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=== Queerphobia in Vienna === |
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[[Homophobia|Queerphobia]] in Vienna was quite prominent years ago due to laws related to the criminalisation of homosexuality.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A History of LGBT Criminalisation {{!}} Human Dignity Trust |url=https://www.humandignitytrust.org./lgbt-the-law/a-history-of-criminalisation/ |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=www.humandignitytrust.org. |language=en}}</ref> Nowadays, Vienna can be considered as a relatively safe city for Queer people in Europe. In 1998 the city of Vienna established the viennese Anti-discrimination Unit for Gay, Lesbian and transgender issues. The purpose was to bring up LGBTQIA+ topics into all the different levels of administration but also to mainstream LGBTIQ in the viennese scene. However, it did not prevent a series of Homophobic and queerphobic attacks (between 2015 and 2020). The Austrian [[The Greens – The Green Alternative|Green]] MEP [[Ulrike Lunacek]] was a victim of an [[acid attack]] during a Pride parade in Vienna. And in 2015 a lesbian couple was thrown out of Pruckel Cafe for kissing in public, Which led to a protest in which over 1000 people attended.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Protests after Vienna cafe ejects lesbian couple for kissing |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/protests-after-vienna-cafe-ejects-lesbian-couple-for-kissing-1.2070058 |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref> |
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=== City politics === |
=== City politics === |
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Revision as of 15:57, 7 August 2022
Geography
Demographics
Politics
Queerphobia in Vienna
Queerphobia in Vienna was quite prominent years ago due to laws related to the criminalisation of homosexuality.[1] Nowadays, Vienna can be considered as a relatively safe city for Queer people in Europe. In 1998 the city of Vienna established the viennese Anti-discrimination Unit for Gay, Lesbian and transgender issues. The purpose was to bring up LGBTQIA+ topics into all the different levels of administration but also to mainstream LGBTIQ in the viennese scene. However, it did not prevent a series of Homophobic and queerphobic attacks (between 2015 and 2020). The Austrian Green MEP Ulrike Lunacek was a victim of an acid attack during a Pride parade in Vienna. And in 2015 a lesbian couple was thrown out of Pruckel Cafe for kissing in public, Which led to a protest in which over 1000 people attended.[2]
City politics
Vienna has traditionally been more progressive than the rest of Austria.[3] Some first anti-discrimination laws were passed in 1996 and 1997,[4] and activism already had garnered the support of then-mayor Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner as early as 1982, when homosexuality was still criminalized widely in the country.[5]
In December 2014, Vienna joined the Rainbow Cities Network by declaring itself a Human Rights City. Most efforts by the city against queerphobia are led by the Viennese Antidiscrimination Unit for lesbian, gay, transgender and intersex issues (WASt), which was founded in 1998. These efforts are organised on a five-year action plan basis.[6]
In 2015, the city of Vienna introduced traffic lights with same-sex couples before hosting the Eurovision Song Contest that year, which attracted media attention internationally.[7][8]
In 2016, the city of Vienna started handing out honorary awards to LGBT activists: Helmut Graupner received the Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien award in 2016.[9]
The city has a memorial for gay concentration camp survivors,[10] most notably Josef Kohout, situated in Heinz-Heger-Park.[11] There is also a monument to the victims of persecution of homosexuals in the Nazi era in Ressel Park.[10]
Vienna became a fast-track city in the fight against HIV/AIDS in June 2017.[12]
- ^ "A History of LGBT Criminalisation | Human Dignity Trust". www.humandignitytrust.org. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
- ^ "Protests after Vienna cafe ejects lesbian couple for kissing". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
- ^ "Vienna Pride: 'There is still work to be done'". The Local Austria. 2016-06-19. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
- ^ "Größte Erfolge | Rechtskomitee Lambda". www.rklambda.at (in German). Retrieved 2022-08-07.
- ^ "25 Jahre andersrum. Die Rosa Lila Villa an der Linken Wienzeile 102 — IG Kultur". web.archive.org. 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
- ^ "Vienna". Rainbow Cities Network. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
- ^ "Vienna's traffic lights are now gay-themed". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
- ^ m53grj. "Diversity-themed traffic lights in Vienna". www.wien.gv.at. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Mader, Herwig Hakan (2016-11-14). "Wiener Verdienstzeichen für Helmut Graupner und Andreas Brunner". GGG.at (in German). Retrieved 2022-08-07.
- ^ a b "Vienna is promoting LGBTIQ rights | Interview with Mayor Michael Ludwig". PES Group in the European Committee of the Regions. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
- ^ "Heinz-Heger-Park". www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at (in German (formal address)). Retrieved 2022-08-07.
- ^ "Fast Track City Wien – Kampf gegen HIV/Aids". Gemeinsam aktiv (in German). 2018-05-14. Retrieved 2022-08-07.