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Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst won Europe’s annual Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night — causing Russia to see red. Russian MPs have proposed a new festival called ''The Voice of Eurasia'' that would make it easier for Russia to promote traditional family values, and wouldn't allow Russian citizenship to be exposed to gay propaganda.
Tom Neuwirth told Reuters that his beard was "a statement to say that you can achieve anything, no matter who you are or how you look," adding that his whole Conchita Wurst persona is a statement on tolerance.
“I can only say, ‘Thank you for your attention!’ If this is only about me and my person, I can live with it,” the 25-year-old said in a reference to his critics. “You know, I have a thick skin. It’s just strange that a little facial hair causes that much excitement.’’ In a dig at Moscow, he claimed, “Eighty percent of the autograph requests that I get are from Russia and Eastern Europe — that’s what’s important to me.”
In Russia, which passed a law against “gay propaganda” last year, and in other Eastern European countries, including Armenia and Belarus, petitions had been circulated calling on the organizers to boot Wurst from the contest — or at least edit him out of the broadcast.
Wurst’s victory in the singing event was nothing but “blatant propaganda of homosexuality and spiritual decay,” Russian legislator Vitaly Milonov fumed. "The participation of the clear transvestite and hermaphrodite Conchita Wurst on the same stage as Russian performers on live television is obvious propaganda for homosexuality and moral decay," Milonov wrote.
Ultranationalist MP Vladimir Zhirinovsky called this year’s result “the end of Europe,” saying: “There is no limit to our outrage. It has turned wild. There are no more men or women in Europe, just it...Fifty years ago the Soviet army occupied Austria,” he added. “We made a mistake in freeing Austria. We should have stayed.”
Putin’s vice premier, Dmitry Rogozin, tweeted that the contest “showed supporters of European integration their European future—a bearded girl.” To which the only right-minded response right now, is “Hell, yeah, Dmitry.”
A State Duma member from the Communist Party, Valery Rashkin, said that Russia ''can't no longer participate in this contest. We can not tolerate endless insanity''. He will support the idea of making a new festival ''The Voice of Eurasia'', which will be primarily dedicated to the nation from the area of the former Soviet Union.
Of course, not all Russians felt that way. Russia allotted her five points in the official tally, and the nation’s own Eurovision team voiced support for Wurst. “Do not judge the victors,” singer Filipp Kirkorov pleaded. “It was the song that won, and in my opinion it was a beautiful song… With a beard, without a beard, a woman, a man — it is unimportant, this is a competition, a song contest. This time, Europe voted this way.”
Tom Neuwirth told Reuters that his beard was "a statement to say that you can achieve anything, no matter who you are or how you look," adding that his whole Conchita Wurst persona is a statement on tolerance.
“I can only say, ‘Thank you for your attention!’ If this is only about me and my person, I can live with it,” the 25-year-old said in a reference to his critics. “You know, I have a thick skin. It’s just strange that a little facial hair causes that much excitement.’’ In a dig at Moscow, he claimed, “Eighty percent of the autograph requests that I get are from Russia and Eastern Europe — that’s what’s important to me.”
In Russia, which passed a law against “gay propaganda” last year, and in other Eastern European countries, including Armenia and Belarus, petitions had been circulated calling on the organizers to boot Wurst from the contest — or at least edit him out of the broadcast.
Wurst’s victory in the singing event was nothing but “blatant propaganda of homosexuality and spiritual decay,” Russian legislator Vitaly Milonov fumed. "The participation of the clear transvestite and hermaphrodite Conchita Wurst on the same stage as Russian performers on live television is obvious propaganda for homosexuality and moral decay," Milonov wrote.
Ultranationalist MP Vladimir Zhirinovsky called this year’s result “the end of Europe,” saying: “There is no limit to our outrage. It has turned wild. There are no more men or women in Europe, just it...Fifty years ago the Soviet army occupied Austria,” he added. “We made a mistake in freeing Austria. We should have stayed.”
Putin’s vice premier, Dmitry Rogozin, tweeted that the contest “showed supporters of European integration their European future—a bearded girl.” To which the only right-minded response right now, is “Hell, yeah, Dmitry.”
A State Duma member from the Communist Party, Valery Rashkin, said that Russia ''can't no longer participate in this contest. We can not tolerate endless insanity''. He will support the idea of making a new festival ''The Voice of Eurasia'', which will be primarily dedicated to the nation from the area of the former Soviet Union.
Of course, not all Russians felt that way. Russia allotted her five points in the official tally, and the nation’s own Eurovision team voiced support for Wurst. “Do not judge the victors,” singer Filipp Kirkorov pleaded. “It was the song that won, and in my opinion it was a beautiful song… With a beard, without a beard, a woman, a man — it is unimportant, this is a competition, a song contest. This time, Europe voted this way.”
