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BY ABBY MONTEILApril 30, 2024

More than 60 LGBTQ+ organizations are calling for broadcasters, competitors, workers, and viewers to boycott 2024’s Eurovision Song Contest following the competition’s decision to include Israel in this year’s event, which takes place in Sweden.

Support for the boycott has come from LGBTQ+ organizations around the world, including QPEN in the United States, Queers in Palestine in Palestine, Pride in Protest in Australia, and Dyke March Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

“Israeli soldiers wave rainbow flags atop the ruins of Palestinian homes destroyed by the Israeli military in Gaza — a cynical attempt to rebrand Israel’s genocide as an act of queer liberation,” the boycott’s organizers said in a press release statement.

The statement likely refers in part to a viral November 2023 post from the state of Israel's official X account, which showed an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier standing amidst rubble it what was reportedly northern Gaza holding a Pride flag that had “In the name of love” written on it in English, Hebrew, and Arabic. The post said that the soldier is “a member of the LGBTQ+ community” who “wanted to send a message of hope to the people of Gaza living under Hamas brutality.” The post was criticized by LGBTQ+ advocates for being a prime example of “pinkwashing.”

The statement continued: “Allowing Israel to participate in Eurovision — an international pop cultural event with a massive LGBTQ+ audience — further contributes to Israel’s desperate pinkwashing attempts.”

The groups’ press release noted that although Eurovision excluded Russia the day after the country invaded Ukraine, similar measures have not been applied to Israel following the January International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that it is “plausible” that Israel is committing acts of genocide in Gaza. While the ICJ stated that it would proceed on South Africa’s case charging Israel with violation of the 1948 Convention of the Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the court did not order Israel to stop its military operations. Since Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 and took 250 hostages, Israeli military actions have killed over 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza and injured more than 75,000 Palestinians.

This isn’t the first time that artists and LGBTQ+ organizations have protested the international music competition’s inclusion of Israel. Back in 2019, over 100 LGBTQ+ groups endorsed a Palestinian call for a boycott of that year’s competition, which took place in Israel, following what Amnesty International described as “deliberate attempts” to kill and maim Palestinian civilians participating in protests in Gaza.

This past January, more than 1,000 Swedish musicians, including LGBTQ+ icon Robyn, called for Eurovision to exclude Israel from the 2024 competition in an open letter to the European Broadcasting Union, who said in a statement to Billboard that the Israeli public broadcaster KAN has met all the competition rules for this year and is eligible to compete.

Later, in March, over 1,900 queer artists and organizations called on the UK’s Eurovision contestant, queer actor and musician Olly Alexander, to boycott the competition out of solidarity with Palestine.

Eurovision 2024 is set to begin on May 7.

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Eurovision Fact #491:

Olly Alexander will represent the United Kingdom at Eurovision in 2024.

Olly Alexander is an actor, singer, and fashion icon. He has two #1 UK albums, ten UK top 40 singles, and he was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2022 for Leading Actor in a Television Series.

The singer also has a likeness of himself up on display at Madame Tussauds.

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"It's Olly Alexander for the United Kingdom at Eurovision 2024," Eurovision.tv.

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Listen, I love Olly Alexander. He’s a queer icon, but this is bland as fuck

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whether it be melodies that give you inspiration for your muse or songs that get you into the writing mood — pick 10 songs you find to give you the urge, the drive, or the creativity to write for your muse!

Valentino - Olly Alexander

♫ Quicker than a flash, he had me at hello He took me by the hand, we started dancing slow I didn't wanna get attached but now, I'm far too close And he knows just what he's doing♫

2. For Your Entertaiment - Adam Lambert

♫ Oh, I bet you thought that I was soft and sweet You thought an angel swept you off your feet Well, I'm about to turn up the heat I'm here for your entertainment ♫

3. Savages - MARINA

♫ Underneath it all, we're just savages Hidden behind shirts, ties and marriages How could we expect anything at all? We're just animals still learning how to crawl♫ ♫ I'm not afraid of God, I am afraid of man♫

4. High Enough - K.Flay

♫I used to like liquor to get me inspired But you look so beautiful, my new supplier I used to like smoking to stop all the thinking But I found a different buzz♫

5. HOT TO GO - Chappell Roan

♫ I could be the one or your new addiction It's all in my head, but I want non-fiction I don't want the world, but I'll take this city Who can blame a girl? Call me hot, not pretty♫

6. Gimme More - Britney Spears

♫Cameras are flashin' while we're dirty dancin' They keep watching (they keep watching), keep watching Feels like the crowd is saying - Gimme, gimme (more)♫

7. Gossip - Maneskin, Tom Morello

♫ Keep drinking and acting cool Don't care if your day is blue Nobody loves a gloomy face, just Take your pills and dance all night♫

8. Diet Mountain Dew - Lana Del Rey

♫Maybe I like this roller coaster Maybe it keeps me high Maybe the speed it brings me closer I could sparkle up your eye♫

