Swiss singer Nemo, who won the Eurovision contest in Sweden at the weekend with their song "The Code," was greeted by more than 100 cheering fans at Zurich Airport on Sunday night.
Many of the 24-year-old's fans were waving the non-binary pride flag, which has yellow, white, purple and black horizontal stripes. Nemo is non-binary and prefers they/them pronouns in English.
Nemo's victory in Malmö was only the third time Switzerland has won the Eurovision Song Contest. The last time was in 1988 when Céline Dion represented the country.
The triumph on one of Europe's biggest stages fuelled debate over whether a third gender should be able to be registered in Switzerland.
"I am clearly in favour of a third gender entry," Nemo told the SRF radio station, saying the change needed to happen as quickly as possible.
Justice Minister Beat Jans has already invited them to a meeting. "Let's get together soon and talk about queer rights," Jans wrote to Nemo.
Member of Parliament Barbara Steinemann from the right-wing Swiss People's Party said she is against another gender entry on official documents.
Steinemann argued that every Swiss citizen is already entitled to the same basic rights and there was no need to change the legal system "for individual persons."
"You can overdo it with the protection of minorities," she told SRF.
Unlike in Switzerland, it has been possible in neighbouring Germany to choose "diverse" as an option for gender on birth certificates and other legal records since 2018.
In pre-competition interviews, Nemo said the song "The Code" was about the journey to discovering they identify as neither a man nor a woman.
Nemo waved both the non-binary pride flag and the Swiss national flag on the Eurovision stage.
The first thing on Nemo's agenda was to rest. "I'm going to go into the garden of my parents' house, lie down and try to calm down a bit," they said to SRF.