Jamie McLoughlin explores how the song contest has been a support to the community for decades.
Jamie McLoughlin explains how Eurovision has had a supportive hand on the shoulder of the LGBTQ+ community for decadesIt wasn't the biggest bar in the world and it was heaving, but somehow my partner and I found a seat by the farthest wall, sharing a table with a small group of Icelandic fans. When they found out we were from Merseyside, the eyes of one of them lit up.
It was around that moment the entire bar broke into a mass sing-a-long of The Herreys' Diggi Loo Diggi Ley, Sweden's 1984 Eurovision victor. Belted out with such booming fervour, the myriad of tiny glitterballs covering every inch of ceiling space threatened to rain down on the giddy clientele.Forgive me for not pointing out earlier this wasn't exactly a pub full of football fans. No, this was 9 May 2014, in one of Copenhagen's gay pubs.
Conchita remains one of Eurovision's defining LGBTQ+ moments, but she wasn't the first - that came 53 years earlier.
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