2024-05-17 13:39:00
It is on Friday Worldwide Day Towards Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (“IDAHOBIT”). The 17. Might use activists, civil society and political events to attract consideration to the (lack of) rights of the LGBTIQ group.
The safety of the LGBTIQ group is immediately associated to the EU election on June ninth, emphasised Evelyn Regner, Vice President of the European Parliament (SPÖ) at a press convention. “Those that see hatred towards the group are those who’re shaking up democracy as such.”
After the federal SPÖ selected its election proposal for the Nationwide Council election just a few weeks in the past, it obtained criticism, together with from Gay initiative. LGBTIQ spokesman Lindner ended up in eleventh place and thus a shaky place. On the state and regional lists simply one other queer particular person the possibility of shifting in, in line with the critics. When requested about this, Lindner stated: “Would I’ve wished for a greater place? After all. I used to be in the identical place in 2017 and it labored out then too.” Regner added: “And it’ll work out now too.”
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“Sexual orientation isn’t a illness”
The NEOS additionally beforehand held the federal government accountable. There may be nonetheless no ban on so-called “Conversion therapies” – i.e. remedies aimed toward “reversing” queer individuals, largely younger individuals – though Justice Minister Alma Zadić (Greens) had introduced this a number of occasions.
The pink LGBTIQ spokesman is especially disillusioned with the small coalition associate: “The Greens ought to truly know that these pseudoscientific ‘therapies’ are a pathological follow that ought to have been abolished way back. Sexual orientation isn’t a illness, there’s nothing to be cured right here. The one ones who’re sick are these spiritual fundamentalists who attempt in useless to alter youngsters and younger individuals’s minds with these disgusting ‘therapies’,” emphasizes Yannick Shetty to the APA.
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Too little safety
Moreover, there’s a lack of awareness-raising measures amongst authorities, within the office and in academic establishments, in addition to urgently wanted investments in training and integration measures, stated Shetty. In Vienna – the place the NEOS co-govern – the primary queer training middle opened in autumn.
Following this instance, nationwide and simply accessible recommendation facilities for LGBTIQ younger individuals are additionally wanted within the international locations. One other main level of criticism from the group is that there’s nonetheless no safety towards discrimination within the non-public sector primarily based on sexual orientation (“levelling-up”).
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“Goal of right-wing agitation and violence”
The Greens, for his or her half, emphasised that the Primary and human rights of the queer group are in danger from an rising shift to the precise, additionally in Europe. “Particularly, trans and non-binary individuals are more and more the goal of right-wing agitation and violence,” the spokesman for LGBTIQ+, David Stögmüller, is quoted as saying in a broadcast.
“We’ve got to battle collectively for full equality and full safety towards discrimination for the queer group,” stated Stögmüller. Marion Polaschek, chairwoman of the unbiased commerce union group within the ÖGB, additionally expressed help for the group on Friday.
Demo on Mariahilfer Straße
Like yearly, the Gay Initiative is organizing one on the night (from 6:00 p.m.) of “IDAHOBIT” beneath the motto “#queersagainstfascism”. Demo from the West station to the Sq. of Human Rights. It begins on Christian Broda Sq..
Politicians from the SPÖ, NEOS and the Greens, in addition to activists from numerous NGOs resembling Queerbase, will give speeches and carry out drag performances.
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