As part of EuroPride 2019 in Vienna, there was also a Kiss Flash Mob in front of the University of Vienna. In addition, the main university painted the steps to the main building in rainbow colours.
On Saturday evening, the 12th Diversity Ball presented by T-Mobile in the Vienna Kursalon staged the colourfulness of our society as a spectacle of joie de vivre and togetherness.
Sold out! Long queues formed at the gates of the 12th Diversity Ball in the Kursalon on Saturday evening. More than 2000 guests, among them numerous celebrities, accepted the invitation of ball mother Monika Haider.
After the rainbow parade the Rainbow Celebation started in the Pride Village. Numerous politicians came on stage to assure the LGBTIQ community of their solidarity.
Yesterday Pride Village was full despite the cooler temperatures. The girls and boys from the English Theatre brought the whole village to the boil with the fantastic musical Rent.
And here is already the second part of the drag race on Friday the 16.3.2018 in Why Not in the heart of Vienna - with all-time-favourites Tamara Mascara and Jacques Patriaque.
The Grazer Tuntenball 2018 once again outshone everything else and the capital city of Styria was a beacon for the gay, lesbian, trans- and intersexual, queer Austrian community.
The atmosphere at the Graz Tuntenball 2018 in the Congress Center was great again. The whole Austrian LGBTIQ scene looked at the Styrian capital or was present, as we could see for ourselves with the many faces from Vienna.
Before the midnight quadrille concluded the last part of the programme and the Graz LGBTIQ community danced into the early morning hours, the congress was bathed in all the colours of the rainbow by an opulent light show.
The Viennese Rainbow Ball 2018 at the Parkhotel Schönbrunn was, as every year, once again a grand celebration of love, tolarance and respect for everyone, not only gays, bisexuals, lesbians, transgender and intersexuals.
The Rainbow Ball 2018 was opened as every year by the debutantes, woman with woman, woman with man, man with man, just as it should be on Vienna’s queersten Ball!
The artists at the midnight performance and in the other halls of the Parkhotel Schönbrunn also make the Rainbow Ball 2018 a queer highlight of the ball season.
And here’s the last part of the photos of the Rainbowball 2018: We’re already looking forward to 2019, when the ball will open the Europride 2019 in Vienna.
As promised, here is the third part of the photos of the birthday party of Why Not Vienna - since 37 years from the Viennese gay community is indispensable!
And here comes the second part of our pics from Felixx Vienna. The gay bar was crammed with gays and lesbians and we are looking forward to the gay Oktoberfest next year.
The creative has dared to treat famous Burgenland operetta “The Gipsy Princess” or also known as “The Riviera Girl” from composer Emmerich Kálmán the gay way … very colorfull and queer in every sense.
The entry to the Rosa Wiener Wiesn party has been a very traditional one indeed: An Austrian-style Schlager band headed by the incumbent imperial couple.
Red Carpet, Vienna’s hot gay bar and club has themed Saturday’s gay party with all 4 seasons of the year. Of course we took some photos for you. Enjoy watching them!
Hier haben wir Fotos von der Wiener Regenbogegenparade 2017 aus der Sicht von Fetisch-Freunden für Euch. Der Fotograf Clemens Pfeiffer hat die Gruppe rund um den LMC bzw. das Hard On begleigtet!
Und hier sind sie, die heiß erwarteten Fotos der Wiener Regenbogenparade 2017. Ab 11:00 Uhr gab es das Warm-up im Pride Village am Wiener Rathausplatz.
Am Sonntag war der Tierpark Schönbrunn voller Regenbogenfahnen. Der Pride Day im Zoo stand unter dem Zeichen der Eröffnung des Regenbogenfamilienzentrums in Wiens 5. Bezirk Margareten.
Der Pride Day im Prater fand 2017 zum erstem mal statt. Die grandiose Opening Show von Angelo Conti und seinen Kolleginen hat das Publikum im Wiener Prater schwer begeistert.
„Vienna Pride“, Österreichs größte Veranstaltung der LSBTIQ-Community, findet 2017 von 9. bis 18. Juni statt. Das Event wird heuer zu einem einwöchigen Festival ausgebaut und auf mehrere Örtlichkeiten der Stadt ausgeweitet, die sich über ganz Wien – vom Prater bis nach Schönbrunn – erstrecken.
Mario Soldo hat gezaubert und die Models mit Kleidung von Humana über den Laufsteg geschickt. Die Models kamen aus allen 6 Dimensionen der Diversity und auch ein paar Promis liefen mit.
The 10th Diversity Ball in 2017 at Kursalon Wien was a huge success. People of all colors, ethnics, religion, age, sex and sexual orientation and with our without disabilities made an overwhelmingly loud and positiv statement for diversity and acceptance.
