Vienna Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == LGBT == Vienna is considered the center of [[LGBT]] life in Austria.<ref>{{Cite web |title=For LGBT |url=https://www.wien.info/en/all-of-vienna/gay-lesbian |access-date=7 August 2022 |website=vienna.info |language=en |archive-date=13 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813190713/https://www.wien.info/en/all-of-vienna/gay-lesbian |url-status=live }}</ref> The city has an action plan against queerphobic discrimination and, since 1998, has an anti-discrimination unit within the city's administration.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Viennese Antidiscrimination Unit for Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Issues |url=https://rm.coe.int/1680488fd3 |access-date=8 August 2022 |archive-date=7 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807161020/https://rm.coe.int/1680488fd3 |url-status=live }}</ref> The city has several cafés, bars and clubs frequented by LGBT people. Among the most prominent is [[Café Savoy]], which is a traditional coffee house built in 1896. In 2015, the city introduced traffic lights with same-sex couples before hosting the [[Eurovision Song Contest]] that year, which attracted media attention internationally.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Vienna's traffic lights are now gay-themed |language=en-US |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/05/12/viennas-traffic-lights-are-now-gay-themed/ |access-date=7 August 2022 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=6 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306052500/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/05/12/viennas-traffic-lights-are-now-gay-themed/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Every year in June, [[Vienna Pride]] is organized. In 2019, when the pride parade was also hosting [[Europride]], it attracted 500.000 visitors.<ref>{{Cite web |last=red |first=wien ORF at/Agenturen |date=15 June 2019 |title=Halbe Million bei Regenbogenparade |url=https://wien.orf.at/stories/3000508/ |access-date=7 August 2022 |website=wien.ORF.at |language=de |archive-date=26 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926020137/https://wien.orf.at/stories/3000508/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page