Fans sing along to most pro-LGBT Eurovision, though winning song isn’t kitschy Audience love France for embracing difference, Iceland for counterculture message, Russia for putting its singer in ...

The LGBT community’s passion for the Eurovision Song Contest hardly began with Conchita Wurst’s triumph last year. The international TV and radio contest has long been embraced by gay, lesbian ...

As such, Eurovision – the ultimate celebration of camp and flamboyance, dubbed the “gay Olympics” – is a perfect opportunity for Israel to pinkwash its systematic denial of Palestinian rights.

Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest, the riotously camp transcontinental music competition, have banned a Chinese TV station from broadcasting Saturday’s final after it censored an LGBT ...

China Censored Eurovision LGBT Performances. The Song Festival Fought Back. Published May 11, 2018 at 9:54 AM EDT Updated May 11, 2018 at 12:21 PM EDT. By Sofia Lotto Persio . FOLLOW. Share.

LGBT communities have been organising Eurovision viewing parties since the 1980s – but it wasn't until a decade later when these groups would become more visible.

Eurovision, which was founded in 1956 as a Western European talent-sharing extravaganza, has gradually spread eastward to the countries of the former communist bloc, with Ukraine, Russia, and ...

Conchita's Eurovision win and the NFL's first drafting of a openly gay player pave the way for further progress in LGBT rights. By Cat Sarsfield Published: 12 May 2014 ...

When 3 Dollar Bill advertised its Eurovision event on Instagram on Thursday, May 9, the post received 250 comments insisting the club boycott the competition over its inclusion of an Israeli singer.

The Eurovision Song Contest, an extravagant annual event which has its finale in Lisbon on May 12th, is neither about music nor about Europe. Yes, it helped launch the careers of Abba and Celine Dion.

China Broadcast of Eurovision Contest Revoked After Anti-LGBT Censorship By Patrick Frater. Plus Icon. Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief. noblebrother100. Latest; ...

Ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest final in Kiev, an extravaganza embraced by the LGBT community, Ukraine's "Celebrate Diversity" motto sounds more like ...