9. Familiar Taste of Poison - Halestorm

♫The promises (the promises) were spoiled before they left your lips ♫Underneath to my skin, holding on to The sweet escape is always laced with a familiar taste of poison. ♫ I could fight this 'til the end But maybe I don't wanna win♫

10. Venom - Icon for Hire

♫Don't meet their eyes it's hypnotic Make you forget that it's toxic Caught up in all the chaotic Sold you a lie and you bought it Before you know it you're nauseous Hands down your throat 'til you vomit Collapse from all the exhaustion And now they got what they wanted♫

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best acting in got imo were

sophie turner

alfie allen

jacob anderson

iain glenn**

gwendoline christie*

then there’s like “best supporting roles” which i include “mains for multiple seasons but not like A MAIN and not for more than half the show” and “A MAIN for a single season” and imo the best were

harry lloyd

sean bean

mark addy

diana rigg

charles dance

grey worm is not in this category, he’s in the main character category because i think they expanded him so much in the last few seasons he winds up being a stand in for like, every single meereenese, unsullied, astapori, or dothraki character she ever grows close to lmao, and so like jacob anderson was essentially frankensteining a character together & getting you very invested with an incredible, studied performance and he’s in almost EVERY SEASON so!!!

then there’s the “you would have been great at your CANON CHARACTER” performances

alexander siddig

stephan dillane

Ian McElhinney

richard madden

oona chaplin

ciaran hinds

michelle fucking fairley

when i tell you i’ll always be bitter about catelyn. i swear to fuck.

NOW. i know i sound like a contrarian because i’m not listing the people who actually won awards for this show BUT i’m talking consistently great. lena headey was phoning it in and i dont blame her when they put her in that fuck ass wig and gave her the same 3 monologues over and over but while she was doing that, sophie turner was 13-22 putting out an emmy award winning performance every year. i feel the same way about peter. i think lena, peter, and siddig were THEE most talented actors on this show, but when peter & lena phoned it in, they really did phone it in and siddig was basically a cameo, like the equivalent of having detective joseph gordon levitt be named robin and not tim.

*i actually thought of all the actors at the ending, GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE should have been getting more hype but the thing is show brienne is nothing like book brienne and gwendoline is just Too Old To Be Brienne. i think aging robb, dany, jon, & margaery all up to 18-19 in the first season negatively affected their story lines but brienne going from 18 to 32 is a HUUUUGE fucking jump. the character she played was interesting, layered in ways the writers probably didn’t see but gwen certainly did, but she wasn’t really book brienne.

**ian glenn was not playing jorah mormont in the show, ian glenn was playing the romantic archetype that george is criticizing completely straight, but that’s what is in the fucking script, because d&d don’t get jorah at all. he’s doing an amazing job acting a role that fundamentally does not exist in this series ajsjdj show jorah is an oc just like that olly kid that stole ed’s iconic moment.

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Olly Alexander wearing a Ka Wa Key A/W 2022 Nordic Gradient Mohair jumper in an appearance at BBC Three’s Project Icon (April 16, 2023).

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Androgynous Clothing

Androgynous clothing is described as individuality. A fusion in which anything and everything goes and there are no rules. It's as much about personality as well as fashion choice.

This is a path of complete uniqueness. A fusion in which everything and everything is allowed and no restrictions apply. Your choices reveal as much about you as they do about your gender identification. It's the polar opposite of genderless in many aspects, being both at the same time. AMAB (assigned male at birth) people consider wearing traditionally feminine clothing or mixing it up by sprouting a beard and wearing a frock or even top to toe feminine textiles. It's about items generally perceived as male for AFAB (assigned female), or you may spice it up with a workman's jacket and cosmetics or all masc textiles. On any one day, you can be both traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine. What you wear does not have to be fashionable or emphasise a binary gender. It doesn't matter how you feel as long as you're happy. It's pointless to propose anything particular here because practically every article of clothing is included, however we'd advise you to choose items that complement your age and body type. Looking beautiful is wonderful, and honestly, if you feel good, go for it, but mistakes might attract much more negative attention.

Style icons: Billy Porter, Jamie Windust, Harry Styles, Jonathan Van Ness, Olly Alexander, Alok V Menon, Sam Smith

Referencing:

therainbowstores. (2023). Non-Binary Outfits, Gender Neutral Clothing and Androgynous Style Ideas. [Online]. therainbowstores. Last Updated: 10 February 2023. Available at: https://www.therainbowstores.com/blogs/blogs-guides/non-binary-outfits-gender-neutral-clothing-and-a [Accessed 22 September 2023].

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You have to allow everybody- Everyone's gonna have a different experience with their identity and they'd want to express it differently and we all seem more and more- especially artists express themselves in beautiful and unique ways, not needing the label, defining themselves how they wanna be and I think that's an amazing thing and I wanna encourage to see that happen. But it happens at different times, it doesn't all get sorted at once. (...) And I think it can change as well. We don't always have a set, fixed thing and we should allow ourselves to figure that out.

Olly Alexander talking to Annie Mac about being open and forthright about his sexuality

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