The Eurovision Song Contest

A must for any self-respecting tranny!

The Eurovision Song Contest? It's Eurovision not Transvision - have you gone mad? Well no. Not at all. I've always been fascinated by the Eurovision since I was little. I loved the suspense of the voting (although these days it's the political power-plays that are the most intriguing thing about the voting but that's not the sort of thing you spot at age 7). The music, well if I'm honest, I've enjoyed a lot of that too. And more recently the whole thing has taken on a kind of glorious campness that just screams 'tranny'! The costumes, the silliness, the Germans! But aren't the 'trannies' who appear in the Eurovision just ridiculing us and perpetrating a tired and stereotypical myth of what we are all about? Don't they bear almost no resemblance whatsoever to 'every-day' t*girls? Well maybe. But for me, by taking a chance, and taking the stage, they are at least offering a beacon hope and acceptability to those transgendered people in those countries where they have to remain beneath society because of law or culture. OK, so the performances may be a little bit melodramatic but for my money, they are still worth applauding! And of course, the Eurovision has, on more than one occasion, boasted its fair share of transvestites and transexuals, one of whom even won it and a fair few who've come a close second! It's also been said, on various occasions, that some of the non-transvestite entries were so camp that even 'regular women' ended up looking as if they were trannies, either because of their outfits or more often the way over-the-top make-up that is more reminiscent of drag queens than pop princesses. So this is my tribute to Europe's number 1 pop song competition, the camp, the costumes and of course, those tranny musicians whose daring deeds, high heels and lipstick shine like a beacon of hope to many people all over Europe - for whom these pop superstars may represent the only visible sign that the fact that they too feel in some way transgendered might not be as wrong as it seems... Ladies - I doff my handbag at you. There's a few more bits on about transvestites in the Eurovision Song Contest over on the Trans-MISSION web-site too!

Top Eurovision Tunes

Artist	Title	Country	Year	Notes
Yohanna	Is it true?		2009	Came second but a lilting melody which deserved better.
Maria Haukaas Storeng	Hold On, Be Strong		2008	Catchy 60's style song and a great dress too.
Verka Serdyuchka	Dancing Lasha Tumbai		2007	Infamous drag queen from Ukraine with really odd song and even weirder costume.
Beth	Dime		2003	Spanish entry in the contest. What a great tune. Should have won.
Jemini	Cry Baby		2003	The zero point scoring UK entry. Crap performance but a funky tune.
Sestre	Samo Ljubezen		2002	Controversial Slovenian Eurovision tranny act (see picture in main text above).
Antique	Die for you		2001	Now this Greek entry really should have won. It was a major European chart hit afterwards despite only coming third.
Dana International	Diva		1998	Tranny Eurovision winner from Israel, you mean you didn't know...!
Imaani	Where are you now		1998	This is a lovely, gentle song that hould have done better than it did. Re-released in 2004 by Meltem Cumbul, the Turkish host of the competition that year!
Bucks Fizz	Making your mind up		1981	Wouldn't it be fun to have skirts that ripped off like that?!
ABBA	Waterloo		1974	Wouldn't escape if I wanted to. Still revered to this day.

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