Same-sex couple traffic lights taken down by far-right party The Austrian city of Linz has decided to scrap their LGBT friendly traffic lights. Markus Hein, Linz’s traffic official and member of the far-right Freedom Party, told AFP that “Traffic lights are for traffic, “and should not be misused to impart advice on how to live your
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Five children from same-sex families are challenging marriage equality laws in Austria. Austria’s lack of marriage equality is being challenged by children of same-sex parents in the country. The children joined their parents in court in Vienna yesterday, to protest the ban on same-sex marriage in Austria. They hope to encourage a change in the
Openly lesbian Greens MEP and co-president of the European Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBT Rights Ulrike Lunacek was attacked at Vienna’s Rainbow Parade on Friday, marring an event in which 150,000 marched for LGBTI equality. Police are still searching for the perpetrator who threw butyric acid on Lunacek. Never before has there been an attack at the