Polina Gagarina (Russia) @ semi final 1 qualifiers press conference | wiwibloggs
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- During semi final 1 at the Eurovision Song Contest, Russia's Polina Gagarina sang A Million Voices - and she got a million rounds of applause. No one booed! At the qualifiers' press conference she described how she cried hearing people chant her name. She also fended off a tricky question about why she didn't sing an LGBT-related song. Polina slays the pack! You go girl!
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The LGBT question was kind of dickish. You're putting her on the spot by asking a question that could get her in trouble if she gave a definitive answer on either side: If she said yes, she supports LGBT rights, she could lose support at home and see sales of her music and concerts plummet, or worse actually get in legal trouble by the gay propaganda laws, and if she answers the other way saying that she doesn't support LGBT rights, than she'll lose a lot of support in Western Europe. She's not a politician, she hasn't made her musical career with protest and activist songs, why would anyone ask her that question? And how are LGBT rights doing in Turkey? I'm sure it's fun to be gay in an increasingly Islamic country.
markalexander774 You're right: She had to tread so carefully! I think she did a great job. Love her.
Polina is soo cute, soo nice :) , and she went throught that question very well! She is not Rusia, she is the AMAZING represent from Russia
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Pоlina said it right. In Russia there are no problems with sexual minorities. No one denies, but do not allow to advertise a similar relationship. A lot of clubs are like people and they do not pursue power. Just in our country are not taken to make this relationship on public display. So if you want a national characteristic. I'm sorry if something is not correctly written. I do not speak English.
the greatest actress from eurovision history
And the award for the most stupid question goes to...
Why didn't she sing a song about gay rights? Not only was it in poor taste, it was a idiotic question which the answer to is obvious to anyone with half a brain. Polina handled it brilliantly but she shouldn't have been put on the spot like that. Her answer could've had serious consequences both at home in Russia and in Europe. I'm glad she handled it well but it could've been a very ugly situation.
You do understand that Russia is not dangerous for gay people right? They have laws protecting their right not to be discriminated against in businesses or public places...(America doesn't have that in every state). You should see Russian tv shows, there's a lot of references to gay being fine.
funderfull Just because they have a "protection law" as you call it. Doesn't mean they are "safe". There are literally dussins and more of news reports of groups that seek out and torture gay people in Russia and I have not even once seen these groups get into trouble for it. They are communists, just like North Korea. They can make up whatever they want and tell the rest of the world, but Putin is still an idiot. There is a video here on youtube with 2 guys making a social experiment by holding hands in public in Russia. They get threatened, told to leave the country, one person even seperated them and started being aggressive and threatening to beat them. If you call this "safe" Then I better wish myself a brand new dictionary for my birthday, cause that is not what it meant the last time I checked...
abbeboy True. But the same thing would've happened to a gay couple in many western countries 30 or 40 years ago. I think someone from Russia is going to have a different definition of what 'safe' is than someone from the west. For Russians 'safe' means that they are free to be gay in private and not show their sexuality in public. For western countries it means that they are free to be themselves in public. It's a difference in mentality which stems from past history. You have to remember that such progressions in attitudes towards homosexuality in the west are actually very recent developments. . They were a long time coming and were preceded by centuries of homophobia and oppression. Russia hasn't had multiple civil rights revolutions. It hasn't gone through the period of social change that helped pave the way for equality and tolerance. The current political situation doesn't help either, Russia experienced a pro-western surge in the wake of independence, but that fascination with everything western slowly died down and now we are seeing a rejection of the west and many of its values. Which in turn means a rejection of homosexuality by Russia's ruling elite, simply on the basis that it is a 'western value'. It also adds a great distraction from other pressing issues which the elite would prefer weren't the centre of attention. There are a lot of complicated factors that contribute to the current situation. There is a difference in values and perspectives, that's why universal defintions of being "safe" aren't really helpful here. Because there is no universal definition of being 'safe' in this instance.
Interviewer should stay aside so we could see Polina!
lol, I bet it is worse in Turkey
Miss Jeyjey haha yes
Well, the question was pretty progressive for a sensitive journalist from Turkey...would be more romantic to hear such a think from lets say a saudi-arabian one
Что было написано на этой бумажке, что Полина так обрадовалась?
А вообще, она вела себя очень достойно
Молодец
#Гагаринапоехали
they were raffling off the order of the presentations, in this case it was her turn in the second part of the show. I really wanted Russia to win that year. She was the best♥️
У них везде вопросы про геев,если их любиш то тебя любят,если нет то нет) Везде свой лджбтэ всунут))
What did she pull out of this bowl?
they were raffling off the order of the presentations, in this case it was her turn in the second part of the show. I really wanted Russia to win that year.
She was the best♥️
You won't be lonely anymore... when we come with our tanks.
a million voices... of suffering ppl.
Russia wants peace. A piece of Georgia, a piece of Ukraine...
What do you mean by that?