Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Lisbon chosen to host EuroPride in 2025
mambaonline.comThe magical city of Lisbon will host EuroPride in 2025 (Photo: Deensel / Wikimedia) In the wake of the firestorm surrounding this year’s EurorPride in Belgrade, the Portuguese capital Lisbon has been chosen as the host city of EuroPride in 2025. EuroPride is a pan-European LGBTIQ event featuring a Pride parade, hosted by a different European city each year.
The bid to host the 2025 event was presented by Portuguese partner organisations ILGA Portugal, Variações and rede ex aequo at the annual general meeting of the European Pride Organisers Association (EPOA) in Torino, Italy.
Lisbon competed against a bid for the German city of Magdeburg, and won with 79% of the votes cast by EPOA member Prides. “This is a historic moment for us and for EuroPride,” commented a spokesperson for the Lisbon team. “2025 marks the first time that Portugal receives an LGBTI+ large-scale event and our organisations are extremely proud to have been entrusted with this task.” The spokesperson continued: “In an ever-growing hostile environment, not only towards LGBTI+ rights but to human rights in general, we have decided to highlight the need to visibly and boldly occupy public spaces and to call out our paper towns.” The Lisbon team pledged to “impose social and political changes on a national and European level, but also beyond Europe – particularly in the Lusophone space and beyond any neo-colonial perspectives.” The recent Eurpride 2022 parade in Belgrade was mired in controversy after the Serbian authorities attempted to ban it in response to anti-LGBTQ+ resistance from Orthodox Church and nationalist groups.
The event eventually went ahead but had to be protected by police from violent protestors who rioted in the streets. The President of
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