"Conchita Wurst" (Tom Neuwirth) has been the subject of topics here before. She is part of the transgender community, and the Conchita Wurst stage persona is much like Reginald Dwight's "Elton John," or Paul Reuben's "Pee-wee Herman."
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,118854.0.htmlHere is the German Wikipedia stub, machine translated, with some editorial corrections by me:
Thomas "Tom" Neuwirth, alias "Conchita Wurst" (born 6 November 1988 in Gmunden, Upper Austria) is an Austrian singer and transvestite.
Tom Neuwirth was born in the Styrian town of Bad Mitterndorf. In 2006, Neuwirth participated in the third season of the casting part of the show, Starmania. In this he was in the final, and placed second behind the winner Nadine Beiler. A year later, in 2007, he founded together with Falco De Jong Luneau, Johannes "Johnny" K. Palmer, and Martin Zerza, the boy band "Now Otherwise!" ("Jetzt Anders"), which disbanded in the same year.
In 2011, he attracted attention with his participation as a fictional character "Conchita Wurst" in the ORFtalent show "Great Opportunity" ("Die große Chance"). As "Conchita Wurst" he also participated in the Austrian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 (Austria is rocking the song contest) and finished second.(Please note that the pronouns are as in the article.)
