“The Gayest Pop Show”
Last night television viewers in much of the non-US world were glued to their screens for the annual Eurovision Song Contest, held in Helsinki, Finland this year. Dubbed by some “the gayest pop show on Earth, the Eurovision launched the careers of “gay” artisits including ABBA, Celine Dion and Julio Iglesias.
Israeli transsexual singer Dana International (who won the competition in 1998) summed up the gay interest by saying, “It’s like pageantry, and gay men love pageantry and being outrageous.” In fact, for some Europeans, identifying yourself as a Eurovision fan is a tacit way of coming out of the closet, and the show is often most closely identified with housewives and gay men.
We at Mideast Piece also love the Eurovision because it is a venue where a country like Serbia, the big winner last night, can make international headlines for something positive and trump the French to boot. Goooooooooooo Serbs!!
The 2006 contest was the gayest to date by all accounts. Out and flamboyant Bulgarian singer Azis (pictured below) sang backup for that year’s Bulgarian entrant, Mariana Popova, clad in what appeared to be a floor-length skirt and high heels. Openly gay Swedish singer Andreas Lundstedt (formerly of Alcazar) formed part of the Swiss entry Six4One, and Moldovan entrant Arsenium was outed as a bisexual slave after an ad on a S/M site surfaced.
To learn more about the gayest pop show ever, click here.
May 13th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
This year has to be gayer than last year right?
An Ukrainian dragqueen, a Danish dragqueen, a (out?) lesbian winner, a bisexual swedish rocker and slick, hip-swinging, bronze, too cheesy to be straight participants from Greece and Turkey.
(and I bet ya that the Spaninsh boygroup had an orgy in the Green room)
May 13th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
What a show tonight. See my blog for the winning clip.