Mario Soldo has called for the fashion show shooting for 2017s Diversity Ball and they all have responded: Monika Haider the “mother of the ball”, the organisation team, the models and of course plenty of visitors and jhournalists.
We’ve been to the luxury design & furniture fair H.O.M.E.D.E.P.O.T. 2017 at Semperdepot in Vienna’s 6th district Mariahilf. The Semperdepot alone is worth a visit, not to speak about the cool design you’ll see.
Das Staraufgebot zur Jubiläumsaufgabe war überwältigend. Unter anderem Conchita Wurst beehrte die BallbesucherInnen mit ihrer Anwesenheit und einem Ständchen.
Since 36 years, Why not is the bench mark for all other gay clubs in Vienna. Happy birthday Why Not, we saltue to the next 36 years of fun and glamour.
Here’s the 2nd part of the pictures from Vienna City Tuntathlon 2016. It was a feast of joy, but also of aceptance and politics. Donations have been collected for queerbace, a project of Türkis-Rosa-Lila-Villa taking care of LGBTIAQ refugees.
Vienna City Tuntathlon 2016 in the rainbow heart of Vienna - Mariahilf. Katrinka Kitschovsky, Queen Mum & Die Schefin, aka the tuntathletic commitee have invited to the traditionalTuntathlon (= gayathon) again.
Like promised, there’s more. In this case part two of the Rainbow Celebration at Regenbogenpark. Special Guests: Alex Palmieri, La Pelopony & Matt Leon Band.
After the Rainbow Parade, thousands of participants gathered at the Rainbowpark to celebrate pride, as well as listgen to the great show acts and the politicians.
Bei strahlendem Sonnenschein und angenehmen 25 Grad marschierten 130.000 Menschen am 18. Juni 2016 auf einer etwas ungewöhnlichen Route um für die Rechte von Schwulen, Lesben, Bisexuellen, Transgender, Intersexuellen, Asexuellen und Queers im allgemeinen zu demonstrieren.
The pics of Day 2 are online. It was raining for a few minutes, but hostess Miss Candy scared away the raindrops by here incredible congeniality, so the way was free for the show tunes.
Here they are, the first pictures of this year’s Rainbow Park just opposite Votiv church. The first day brought plenty of sunshine and many students from the University of Vienna joined the LGBTIAQ community celebrating Pride with their friends.
This year, the queer street fair occupied Otto-Bauer-Gasse again, right in the heart of Vienna, just around the corner of Mariahilfer Straße, Vienna’s main shopping street.
Here they are, the photos from Vienna’s Rosenball 2016. Miss Candy - hostess for many years - has again invited the whole Viennese LGBTQ - and all the rest to celebrate carnival. We definitively love the Rosenball much more then it’s litte competitor, the Opera Ball that took place the same night in the Viennese State Opera.
Here are the photos of the traditional Viennese Rainbow Ball 2016. And the ball night was as glamourous as ever. The location parc hotel Schönbrunn was colored in rainbow colours and gay and lesbian couples stormed the dancefloor with their performance. Of cours Vienna’s trans community didn’t miss the ball either.
Jacques Patriaque has invited to the Garden of Freaks and all of them have listened to his call - Tamara Mascara, Mia Soho, Gerry Keszler, Damien Thorne and many more …
Don’t put your Lederhosen and Dirndln into the closet yet - Rosa Wiener Wiesn 2015 is over, yes, but there’s good old gay Frühschoppen on October 10. In the meantime enjoy our photos.
Yes, it’s open, the long waited for gay and lesbian chrismasmarket. There are a few community member stands on location: Red Carpet, Village, a French crepe stand with delidous sweet and salty delicacies and the AIDS Foundation of Vienna. Considerably gay-friendly is also Gauthier-Mückstein.
Whoever missed the 2015 Tuntathlon on Saturday, 27th June in Mariahilf is very welcome to view our pics here. Katharaina Kitchovsky and her crew have reactivated the gayathletic comittee and called for participation in the disciplines synchroniced ironing, hand bag throwing and high heels torch relay.
Here they are, our pictures from the Rainbow Parade 2015. And there will be added more and more pictures over time, so come here more often. Have fun, watching them.
Here we have some more pictures from 5 days of Pride Village at the Viennese City Hall Square for you. Thanks to everybody who has paid a visit to our tent and also to CSD Vienna for the excellent organisation and the shows. It was just great. See you at #ViennaPride2016.
Und hier sind sie - unsere Fotos vom 10. queeren Straßenfest „andersrum ist nicht verkehrt in Mariahilf“. Der „inoffizielle“ Auftakt der Pride Week hat dieses Jahr alle Rekorde gesprengt: Eine neue & größere Location, die größte Anzahl an KünstlerInnen, die jemals in den letzten 10 Jahren dabei waren und wir vermuten auch fast einen Rekord an Gruppen und BesucherInnen.
