Below the motto “Delight is an illustration” the various contributors – together with many from politics – of the “largest demonstration in Austria” demanded extra rights for LGBTIQ folks. There have been no incidents.
The Rainbow Parade was as soon as once more organized by the Vienna Gay Initiative (HOSI) as an “necessary image of lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) life”. This 12 months the demonstration consisted of a complete of 92 adorned vehicles, different automobiles and teams of contributors. The vigorous hustle and bustle was to finish at 6 p.m. within the “Vienna Delight Village”, the place performances by Conchita Wurst and this 12 months’s track contest participant Kaleen had been on this system.
Photograph gallery: 340,000 folks on the Rainbow Parade on Vienna’s Ring
28. Vienna Delight – Rainbow Parade (Photograph: AFP/MAX SLOVENCIK) Bild 1/40
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Wurst alias Thomas Neuwirth has been performing nationally and internationally for 20 years. Delight Parades. “I do not know what number of there have been,” the singer informed ORF. However the first occasion of this type on June 15 in Dangerous Ischl within the Salzkammergut – the area the place Neuwirth was born, the place he will even seem as Conchita – was notably particular. “Quite a bit has occurred there,” stated Neuwirth.
Babler and Bures among the many company
There was additionally a big turnout from politicians: from the SPÖ, federal social gathering chief Andreas Babler, the second president of the Nationwide Council Doris Bures, EU prime candidate Andreas Schieder and the Vienna metropolis councilors Jürgen Czernohorszky and Peter Hacker took half. From the Greens, Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler, Well being Minister Johannes Rauch, Local weather Safety Minister Leonore Gewessler and Justice Minister Alma Zadić got here. Lastly, the NEOS had been represented by their social gathering chief Beate Meinl-Reisinger, the Vienna Vice Mayor Christoph Wiederkehr and EU prime candidate Helmut Brandstätter.
“Strongest motion worldwide”
“Right now we see: Delight brings 1000’s of individuals onto the streets to face up towards injustice and converse out regarding it. Delight is likely one of the strongest actions on this planet immediately, the place folks come collectively for trigger and wish to make this world a greater place. Delight just isn’t a momentary motion, not a passing section, not a fad that may disappear, not a craze that may settle down once more, neither is it an promoting product that sells effectively,” stated organizer Katharina Kacerovsky-Strobl, managing director of Stonewall GmbH, to the APA.
Ann-Sophie Otte, chairwoman of HOSI Vienna, was additionally happy concerning the giant inflow of individuals to the Rainbow Parade. “It’s important that we take to the streets immediately, whether or not that’s for cover towards discrimination, an finish to medically pointless operations on intersex kids or the urgently wanted ban on so-called ‘conversion therapies’, as a result of it’s unacceptable that Austria just isn’t shifting ahead a millimetre on these necessary human rights points,” she stated. The group now makes up ten % of the inhabitants – and thus ten % of voters. Otte referred to as on them to “vote for an open and LGBTIQ-friendly Europe” in tomorrow’s European elections.
Elevated safety precautions
After a terrorist incident on the occasion final 12 months, safety measures had been elevated this 12 months, which was mirrored in a extra seen police presence. A search warrant was issued for the “Vienna Delight Village” on Rathausplatz. Solely these individuals who enable their clothes and containers to be searched are allowed to enter.
In line with ÖAMTC mobility info, the parade brought regarding delays in visitors as a result of hours-long closures on the Ring. Tram traces 1, 2, 71 and D in addition to inner-city bus traces had been briefly diverted or rerouted.
This text was final up to date at 17:21.
