I Will grow a beard to stand in solidarity against these bigots.

It's best if you use your best feature, your wit! (among other things, so I'm told.)

Even the men in my family aren't good at growing facial hair. My nephew tried for No-Shave November. We were all happy when he shaved his whispy mustache, though we did enjoy laughing at it.

Conchita Wurst is
1) a fine singer
2) bearded
3) transvestite

The responses to these should be
1) great!
2) so?
3) so what?

Unfortunately it has not been.

and the public phone vote (which counts 50:50; after several years of just public phone votes, in which they felt people voted too much for their neighbours, they brought back the 'jury' of music professionals from each country to give half of a country's vote).

This shows that the Russian jury placed Wurst 11th, but the public put her 3rd.
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/results?event=1893&voter=RU

So the huffing and puffing by the Russian politicians wasn't reflected among the population.

(Also showing notable differences between the jury and phone votes in several countries - the Polish entry, performed with extremely unsubtle buxom milkmaid dancers and double entendres in the lyrics - eg British jury: last; British public - first).

Jen Hyatt of London expressed relief as a parent on Twitter. “I am so glad that my kids live in an era where it is #conchita and not Hitler that represents Austria in Europe.”

In Moscow, gay activists undeterred by 2013’s ugly federal law to prohibit the distribution of “gay propaganda” have filed an application to the mayor’s office notifying officials of their intent to host a “Conchita Wurst march of bearded people to open the gay parade season.” The march will take place on May 27, the 21st anniversary of abolishing criminal prosecution for homosexual relations in Russia.

Sandy Rios of the conservative American Family Association described Wurst on the Right Wing Watch radio show as a conqueror who is “under a delusion and will not prevail.”

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, head of Russia’s Liberal Democratic Party, was perhaps the most incensed. “It’s the end of Europe. It has turned wild,” he said. “Fifty years ago, the Soviet army occupied Austria. We made a mistake in freeing Austria. We should have stayed there.” Russia’s deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, expressed his disgust on Twitter by declaring that Eurovision “showed supporters of European integration their European future: a bearded girl.”

http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/05/13/eurovision

Good luck to Russians planning a Conchita march on May 27. It will be interesting to see if the Moscow mayor's office allows the march and how peacefully it comes off. Just keep Russia's deputy prime minister and Mr. Zhirinovsky as far from that march as possible.