Posted on 12/27/2019 5:53:14 PM PST by marshmallow
Hungary has pulled out of the Eurovision Song Contest amid speculation that the annual competition is too queer for the country’s pro-family government. Hungary has not given an official reason for the withdrawal. However, a source at Hungary’s broadcaster, MTVA, reportedly said staff believed the move was about Eurovision’s association with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transvestite (LGBT) decadence and degeneracy.
“I was not surprised. It comes from the institutionalised culture of MTVA,” the anonymous source told a British newspaper in a report published Wednesday. The source said no explanation had been provided internally, but that positive coverage of queers issues was discouraged in the newsroom. The Budapest situated broadcaster declined to reply to questions raised.
Also, the Hungarian website index.hu quoted MTVA sources as speculating that the government thinks Eurovision is too gay to participate in.
When an opposition lawmaker last week asked a government minister why Hungary was withdrawing from Eurovision, he was told that the nation’s broadcaster was responsible for the decision.
Pro-government commentators have cheered the withdrawal as a win for opponents of the LGBT movement. Magazine editor András Bencsik said Eurovision has “been reduced to a homosexual flotilla. He said staying out of the contest was good for Hungary’s mental health.
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wow, Hungary is a place I think I would like to experience..
EXTRA based, wow.
So Im guessing that RuPaul’s Drag Race is out of the question?
Conchita Wurst... nuff said.
Good. Stuff like those would die out if we’d just stop patronizing it.
Yes, sounds a great travel destination!
I applaud Hungary yet again.
Do they dose you up on anything?? Cause you’re mentally imbalanced!! lol
I thought I was gonna see an example of why this MTVA show was so gay and I get the scene from Blazing Saddles :)
I DID burst out laughing but that doesn’t negate the fact that you are seriously deranged!! :)
Wouldn’t have ya any other way :)
It is very gay.
We like uHungary here don’t we? This is just a little too much. Who cares if someone doesn’t know what oriface is the important one?
There have been at least two transvestites who have won the Eurovision contests.
The first was Sharon Cohen of Israel in 1998 in Birmingham with the song “Diva”. Sharon Cohen was known by the stage name, DANA INTERNATIONAL.
The Second was of course the Austrian transgender, Conchita Wurst, who was born Thomas Neuwirth, an Austrian singer, recording artist, and drag queen who is known for his stage persona Conchita Wurst. Conchita was selected to represent Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, where his performance received the most points and resulted in winning the contest.
I’ve next understood or investigated the Eurovision song contest (which goes back to the 1960s).
My only frame of reference is some bits on The Benny Hill Show.
How is it different from American Idol or The Voice or America’s Got Talent etc?
Each contestant represents their country.
When Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, his band played "The World Turned Upside Down". I think it would be appropriate to revive that old song now.
Eurovision values spectacle over talent.
It’s a farce of itself compared to years past when ABBA was in it.
Might be time to go back to my grandpa’s home village in the east there heh.
I kind of got that aspect (whether or not there was an elimination round within each country I don’t know).
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