Fewer sponsors, more hate on the streets: Vienna Pride celebrates in defiance of the backlash

Saturday, Jun 13, 2026

Der Standard

Vienna Pride faces shrinking events amid rising hate and lack of full equality for queer people in Austria.

🔗 Read the article on derstandard.at

[This is an automatically generated summary, for reference only]

The Wiener Pride is facing challenges, including fewer sponsors and increased hostility, while political protection against discrimination remains inadequate. Despite these issues, the annual Rainbow Parade will take place on Saturday at the Wiener Ring, serving as both a large outdoor party and a protest against the lack of full equality for queer people in Austria.

🔗 Read the original article

Previous page Athens Pride 2026: LGBTQ+ individuals standing against the tide of Trumpism

Next page Cannabis is the most common drug in Austria, while cocaine consumption remains at a high level

PULSE is an initiative coordinated by OBCT that has been promoting intensive journalistic cross-border collaborations in Europe since 2024. Its main aim is to help strengthen the European public sphere by reporting on and telling stories from new and diverse perspectives.

At the heart of PULSE are 10 leading national news outlets (Delfi – Lithuania, Deník Referendum – Czechia, Der Standard – Austria, EfSyn – Greece, El Confidencial – Spain, Gazeta Wyborcza – Poland, HotNews – Romania, HVG – Hungary, Il Sole 24 Ore – Italy, Mediapool – Bulgaria) and three transnational organisations, including OBCT , n-ost and Voxeurop .

Additional outlets and journalists are involved as associate partners, including EUobserver , Føljeton (Denmark), H-Alter (Croatia), Levila (Estonia), Rubryka (Ukraine), and The Journal Investigates (Ireland).

PULSE is driven by a sort of virtual transnational newsroom made up of journalists from all the publications involved. It collaboratively produces new journalistic content on European issues on a daily basis, coming in many different languages. The editorial output amounts to over a thousand publications per year, mostly in article form.

PULSE also runs 4 thematic networks open to any European journalist interested in crucial issues such as EU enlargement, relations between the EU and other global powers, the EU’s green transition, or media and the information society. These networks function as online communities and periodically publish calls for pitches.