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TOP 5 of the Hottest male singers of Eurovision Song Contest 2020

6Mar

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TOP 5 of the Hottest male singers of Eurovision Song Contest 2020

It is Friday sweeties, and on Friday we just want to have fun, isn’t it? Eurovision Song Contest 2020 Rotterdam is only 71 days away and while the list of participants is being completed day by day, I already have my favourite singers and songs as I’m sure you have too. But I would not be me without letting my hormones make their own decisions on some of the artists. So, my hormones and I agreed that this is The Top 5 of the Hottest Male Singers of this ESC2020 … and our dear Grandma #Titina20 agrees with us too (how couldn’t she!?). From the bottom to the top, this is my personal chart. 5th - BLAS CANTÓ - The Spanish Singer will represent his country at ESC2020. And if last year’s entry was hot as fire, this year Blas will be hot as lava…and I am ready to get burned if I got the ch...

Vladimir Putin proposes to re-write Russian Constitution with new and very anti-LGBT+ rules.

4Mar

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Vladimir Putin proposes to re-write Russian Constitution with new and very anti-LGBT+ rules.

“Marriage will be defined as the union of a man and a woman”. This and many other proposals are among those constitutional amendments that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin proposed and which are set to be put to a public vote. This is clearly a strategical move that Mr Putin wants to play to keep a hold on his power even when his presidential term would end in 2024. Amongst the proposals for the change of Russia’s Constitution we can also find a proclamation of Russians' faith in God and a very strong ban on giving away any Russian territory, and this would of course, strengthen Russia’s power on Crimea which legally belongs to Ukraine but that got annexed to Russia in 2014. These changes will continue Putin’s homophobic and anti-LGBT+ position, putting a ban on possible civil uni...

Eurovision 2020 – A Battle for Titans # Titina20

4Mar

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Eurovision 2020 – A Battle for Titans # Titina20

Less than 80 days to this Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam and challenges have already begun. Oh yeah! Since each nation published the song and the artist which will represent them on the Eurovision stage, each piece started a sort of challenge amongst the others, a challenge made of clicks, likes, views, streams and above all comments. This is the case of the two artists competing for Iceland and Lithuania, respectively: Daði & Gagnamagnið with Think About Things and The Roop with On Fire. From the moment both songs were revealed to the world, a real craze started for the bands that play them and for their choreographies - simple but effective. For example, Daði & Gagnamagnið with their Think About Things, a funky-synth-pop song, which Freyr wrote for his recently bor...

Israel has chosen the song for Eurovision 2020: Feker Libi.

4Mar

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Israel has chosen the song for Eurovision 2020: Feker Libi.

Among the 4 songs written for Eden Alene, Feker Libi triumphed over them all. Last night KAN broadcasted a music and colourful show where the four songs that had been written for Eden Alene and her participation to Eurovision 2020, competed and received jury’s votes. The winning song was Feker Libi (Raffa's favorite). Feker Libi was written and composed for Eden by Doron Medalie and Idan Raichel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWMeV3xXuDQ Eden is of Ethiopian descent and the song that won the selection is written in 4 different languages: Amharic, Arabic, English and Hebrew. Feker Libi is Amharic and means “the one I love”. After the show Eden commented: “I didn't have my favorite song. It is a song that represents our entire nation, it made me emotional but also had a lot of fun! ...

Eurovision 2020: Serbia unleashes their Hurricane

3Mar

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Eurovision 2020: Serbia unleashes their Hurricane

This new girl band will represent Serbia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020. Hasta La Vista This is the song they will be singing at the next Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam. It is a pop song with a fast pace and elating rhythms thta - together with the three Serbian “PussyCat Dolls” - makes you want to dance and let loose. With all honesty, with such a rhythmic and pressing piece I would have opted for English lyrics. https://youtu.be/E58fFu_4Vlg The Band Sanja Vucic, Ksenija Knezevic and Ivana Nikolić are Hurricane, a band formed in 2017. The girls have unique styles and personalities and perfect harmonies that bring their songs on air on radio stations around the world. Sanja Vučić is a very famous singer in Serbia, and we also remember her at ESC 2016 with h...

