{"id":1588,"date":"2014-05-19T13:11:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sex.co.uk\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2014-05-19T13:12:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:12:31","slug":"conchita-wurst-eurovision-win-brings-out-the-homophobes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-uk\/conchita-wurst-eurovision-win-brings-out-the-homophobes\/","title":{"rendered":"Conchita Wurst Eurovision Win Brings Out the Homophobes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perennial fame-seeker Tom Neuwirth scored a huge victory recently, winning the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, as his alter ego, <a title=\"Conchita Wurst\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/page\/history\/year\/participant-profile\/?song=32263\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\">Conchita Wurst<\/a>, belting out a soaring performance of Rise Like a Phoenix. Though as the Mirror pointed out, the <a title=\"Slavic Girls get 12 points from the British public. But our Eurovision judges place them last\" href=\"http:\/\/ampp3d.mirror.co.uk\/2014\/05\/11\/polands-slavic-girls-get-12-points-from-the-british-public-but-our-eurovision-judges-place-them-last\/\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\">UK Eurovision favourite act<\/a>, based upon the televoting, was Poland\u2019s Slavic Girls\u2019 busty milkmaid routine, though the UK\u2019s jury of music industry professionals were unswayed by the gratuitous cleavage and hand job pantomime and universally, voted Poland\u2019s entry dead last.<\/p>\n<p>The popularity of knockers and suggestive butter-churning among the <em>hoi polloi<\/em> aside, it was the reactions from the Russian Federation that shone with an incandescence that rivaled any of the song contest\u2019s spectacular pyrotechnics. Calling the nearly 60-year old Eurovision Song Contest \u201ca Europe-wide gay parade,\u201d Russian legislator, Vitaly Milonov, the author of the original St. Petersburg \u201chomosexual propaganda\u201d law that was extended to the entire country last year, sent a letter to Russia\u2019s Eurovision Selection Committee urging them to not to send any performers to participate in the event, stating, among other things, \u201cEven just broadcasting the competition in Russia could insult millions of Russians,\u201d and \u201cThe participation of the obvious transvestite and hermaphrodite Conchita Wurst on the same stage as Russian singers on live television is blatant propaganda of homosexuality and spiritual decay.\u201d Milonov\u2019s solution is to have Russia cease participating in Eurovision and instead hold a Russia-only song contest, Russiavision if you will, that will celebrate and showcase \u201ctraditional values,\u201d whatever that means.<\/p>\n<p>After Wurst&#8217;s win, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, head of Russia&#8217;s Liberal Democratic Party, is quoted as saying: &#8220;There&#8217;s no limit to our outrage. It&#8217;s the end of Europe,\u201d which has to be the most hyperbolic reaction to a talent show in the history of talent shows. Russia&#8217;s losing contestant for Eurovision 2014, Filipp Kirkorov, was a bit more gracious, stating, \u201dIt was the song that won, and in my opinion it was a beautiful song, with a beard, without a beard, a woman, a man &#8211; it is unimportant, this is a competition, a song contest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1655\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/presse_02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/presse_02-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Eurovision Contest Winner\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/presse_02-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/presse_02-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/presse_02.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eurovision Contest Winner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While arguably Ms. Wurst\u2019s win is of little importance in the grand scheme of things, in the long run, the overreactions of the conservative elements likely helps the cause of LGBT equality more than it hurts it. Lest we become too smug about the reactions among those \u201cbackwards\u201d types, it\u2019s worth noting that the quest for LGBT equality and acceptance has taken a long time here in the UK, and the struggle is far from over; and in one final piece of delicious irony that will give you hope for the future, Wurst\u2019s rendition of <a title=\"Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst goes to number one in Russia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/entertainment\/music\/eurovision-winner-conchita-wurst-goes-to-number-one-in-russia-30270125.html\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\">Rise Like a Phoenix<\/a> is at the top seller on Russia\u2019s iTunes singles chart, decisively demonstrating that conservative pols don\u2019t necessarily speak for the masses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perennial fame-seeker Tom Neuwirth scored a huge victory recently, winning the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, as his alter ego, Conchita Wurst, belting out a soaring performance of Rise Like a Phoenix. 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