Comments on: Moscow braces for European musical song contest

By: Alexander L.

Alexander L. — Sun, 17 May 2009 00:39:05 +0000

The Eurovision Song Contest always has been politically charged. Scandinavian countries always gave each other the highest the most points, whether the song was good or not. Germany always gives Turkey a lot of points and the other way around, simply because there has been a big Turkish majority in Germany. In 1979 there was a big debate if the pop group Dschinghis Khan really should participate at the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, since there song Dschinghis Khan was about the Mongol Ghengis Khan. The first and only German winner was a 17 year old girl named Nicole, who won with the song, Ein bisschen Frieden, a little bit of peace. In 1999 then Germany sent the Turkish pop group Sürpriz to Jerusalem with a song in Turkish, German, English and in the end even Hebrew, Reise nach Jerusalem, which championed peace.

The Eurovision Song Contest always had a large gay following. It wasn’t too much of a surprise then, when in 1998 the male to female transgendered Israeli singern Dana International won. After she won, the orthodox Jews in Jerusalem started prostesting against the Eurovision Song Contest, because it wasn’t Jewish, was well as the fear of all those gays coming to the holy city.

The Eurovision Song Contest always has been very politically charged.

By: J Mathews

J Mathews — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:47:33 +0000

peaceful gay rights demo has been brutally broken up by russia’s state riot police. Clearly Russia is slowly moving backwards. I’d suggest a boycott of the Eurovision contest, as Russia clearly has NO RESPECT for human rights.

The russian authorities allowed a fascist anti-gay parade to take place without any interruption in Moscow earlier.

By: Stephan

Stephan — Sat, 16 May 2009 06:30:21 +0000

The Netherlands had threatened to pull out during the semi finals, if the gay rallies were going to be stopped by police (usually with major force), consequently, they didnt get any votes from Russia and other east block countries (one of the performers is gay) and they were out of the competition.