Without us they'd be nothing, what an incredibly foolish move on their part. Fuck Eurovision
For 20 years now it's been my LGBTQ+ friends having euro vision watch parties.
They just lost 90% viewership
Lol, no
Most people won't ever see this news, and even then, many people wouldn't care.
If there is a group of people we can trust to properly boycott shit is the Eurovision fans.
Sure, the fans... But the majority of the viewers are people like my parents, who are entertained by it for a week, don't really care all that much about anything but the national rivalry and the cool shows and music, and then it clears off their mind until the next year.
Lol yes of course. How they also lost when they didn't ban Israel? Eurovision doesn't care and the people don't care either.
But they have no problem with the flag of a country that kills dozens, hundreds of people, right? What a bunch of morons.
Tens or hundreds of thousands and still counting. But it is the gays that are the problem, apparently, not those who commit genocide.
All flags except the flag of the country they represent seems to be banned:
Participants are also barred from holding flags to express solidarity with other countries such as Ukraine, Palestine, or Israel.
Yeah, it's a shitty thing to do, but it's not the first time for the EU.
50,810 as of april 8th
That are confirmed. The real numbers are much higher as there is thousands of people who are "missing". Also if an entire family gets annihilated there is sometimes no one left to report the people as missing.
which one? Azerbaijan or Israel?
Israel. What's the deal with Azerbaijan?
You serious? Did you miss the Azerbaijani-Armenian war?
Oh, this, of course. There's so much going on in the world and in my country that it's slipped from my mind.
is ended? (bit out the loop on that stuff)
I think they still don't have a peace treaty, but at the moment no active fighting
They banned Russia for war crimes but not Israel. Nothing about what they ban is consistent or makes sense unless their goal is appealing to right wing fascism.
kinda like how they go after kneecap for criticizing a country more than they do actually arresting a war criminal
Hey, genocide is not a war crime when the victims are a group you don't like /s
Tbf the only reason they banned the Russian broadcasters was because a big number of other EBU members were threatening with boycott if Russians were allowed to compete. Which didnt happen with Israel, where only a handful of members wanted to see them banned.
And it's pretty easy to see why it is illogical - because you have 56+ broadcasters on the deciding table, between which key personnel can change regularly.
Fuck Eurovision.
Eurovision has seen the participation of many LGBTQ+ artists over the years, most recently, in 2024, nonbinary singer Nemo from Switzerland won the competition. Nemo revealed at the time of the competition that they were told not to bring the non-binary flag on stage, however, the artist was able to smuggle one in, according to PinkNews.
I was going to ask about Nemo and their NB flag. I had no idea that this was already an existing rule and that they were breaking rules to sneak it in. Good for them! Their song was legitimately the best one from last year, too (video).
They should borrow Bambie Thug's trans flag swimsuit that fae had on-stage
I watched the video but didn't see a flag?
If I recall correctly, they had their flag at their team booth after their performance, and (maybe?) brought it on stage after the votes were finally tallied and determined them to be the winner.
I do have a strong recollection of them cheerfully waving their flag during the long vote tallying process.
Which is probably why they now want to ban all non-competing country flags from all official areas including the team booth too.
cyprus should have won over israel in 2018 anyway
also lol at banning pride flags in the 69th edition of the gayest music show
iceland is gonna say fuck that
iceland is gonna say fuck that
They've done it before.
Is that Corey Feldman and Miles Teller?
It's not a flag, it's a cape so it's ok.
And a headband, and a shirt, and pants, and socks, and shoes, and glasses?
That or just ask Bambie Thug for advice.
My guess? It's all about banning the Palestinian flag.
Territorial flags have been banned for years, the new rule is specifically about non-territorial flags.
“Hello, I am from Queer, specifically the municipality of Gay. I’m here to make this stage mine. By force. Here is my rendition of ultraviolence by Alex DeLarge to the beat of “Ultraviolence” by Lana Del Ray.”
Yes. Banning free expression on the contest that's for... free expression. Well done guys, liberals owned 🇺🇸👊🔥
the fucking churches fly pride flags here, are these churches not part of the country? hey christians, eurovision banned religious imagery!
All Christians care about is voting for Israel, even when they don't watch eurovision. That's how Israel got so many votes last year while everyone was booing so hard (even through the anti boo filters they used). There were tutorials on how and when you should vote to support Israel for Israeli and Christians. And many Christians are anti LGBTQ+ so they support this ban. Even though eurovision is as gay as you can get it.
It's an absolute joke of an event anyways. I will make sure to ignore it even harder from now on.
Wow that is sad
This is about flags specifically. Presumably pride designs in non-flag format are fine.