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Ireland Fans Lead The Way In Gay Eurovision Support

By AJ Allen  06 May 11 -  According to a global homo-league table of the Eurovision Song Contest’s most fervent gay fans , Ireland tops the leader board.

A new research study called LGBT2020 from Out Now  – the global gay and lesbian marketing and research company – reveals the gay impact of Eurovision in 19 countries, spread across the world. The most passionate gay supporters hail from Ireland, where a significantly higher proportion of gays and lesbians than in any other country disclose that they watch the competition.

The survey shows: 1/ LGBT people in Japan are more than twice as likely to watch than LGBT people from five times winner France. 2/ Australia makes a surprise non-EU entry in to the Top Ten with 14% of the LGBT population Down Under rating Eurovision as ‘must see’ tv. 3/ Despite a recent run of bad luck for the UK in the contest support remains high for the competition with over 1 in 5 LGBT Brits saying that they will watch this year’s event. 4/ Top of the gay Eurovision league is the events most productive winner – Ireland, who have won an impressive seven times – with an astounding 24% of the LGBT community saying they will tune in  next weekend to support the contest.

The finals are being held in Dusseldorf, Germany on 14 May 11.