Steve Grand talked about his Coming Out, his music and his support for the LGBTIQ Community at Dschungel Wien. Thanks to the US Embassy in Austria and ITGETSBETTERAUSTRIA for inviting him to Vienna!
The hottest parties of the whole week take place at the Euro Club at Ottakringer Brauerei. The official delegates, the artists and the press meet here to hang out, celebrate, and perform on the main stage. The highlight was of course the performance of Conchita Wurst.
If you didn’t go to the Boylesque Festival Vienna this year, well - it’s your own fault. Jacques Patriaque has presented more than fantastic artists the crème de la crème of the international Boylesque community..
And so it has begun … #ESC2015 has finally arrived in Vienna and we can hardly believe it. The atmosphere in the city has definitifely changed. Everybody seems more happy and relaxed.
Most of the guests of Life Ball 2015 have oriented themselves to the Motto of this years ball “Ver Sacrum” and dressed themseves “Art-Nouveau-ish”. You could see loads of gold and glitter on the Magenta Carpet.
Not only celebreties, whatever their degree of popularity, entered the Life Ball 2015 in Vienna via the Magenta Carpet, but also the less famous guests of the ball. The costumes this year were especially creative.
Jean-Paul Gaultier sent many celeb models eg. Conchita Wurst and Dita von Teese on the Red Ribbon Catwalk and created a fireworks of sophisticated fashion. He is a true fashion genius.
Again we have to say many thanks to the RosaLilaPantherInnen, the most prominent Styrian LGBTIQ resources group for the fantastic event and look forward to the next time.
Rosenball has changed locations this year from Palais Ausperg to Kursalon Vienna and has surpassed all our expectations! Miss Candy was fabulous as ever and Sophie Ellix-Bextor rocked the audience. Despite the much bigger location Kursalon was quite crowded. Most of the guests were inspired by the Indian motto of Diwali and dressed in fabulous Bollywood costumes and the atmosphere was just great.
Rainbow Ball 2015 at Parkhotel Schönbrunn is over and like always, everybody had a blast. The official Vienna joined the visitors and the host Lucy McEvil was sharp-tongued and brilliant as ever and the acts and the quadrille have delighted the audience.
Vienna Dance Contest 2014 is over … and it was as great as the last 8 times. Some of the best same-sex dancing couples in the world came to Vienna to celebrate together with many other euphoric dancing couples from Austria and abroad - in the fun contest as well as in the Viennese Waltz Contest.
It was “sakrisch” is was loud and overall very pink - the Rosa Wiener Wiesn 2014 in the Wojnar’s tent. And certainly we were part of it and made pictures for you. Enjoy watching them!
ES Collection at Laimgrubengasse, just across Mango Bar has celebrated its second birthday. And of course we didn’t want to miss the hot models the spanish labels sent from Barcelona to congratulate the Viennese flagship store.
The Rainbow Parade 2014 in Vienna is over! More than 150.000 participants and 54 groups, from huge trucks to walking groups, made this parade one of the biggest of all times.
The first day of Pride Village was just great. There were much more people than on the first day of last year’s pride village. But have a look yourself!
For the 9th time the queer street fair happened in the 6th district of Vienna - Mariahilf - but this time for the first time ever with a openly gay district mayor - Markus Rumelhart. He was organizing the event the last 8 years, but this year his partner - Manuel Bräuhofer - took over.
Vienna has finally gotten its third permanent gay club - right in the middle of the gay village at Naschmarkt. The grand opening has topped all expectations - The Red Carpet and its new dancefloor has been crammed with hot boys until dawn.
!gay vienna wien schwul hotel zeitgeist gay-friendlyUnser Kooperationspartner - das gay-friendly Hotel Zeitgeist im Sonnwendviertel am neuen Zentralbahnhof Wien hat seinen ersten Geburtstag gefeiert - und wir waren selbstverständlich dabei. Selbstverständlich haben wir auch Fotos gemacht.
The 23rd Rosenball consequently reflected its Motto: The Big Movies from Hollywood and attracted many guests from Austria and abroad to Vienna’s Palais Auersperg. Together they enjoyed the melange of glamorous costumes and traditional white tie and shaked their legs until dawn.
Rainbow Ball 2014 at Parkhotel Schönbrunn is history. We’re already looking forward to 2015. Counless artists, guests of honour and a lot of politicians were present.
Here are the photos of “The Secret”. The new event in Tiffany’s Club in the Hilton Vienna close to Statpark was a full access as you can see on the pictures. Enjoy watching them!
Das Diversity Referat der WKW hat das Riesenrad im Wiener Prater angemietet und als „Rad der Vielfalt“ präsentiert. In den Waggonen des Riesenrads wurden alle 6 Dimensionen des Diversity Management vorgestellt um den BesucherInnen die Lust auf mehr Diversität in Ihren Unternehmen zu machen.
