In its early days, the most disagreeable thing that could be said about the Eurovision Song Contest was that in most of the participating countries homosexuality was at best frowned on and at worst actually punishable under law.
The contestants, all got up in their tight satin and sequins, had only to worry that the viewers at home might cop that their national representatives were bowling from the pavilion end. Not Dana obviously. Chortle. And I hasten to add not Johnny Logan either, 72 yesterday and married to the same woman for 50 years. But there were many others – assorted Belgians and the like – who were forcibly in the closet during those early years.
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