Lady Gaga: our Sailor Moon paladin of Pop and Love in Stupid Love

2Mar

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Lady Gaga: our Sailor Moon paladin of Pop and Love in Stupid Love

We have all waited a long time for her return to the "origins" and she has not disappointed us. The stories related to the songs and those videos that seem like episodes of TV series, of those series that we all love and look forward to when the next episode is released to learn about the evolution of the plot, the lives and destinies of the characters but above all - at least in this case - to live the new adventures of Chromatica, the new paladin of love. Stupid Love is a song that at times recalls the settings and rhythms of "Born this way", which develops thanks to an easy and direct text, that we all sang it already after the first minute of listening, and to a refrain that immediately gets into your head. A video that opens with a small story that helps us understand the meaning o...

Officer Specter – first openly lesbian character in a Disney Pixar cartoon

25Feb

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Officer Specter – first openly lesbian character in a Disney Pixar cartoon

Here we are! For the first time in Disney’s history we are introduced to Officer Specter, a one-eyed policewoman who says she has a girlfriend. Of course, it is not specified whether the policewoman is lesbian or bisexual, but she speaks about love for a person of her same sex, and this is a great achievement if we think about the fact that she will show children love in another nuance of normality. Kori Rae, producer, commented: “We wanted to open our world by a pinch and make it more representative of the society around us." The film will be released in American theaters on March 6th. Specter’s voice is given by the openly lesbian actress Lena Waithe, famous for the Netflix series "Master of None". Of course the ultra-religious right has already sent its complaints to Disney, but the...

Croatia: a group of people burns the effigy of a gay couple with a child for Carnival celebrations.

25Feb

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Croatia: a group of people burns the effigy of a gay couple with a child for Carnival celebrations.

The happening was condemned by the actual Croatian President, Zoran Milanović Carnival floats are always poorly politically correct but when people celebrate to racism and homophobia, then it is really too much. This is what happened in Croatia where at the end of a carnival parade, an effigy of a gay couple with a child was burned amid the cheering screams of the crowd around. During the weekend, the city of Imotski sported an effigy of a gay couple, wrapped in a rainbow scarf with a child in their arms, for the carnival parade that was held in the streets of the city to then set it on fire as part of the carnival celebrations. The couple's child had the face of the deputy of the left Social Democratic Party Nenad Stazić, who recently asked that same-sex couples could be allowed to ...

The Roop – From Lithuania to the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam

21Feb

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The Roop – From Lithuania to the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam

Less than 100 days left before the musical event most waited by all the LGBT+ communities of Europe and Australia and I have already fallen in love with a band. Who am I talking about? I’m talking about the trio of wonders that is "on fire" - The Roop. The Lithuanian band conquered the jury and viewers of the National Selection for Eurovision with their “On Fire”, and won the honour of representing their country at this Eurovision 2020. They had come close to participating in the contest already in 2017, but for a few points then they did not made it. This year, the guys of The Roop were asked again to participate to the selection, and luckily they answered yes: their video is among the most watched of all the songs competing in ESC2020 and we are all on fire for their choreography. A ...

Rick Cosnett from The Flash, comes out as Gay on Instagram

17Feb

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Rick Cosnett from The Flash, comes out as Gay on Instagram

“I want to live my truth every day” We all remember him mainly for 2 things: a) how hot and sexy he is; b) The Vampire Diaries But Rick Cosnett is also famous for his interpretations in The Flash (a famous Superheroes tv series); Ws Maxfield in The Vampire Diaries and Elias Harper in Quantico. So, Rick on Valentine’s day decided to surprise his fans and make himself a present: he came out as gay on his Instagram profile with a lovely video. https://www.instagram.com/tv/B8hnrZXJGhy/?utm_source=ig_embed “I am gay. And I just wanted everyone to know. Because I’ve made a promise to myself to live my truth every day. And sometimes that is a really hard thing to do when you have all these subconscious things you don’t even know about from childhood and society and just life. I am sure most ...