You’d have needed a heart of stone to resist whooping with joy when Austria’s Eurovision entry, a bearded drag queen called Conchita Wurst, snatched the tiara on Saturday night. Wurst’s version of “Rise Like A Phoenix” is what would happen if a talented Mariah Carey drag act landed a Bond theme… in other words, ethereal, theatrical perfection. But one thing it wasn’t, as some people are supposing, was a victory for “transgender acceptance”.
