rsia troducg s "gay propaganda" or "anti-gay" law.

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

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"In Liverpool and Eurovisn there's a big queer muny that love the petn and we have a massive gay scene. 'You want to know people have got your back'Wh LGBT+ fans om far and wi arrivg the cy, anisers have ma safe spac to nnect wh others and get away om the htle and btle of the ma Clark opened Pri Hoe Liverpool at the start of the month, a muny pop up that's open for the length of the Herrg, Chief Executive of Liverpool Cy Regn's Pri Foundatn, scribed the celebratns as "gay Christmas" and, as we all know, Christmas n be a strsful time. GAY TIMES is teamg up wh SKITTLES® to host a fabulo, large-sle screeng event for the Eurovisn Song Contt 2022.

‘HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT EUROVISN IS VERY POPULAR WH GAY PEOPLE?’

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. 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?

Every year, Gallup releas a survey of how many Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.

“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.