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Eurovision, Google Doodles, Mothers, and 5 May

Eurovision is known for being political, and it was a doozy this week. Anger over Vladimir Putin's anti-gay laws manifested both positively (in the form of victory for Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst) and negatively (the booing of the guileless teenage Russian entrants). In other news, the transition from spring to summer in the Northern Hemisphere meant that TV and movies share roughly equal space. Expect movies to overtake TV sometime near the end of June.

For the full top 25 list, see WP:TOP25. See this section for an explanation for any exclusions.

For the week of 4 to 10 May, the ten most popular articles on Wikipedia, as determined from the report of the 5,000 most viewed pages, were:

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• FWIW, Tom Neuwirth has said in interviews he's a drag artist, not transsexual per se (though he is most pleased for Conchita to be taken as support for transsexuality), and Conchita Wurst is a character - David Gerard (talk) 21:29, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • I was just coming here to say the same thing. Describing Conchita Wurst as a transsexual is incorrect. She's a drag queen. Tom Neuwirth is (as far as anyone publicly knows) a cisgendered man who dresses up as a woman (but with a beard for an extra genderfuck twist) in order to entertain. Willam Belli once said, "If I'm not getting paid, I'm a boy", and the sources suggest the same is true of Tom/Conchita. Angr (talk) 08:33, 18 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And thank you Angr for introducing me to the words "cisgender" and "genderfuck" and the meaning of "cisgender" (sadly my work has blocked me from learning about "genderfuck"). --Roisterer (talk) 05:48, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. Another genderfuck twist comes from using the term "cissy" (pronounced just like "sissy") for a cisgendered person, in analogy to the sometimes-offensive "tranny" for a transgendered person. Angr (talk) 10:47, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• On the Russian Federation's so-called "Anti-Gay Laws", and the (mis)reporting thereof in mainstream media, see this paper by gay activist Brian M. Heiss: static.prisonplanet.com/p/images/february2014/white_paper.pdf . --NSH001 (talk) 23:35, 17 May 2014 (UTC) (NB: I had to render this URL out into plaintext because the spam blacklist was messing up this talk page. jp×g 10:06, 3 December 2022 (UTC))[reply]
  • If I get time I will read the rest of the paper, but the early phrase "As I began my mission to disprove the Curry - Dvorak analysis of the law" rather scuppers my hope for a document by an author with an open mind. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:05, 18 May 2014 (UTC).
    

That's a strange remark, since he takes the time to look at the evidence, and comes to the opposite conclusion from what he wanted to believe. --NSH001 (talk) 05:31, 18 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• • • Having got to the part where "Non-Traditional Sexual Relations" is apparently not understood to be almost synonymous with "LGBT" (p 22 of 72) I don't think this report is worth any more of my time. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:27, 18 May 2014 (UTC).
      

I think you are misreading the report here. He is saying nothing of the sort. Read it again, carefully, and in context. --NSH001 (talk) 05:31, 18 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• • PrisonPlanet, really NSH001? You do know that that's run by Alex Jones, the hack conspiracy theorist behind Infowars, right? I would trust anything hosted on any of his websites. Silverseren^C 19:07, 18 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I just got done reading the document and it is utter nonsense. The entirety of it boils down to, as we would say on Wikipedia, WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. The author just complains about events in other countries and in the US and says that if we don't bring those up, then we can't complain about what Russia is doing. Silverseren^C 19:13, 18 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]