Pride Month: Throwback when drag queen Conchita Wurst won big international Eurovision Song Contest in Europe

[Look But Don't Touch]

Many Americans still don't know what Eurovision is so let me explain  First of all, it's huge in Europe. Every country in Europe; Australia, few countries from Asia choose their representative artist and their song, performance every year. They just perform their song live and everyone sees it on TV, live-stream on YT etc. (you can easily find almost every contest on YT in high quality) and people vote for the best, there's also jury that gives points but people hate em cause they suck. Two days for semi-finals and one day for finale. It is aired in a lot of countries, even these homophobic as hell. It's good as the contest is really LGBT-friendly. It's a really big event in Europe, like UEFA EURO, it unites countries for a moment. This contest has existed since 1956 and it gave us a lot of hits, amazing songs and big artists like ABBA, Celine Dion. There's also a lot of cringy moments when songs countries perform suck but it's fun  When a country wins - the next contest happens in their country. 

Spoiler

 

Throwback when drag queen Conchita Wurst won Eurovision 2014 with her powerful song ''Rise Like a Phoenix'' about acceptance etc. Imagine drag queen performing on TV in extremely homophobic countries and she wins thanks to people's votes & jury  Big moment for LGBT community. But people were mad AS HELL. It was terrible. Everyone were talking about it in Europe no matter if comments were positive or negative.  

 

There's a lot of different LGBT artists with good songs like:

- winner in 2019 (he has a fiance rn so he's taken, girls & boys  tho his future husband is even hotter). This song went viral on TikTok, right?

 

- 2nd place in 2019. 

 

Transgender NikkieTutorials was one of the hosts this year. 

Gay man as a host in 2019 with Madonna that performed that night:

& other LGBT people I don't remember 

You as Americans probably see it as a not big deal but you have to remember that in Europe there's still a lot of extremely homophobic countries that would censor trans people, gay kiss etc. if it wasn't live. 

@Midnight @Jordan Miller feature it 

[Midnight]

What a great way to celebrate pride month, love this.

[BritneyWithGlasses]

not everyone forgetting Dana International - from israel - the first trans woman to win the eurovision in 1998

[rik]

Great thread icon 

[boyinthemirror]

Eurovision is the most entertaining music event in the world right now    There’s so much diversity and you can always discover interesting artists from different countries that if it wasn’t for the show you probably wouldn’t ever know. 
 

Spoiler

Does Mahmood have a fiance? I don’t think he has. A simple google search couldn’t find him.

 

[Look But Don't Touch]

1 minute ago, boyinthemirror said:

Does Mahmood have a fiance? I don’t think he has. A simple google search couldn’t find him.

It was about Duncan

[boyinthemirror]

1 minute ago, Look But Don't Touch said:

It was about Duncan

Oh true. My reading skills suck, sorry.

But yeah Mahmood is also queer and has an album coming out in a couple of weeks!

For the sake of staying on topic, I don't know if Americans know Loreen, but they should! Euphoria was huge in Europe and it should have charted in the US. The performance is better than anything we've seen at the Grammys in years.

 

[MasterMindz]

Didn't Celine Dion win this in 1988?

 

 

[Look But Don't Touch]

Not LGBT related but winner in 2015 had such a good song as well 

 

[MasterMindz]

I also love these songs!

 

 

[Alexanda]

9 minutes ago, maki93 said:

Didn't Celine Dion win this in 1988?

 

 

Yes  

Switzerland

[Alexanda]

This was too much for me this year

[MasterMindz]

7 minutes ago, Alexanda said:

Yes  

Haha! I never watched the show but I do love the music! The songs were always played in radio stations back in Lebanon.

[Itfeelskindagood]

Not you forgetting to mention when Serbia won with Molitva sung by Marija Serifovic... it was a huge deal because she is openly gay, which is rare to see in serbian media

(it’s a beautiful song... I still get chills when I listen)

[Alexanda]

2 minutes ago, Itfeelskindagood said:

Not you forgetting to mention when Serbia won with Molitva sung by Marija Serifovic... it was a huge deal because she is openly gay, which is rare to see in serbian media

+ this drag legend: 

 

[Look But Don't Touch]

16 minutes ago, Itfeelskindagood said:

Not you forgetting to mention when Serbia won with Molitva sung by Marija Serifovic... it was a huge deal because she is openly gay, which is rare to see in serbian media

(it’s a beautiful song... I still get chills when I listen)

That's why all of u are here to educate me & other people about other LGBT moments in Eurovision, honey  

I only mentioned people I know cause it was like me being mature/old enough tu understand it I guess so I remember them.  

[Alexanda]

46 minutes ago, Look But Don't Touch said:

That's why u are here to educate me & other people about other LGBT moments in Eurovision, honey  

I only mentioned people I know cause it was like me being mature/old enough tu understand it I guess so I remember them.  

Ireland: gaycouple on stage. 

It was broadcasted in China as well, but not anymore after this performance, bye China!

[CarTurn]

I love Eurovision, and I’m in Texas! I’ve discovered one of my favs, Sergey Lazarev in 2016. Also Loren was amazing with Euphoria. Another one of my favs is Amir from France. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 

 

[cocodeluxe]

Sill mad that this queen didn‘t win

 

[Look But Don't Touch]

There's tons good songs from Eurovison that I can't even remember rn