The difference could not have been clearer: while Sunday after Sunday the opponents of the Corona measures marched through Steyr noisily, drumming and trilling, on Saturday afternoon a colorful crowd of 600 participants with rainbow flags walked peacefully from the Museum Arbeitswelt over the promenade and the town square back to the Starting point. Her concern: to demand respect and understanding for the LGBTQIA* community (note: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual/transgender, queer, intersex and asexual people). This is still affected by discrimination and exclusion in parts of society. But diversity has to be accepted, says Sabine Gamsjäger from the Dominikanerhaus: “I see parallels to the 1960s, when the sexual revolution started.”
The Pride Parade not only took place for the first time in Steyr, but also for the first time outside of a state capital. Georg Stimeder was correspondingly proud and overwhelmed by the response. The SP municipal council had organized the Steyr Pride together with his party colleague Katrin Auer, the two Green municipal councilors Ruth Pohlhammer and Julia Greger as well as HOSI Linz, the YOUnited team and the Catholic youth: “This body of thought should have been a matter of course for a long time.” However, just one Pride day is not enough for this cause, so Steyr has declared a whole Pride month. “And in the coming year we will certainly repeat all this.” Pohlhammer also confirms that the situation is very difficult for large parts of this community: “But everyone should be allowed to develop as they want, but with mutual respect.”
Source: Nachrichten
