How Eurovision became an LGBTQ+ safe space

Forgive me for not pointing out earlier this wasn’t exactly a pub full of football fans. No, this was 9 May 2014, in one of Copenhagen’s gay pubs. The following night, the Danish capital would host the Eurovision final – and we didn’t have a clue that, nine years later, the city bonding a group of complete strangers would also stage the extravaganza.