They recently appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair Italia’s special Pride issue. And tonight in Poland Måneskin gave us even more proof that they are allies of the LGBTQ community.
Performing their global hit “I Wanna Be Your Slave” at the Polsat SuperHit Festival in Sopot, Poland, bandmates Damiano David and Thomas Raggi decided to close the number with a kiss.
As the audience erupted in applause, Damiano said: “We think that everyone should be allowed to do this without any fear. We think that everyone should be completely free to be whoever the f*ck you want. Thank you Poland! Love is never wrong.”
Måneskin’s Damiano and Thomas kiss in Poland to support LGBT rights
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Bass guitarist Victoria De Angelis commented under the post, writing: “We all should be proud of who we are. We love you!”
That the group would stage a same-sex kiss in Poland isn’t mere coincidence. Poland’s LGBTQ+ community has felt increasingly under threat in recent years. As Deutsche Welle reports, “the ruling populist PiS party, as well as the Catholic clergy, have been accused of boosting homophobia in Poland.”
“Polish President Andrzej Duda has also been criticized for saying , ‘LGBT is not people, it’s an ideology’ and claimed it was ‘even more destructive than communism.'”
Even the choice of song seems relevant to notions of freedom and living life on one’s own terms. Damiano and his bandmates have previously discussed how the “I Wanna Be Your Slave” lyrics discuss the many facets of human sexuality.
Victoria told Corriere della Sera that of all the lyrics on their album, “I wanna be your slave, I wanna be your master” spoke to her the most strongly.
“I recognize myself in the dualism of opposite things,” she said. “Each of us tends to get an idea of himself and to get stuck there. Instead, one can have pleasure in thinking and being the opposite, while remaining oneself….striving for things that you can appreciate later, but which you don’t feel ready for now.”
Brilliant England in the last 8 in euros , shame Europe can’t control this result
Yeah. England will play all the matches, except one, in Wembley. It’s the only team with this privilege. So instead than being a real “itinerant” Euros, for England is a home tournament. And still I believe thay against a team like Italy or Spain UK will not win.
What a place to do it! Well done, love is indeed never wrong.
I’m already getting excited about the show they’ll put on at Eurovision 2022
Måneskin are an inspiration! We need more people like them. 🙂
Right on brothers and sisters!
Good of them. I hope someday Poland and Hungary will wake up and dismiss the primitive mindset that LGBTQ+-people aren’t human beings like anyone else.
Please don’t accuse Poland of beeing homophobic. It’s our goverment, supported by church and old people, has this stupid opinions. Believe me, most of Poles have nothing against LGBTQ. Especially young generation. Hopefully in 2 years time we get ride of this terrible goverment.
Thought Thomas was the drummer?
No, Ethan is the drummer
Thanks
i honestly can’t wait for tvp to be thrown out of the ebu so that polsat can be in charge of poland’s eurovision participations. it’s just beyond me how a public broadcaster of a democratic country functions as the ruling party’s little puppet lol
this is a huge statement from them, they’re amazing
Well, Måneskin just show to all those people who said that Eurovision winners are completely boring and dull irl that there are no exceptions to the rule… EVERY Eurovision winner has a personality and that goes to show again how massive the impact of Eurovision is to the music industry, even if it is overlooked by ‘Murrica or the UK
Well, can’t really say Duncan Lawrence exuded personality. 😛
And also Ell & Nikki 😀
Exactly
Oh… I guess there ARE some exceptions
Jamala is a great example of the winner with a personality as well
CrIMeA iS UkraINe?
Definitely yes. Crimea is Ukraine.
Quite a controversial one but still
Reporters: Politician from your party just said that LGBT aren’t people. What do you think?
One of the most prominent members of PIS: Are they though…? -_-
Not filled but it’s not like there’s no bias there. They’ve taken massive right turn a few years ago. But they still have couple of people thinking completely different way and that wouldn’t be acceptable somewhere else
I think that worth to write is about Micha? Szpak (Poland eurovision entry and 3rd televote (probably highest in last years for Poland)) performance same evening few minutes before Maneskin performance. Szpak was awesome.
Oh god! Love you Måneskin (especially Ethan). 🙂 Thank you to be so brave.
Iconic, legendary. Activists. LGBTQ allies. When will the rest of the artists?
Maneskin are just beginning their career abroad and they are not playing it safe or compromising their beliefs. Kudos to them.
It must be hard booking gigs in Russia now haha but there is a big demand for them everywhere now.
maneskin > uefa
Closing ceremony???
UEFA is so hypocritical. Changing logos to pride colours (just like all enterprises that want to look inclusive) but in essense, they don’t care about LGBTQ rights.
What is UEFA? I never heard of it.
Well, you’re American so it makes sense
European Soccer Federation, regulates the European tournament an other related things.
For all who doesn’t know how bad the situation is: few days ago MPs of governing party gave standing ovation to the Minister of Education after member of oposition told him, that his words about pride parades (that people on them are not normal and deviants) are the reason of suicides among LGBT+ children.
What a load of bull. If anything, Pride saves lives!
I’d kiss Damiano
pretty sure we all would….
I don’t mean to be shady but Duncan could’ve done something similar in Hungary instead of cancelling his performances there. It may be just a gesture and it may not have a strong impact in a country but it’s still a sign, something that may help or give a voice to the LGBTQ+ community in these countries with a homophobic government.
Both actions are forms of protest, and I don’t blame Duncan at all, he took the stance that he wanted to take, just as Måneskin did.
Kudos to them both.
Sure, both of them are good ways of protesting against such laws. Still, I think what Måneskin did is better, because by doing what they did, their fans in Poland could still see them perform, while Duncan’s fans in Hungary are getting “punished”. Still, kudos to both of them for taking a stance against these laws.
there’s no demand for dunce anyway, it’s not like he would’ve been booked to perform in hungary lol
girl where did this Duncan hate come from…..one of the best winners of the decade babe
He went from sore loser to sore winner.
Duncan is weak and superficial, Maneskin are genuine and authentic.
Don’t forget Duncan dumped his long time boyfriend as soon as he got a whiff of fame.
Aren’t Hungary’s laws more homophobic and transphobic than Poland’s? Also Hungary’s government is doing a lot of other problematic things at the moment. I can see why Duncan would want to boycott performing in Hungary.
Also whilst Maneskin are just allies (I think) Duncan is actually LGBTQ+ himself and so might feel uncomfortable visiting a country like Hungary at the moment.
Victoria is bisexual. Damiano is straight but curious (and his girlfriend just said she is bisexual). Ethan said he doesn’t like labels.
Doesn’t like labels just means “im straight but want to exploit my appeal to my thirsty gay fans”
Or it means exactly what he said. They hardly need help appealing to what feels like most of the planet.
People get the government they deserve / vote for. The government IS the people. if the people feel punished by duncan’s cancellation, then they simply try not to elect their homophobic government. It’s that simple.
First of all: Poland isn’t Hungary.
Second: unlike Damiano and Ethan, Duncan is bi, has a male partner. Duncan can’t switch his sexuality. Damiano and Ethan are straight cis males. Great that they showed support, but after that act they still are straight.
Ethan isn’t straight. He literally basically said he’s very sexually fluid.
People get the government they deserve / vote for. The government IS the people. if the people feel punished by duncan’s cancellation, then they simply try not to elect their homophobic government. It’s that simple.
Oh right, if people live under a dictatorship it’s *their* fault. Lmao. What have you been smoking?
My heroes
They are iconic. Måneskin rock the world!