Eurovision Song Contest - disgrace or honor?

Recently I read a statement on Facebook that said Austria’s ESC participant, who is transsexual and openly shows this to the world, is a disgrace to the Austrian state and its population. I then read the comments on this statement and was more than upset and shocked when people did not only agree to this but even called Conchita Wurst (the participant) disgusting and revolting. Well, I see that some people may find it unnatural and don’t like seeing transsexual people on the street because they find it repulsive in some kind of way. Still, I can’t understand why people need to call them names and insult them on a public website like Facebook. They really don’t need to share my opinion, which I would say is quite liberal, but they don’t need to denounce them either.

When we - some people and me who think those people must not show their intolerance so very obviously - started to show our point of view and told them, what we think is wrong about their opinion, they immediately started insulting us. What really left me speechless was when they generalized our “liberal” point of view by claiming that we probably wouldn’t say anything against people watching child porn. And at that point I joined the conversation – I mean, how the hell can they compare child pornography to transsexuality?!! Do they really consider different sexual orientations just as cruel, violent, terrifying, illegal, traumatic etc. as child pornography?

When the discussion went on they ran out of good arguments, as they kept repeating the sentence: “They will not learn”.

All this took place yesterday before the grand finale of the ESC.

The same night Conchita Wurst won the contest and so did Austria.

The next morning Dave (who is very tolerant and open-minded) wrote a provocative remark by saying that the world had shown those intolerant people that it doesn’t share their opinion on sexual orientation. After that, they answered that the evaluation of the song contest couldn’t be taken seriously anyways because some Austrian people in the show said something negative about Russia’s participant (Don’t ask me where the connection is!), though Russia saved us Austrians and Germans from the NS-regime. Honestly, did they? Didn’t they only want to avoid Hitler conquering more and more European countries and didn’t they want to hit back, because Hitler had also tried to occupy Russia?

Even if it was Russia, who defeated the Nazis, do we still have to support everything they do? Do we, almost 70 years and 7 generations later, still have to be thankful and can’t criticize them in any kind of way? And what does all this have to do with Conchita Wurst, the transsexual, awesome singer who won the Song Contest FOR Austria? Nothing at all! I can only say we live in the 21^st century, so stay tolerant and go with time!

P.S. I would be very pleased if people commented on this 
(by the way, here's the link (unfortunately the 'conversation' was held in German):  https://www.facebook.com/pamela.schroll/posts/10202656289705616?comment_id=10202661226909043&offset=0&total_comments=86&notif_t=feed_comment_reply )