Attention, Gigi shocking images, where is Agheasma? I attended Vienna Pride, where I saw people-people, men covered only with … a sock, children and thousands of people in eccentric clothing
LGBT demonstration, in Vienna, the metropolis where The national of Romania played fixed a week ago in the preliminaries. Tens of thousands of people advocated in the capital of Austria in the traditional “Pride Parade”, a march reached its 29th edition, with full color parties, but also difficult to endure, as well as controversial political positions.
The rainbow parade is the climax of the LGBTIQ+ demonstrations that debuted in Vienna on May 31, March preceded on Friday by another large demonstration – “Pride Run”, – a sporting event designed to increase the visibility of minorities in sport.
“Vienna Pride”, considered to be the largest demonstration in Austria, has removed In the street over 200,000 people. Basically, as much as 3 stadiums “Ernst Happel” – the arena that Romania was losing a week ago – filled full eyes.
The event that the LGBTIQ+ community was thoroughly prepared over the past two weeks He created, from the first hours of the morning, an indescribable, almost unimaginable lump in the city.
It's an impossible event to overlook through its dimensions, Especially since it crosses Ringstrasse, one of Europe's most aesthetic boulevards.
Ringstrass has been prepared to the smallest details for the parade, from LGBT flags in six lanes as you see with their eyes to the thematically decorated cars or the trams inscribed and with the “Progress Pride Flag” flag, an updated version of the Flag.
March started quietly, in memory of victims from Graz
This year's march has begun quiet, in the sign of tribute to the victims of the terrible armed attack spent in Graz, the second largest city of Austria.
The organizers urged the protesters to participate in a march of silence to the Vienna Parliament, urging them to come to them with the flags and mourning ribbons to deposit in front of the building on the same Ringstrasse Boulevard.
“In memory of the victims of Graz, the parade will start quietly. We call on all the participants to go in silence, without music or applause, in a mourning procession to the Parliament,” the organizers said on the promotion channels of the event.
Stopping quietly in front of the Parliament was established in the second part of the week, as a result of the worst armed attack in the history of the country, a resulting 10 dead. On Tuesday, Chancellor Christian Stocker had decreed three days of national mourning.
Naked people and people-people, extreme clothing and excesses on Ringstrasse
An endless column of people, directed by draconian filters by armed police to the teeth, arrived in the Karlsplatz area, near the opera, around 1:00 pmfrom where he would continue his march on the established route.
On the floor, in discovered shots, trams or other improvised vehicles, making up a living and multicolored color, with thousands of flags, banners and messages with political, social or religious connotations.the demonstrations have marched uninterruptedly on the main traffic arteries in the center of Vienna, followed from the sidewalks not only by the supporters of the movement, but also by the curious mouth, journalists, photographers, representatives of law enforcement, children and elderly.
The manifestation is not uniform, it joins the march including Straight couples, undisturbed by the surrounding scenes.
On the street, mixed non-discriminatory, there are bare kids, who hide their genital organs with only a sock, as well as eccentric people. There are people with deviant behavior, dressed in canine costumes, who believe that they should be treated by others.
The mix is complemented by people who hold young children, 3-4 years old, immune to the exhibitionism of others. There are shocking images for a Romanian, things that contravene the good morals, as can be seen in the photo gallery below.
Policy in Picking Steps: Messages from Vienna Gay Parade
The gay parade was this year not only a celebration of diversity and LGBTQ+rights, as the event was promoted, CI and a scene of intense political expression. Under colorful banners in the rainbow, the participants sent messages that far exceeded the sphere of civil rights, reaching hot themes of global geopolitics.
The trucks that paraded displayed a series of strong political tint messages.
From supporting the Palestinian cause (“Palestine Pride”) to Explicit Anti-Usua, Anti-Israel or Anti-Russia.the atmosphere was marked by a transnational activism. Portraits of world leaders, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin or Benjamin Netanyahu, were ironed on banners, presented as symbols of oppression or intolerance.
In one of these, on the background in the colors of the rainbow, Trump and Putin kissed. An adaptation of the “Fratern kiss” between Soviet leader Leonid Brejnev and East German President Erich Honecker, drawn in the form of graffiti on the Berlin Wall.
Another message with direct sending to Putin was inscribed on a banner in the colors of the rainbow: Putin's war with LGBTQ rights is a global danger to human rights. ”
LGBTQ supporters, message with direct reference to Vladimir Putin / Photo: Remus Dinu (Sports Gazeta / GSP.ro)
“Black Pride” has found alongside “Palestine Pride” in a visible solidarity between marginalized communitieswhile slogans like “Make Love, Not War” or “We're Making Love, Not Terror” sent a pacifist message, but with critical accents to the involvement of Israel in the conflict in Gaza and, more recently, in Iran.
The Israeli flag, inserted near such slogans, suggested not only the condemnation of violence, but also a reaction to the recent policies of Tel Aviv.
Another message, “Los Angeles, this is the way”, referred to tense events in California, where the ICE site has escalated quickly in recent weeks.
Security measures not encountered, and services patrol on sidewalks
The event is, by its nature, one with a high degree of risk. For this reason, dozens of policemen were mobilized on the spot, numerous special vehicles serving as “antemer” for the parade this afternoon.
In addition to the police, dozens of members of the special troops, armed with aist-grave and other semi-automatic weapons, were present in the area.
Also, on the sidewalks, agents of Austrian secret services, dressed in black and wearing sunglasses, who supervised the events in the Schwarzenbergplatz area were also made.
From 2019, Austria recognizes same -sex marriages
Austria is one of the European countries in which the rights of LGBTQ+ persons are legally recognized and protected.
The Constitutional Court of Austria has decided since 2017 that the same -sex people have the right to marry.
The Austrians recognize the marriage between people of the same sex of 2019, when the country became the fifteenth in Europe where homosexuality enters legality. Prior to this moment, same -sex people had only one option, to conclude civil partnerships, but they offered fewer rights than marriage, according to Freedom.
Since 2016, The same sex couples in Austria also have the right to adopt children, and both partners can be legally recognized as parents.
Homosexual relationships, but not involved marriage, were legal in Austria since 1971.
39%Of the people in Austria, they often avoid or always keep their same -sex partner in public. At European Union level, the percentage is much higher: 61%, according to existing studies
A former Austrian swimmer, on the list of athletes who acknowledged that they are gay
When it comes to Austrian athletes who support the LGBTIQ+community, at the top of the list is Dominik Koll, a swimmer who participated in the 2004 Olympic Games, but also in the 2008 edition, from Beijing. He was among the first Olympic athletes in his country who went public to declare their sexual orientation.
Dominik Koll won the bronze at the 2008 Europeans from Eindhoven / Photo: Imago Images
Austria, public position to Viktor Orban's position
Even at the end of last month, Austria and 16 other Member States of the European Union – not Romania – asked the European Commission To adopt a firm position against the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who intends to ban publicly public events in Hungary.
“We are deeply alarmed by these developments,” he wrote in the document signed by Austria and 15 other Member States of the European Union, according to Politico.
Hungary has expressed its intention to implement fines for organizers and participants in events of sexual minorities, under the pretext of child protection.
Photo so was in Munich, at the Pride Festival of June 2024
