Vienna Pride Week

This year, Vienna Pride will go on for a week for the first time. The high point is the Rainbow Parade on Vienna’s Ringstrasse on June 18, 2011, which will once again attract more than 100,000 gays, lesbians, transgendered people and friends.

Vienna Pride Week is taking place in the week of June 14-19, 2011. For the first time ever, a „Pride Village” will be built at the Kettenbrückengasse U4 subway station at the Naschmarkt. A tent city in the middle of the community where a mix of culture, shows, culinary treats and information will be on offer.

The high point of Pride Week is the Rainbow Parade on Saturday, June 18, 2011. On trailers, motorbikes, horse-drawn carriages or on foot: Gays, lesbians, drag queens,  leather boys, transgendered people and many more will celebrate the Rainbow Parade and demonstrate their solidarity against discrimination. The Vienna Ringstrasse will be closed to traffic, and the Rainbow Parade will proceed this year in the direction of traffic for the first time. It begins at 3:00 p.m. at the Schottenring.

The Rainbow Parade goes past the Schwedenplatz, the Urania, the City Park, Karlsplatz, the Hofburg and the Parliament building to City Hall Park, where this year the grand finale, the „Pride Show”, will take place for the first time - a big, fun open-air festival with a massive show program free of charge. After the open-air party is over, the party goes on:  several clubs will throw „Pride Parties” until the wee hours.

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