RosaLila Panthers

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The RosaLila Pantherinnen - Schwul-Lesbische ARGE Steiermark , founded in 1991 as Rosarote Panther , is a Styrian association that works for the equality of lesbians , gays , bisexuals and transgender people. It is the only association of this population group in Styria. The association has had its current name since 1997.

The chairman is Joe Niedermayer, the club's Feel Free is located on Annenstrasse in Graz .

activities

The most important functions of the association are:

  • Peer counseling for lesbians , gays , bisexuals and their families ; Advice on coming out
  • Encounter offers for the target groups; as women and men room master table, the group of young people get out of hand , the TransGender group and encounter circuit homosexual and belief furnished
  • Safe sex education
  • Creating distribution of brochures and running a library
  • Creation of the Grazer Gay Guide .

In addition to the Tuntenball, the annual CSD Graz , a parade including a CSD park festival in the Volksgarten, is a striking event of visibility and a fun factor in the life of the lesbian and gay community in Graz.

The school workshop project Liebeist.org [Love is Arg] started in the summer of 2007 as an idea of ​​some young club members "who wanted to actively fight against unequal treatment and discrimination against people who live differently." The result of their work was an information and Educational folder that was sent across the board to all Styrian schools and youth facilities in autumn of the same year. As a result, team workshops for schools were designed and carried out.

Tuntenball

On February 17, 1990, the first Tuntenball took place in the university canteen of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz , motto: Up and down with your high-heeled shoe . The organizers wanted to "self-confidently counter the often disparaging and derogatory attitude towards queens, in public as well as in parts of the gay scene". There was dancing to Gloria Gaynor's disc version of I Am What I Am and at midnight, travesty artists from Graz and the surrounding area performed "with comedic playback interpretations of arias and hits".

The ball quickly became an institution, found a new home in the Meerscheinschlössl from 1996 and in 2003 - the year Graz was European Capital of Culture - in the Graz Congress . Today the net proceeds of the ball finance the entire annual operations of the RosaLila Pantherinnen association and ensure its financial and political independence. The 25th Graz Tuntenball took place on February 22nd, 2014 - under the motto Nostalchic - Anything Goes . Elisabeth Gürtler's greeting address began with a quote from Gustav Mahler : “Tradition is the passing on of fire and not the worship of ashes.” The star guest was Lilo Wanders , 2,400 guests danced through the night.

Political work

The Panthers have seen themselves as a political action group since they were founded, determined to enforce the recognition and equality of the population group they represent. That is why they regularly used the publicity around the Tuntenball for public relations work on gender equality issues. In three cases the panthers achieved political successes of supraregional importance:

Care leave in the state service

As early as 1996, the Panthers managed to ensure that Styrian state employees who live in same-sex communities are granted care leave if their partner falls ill. It was the first federal state in Austria to introduce such a regulation and was all the more surprising when the then governor Waltraud Klasnic was provided by the ÖVP .

Hyphen in double names

When the registered partnership (EP) for same-sex partners was introduced in Austria in 2010, there were around sixty inequalities with the institute of marriage . On the one hand, the family status was withheld from the EP by the ÖVP ; on the other hand, all forms of adoptions and medically assisted procreation were banned. Many couples considered it humiliating that on the one hand they were not allowed to celebrate the ceremony of their marriage - solely due to the rigid line of the ÖVP - at the registry office , but in front of the district administration that their common surname is not a family name and that if they choose one Double name the hyphen was denied. This enabled every HR manager to determine when viewing an application that it was an applicant in a same-sex partnership.

Two partner members of the Panthers sued the Constitutional Court against the discrimination of the missing hyphen and asserted that in future an EP can also lead to a double name with a hyphen. The judgment applies to all of Austria.

Wedding room for everyone

Although same-sex couples have been able to enter into a registered partnership in Austria since 2010 , the mayor of Graz, Siegfried Nagl , refused the ceremony for lesbian and gay couples in the Graz wedding hall in the town hall . Right from the start, the Panthers resisted this resetting and finally founded a platform in the summer of 2013 - together with the Socialist Youth , Grazer SPÖ , KPÖ and the pirates - and started a signature campaign .

In August of the same year, Mayor Nagl - following a ruling by the Constitutional Court - opened the wedding hall for same-sex couples from September 1st. Then the mayor looked for a new name for the wedding hall of the Graz town hall, since partnering is not a wedding . The new name has not yet been found.

Austria-wide networking

The Panthers have been strongly committed to networking at the national level since they were founded. In 1993 they organized the 3rd Austrian Lesbian and Gay Forum (ÖLSF) and were among the co-founders of the association of the same name, which held its founding meeting on February 4, 1995 in Graz. The panthers also took part in the International Human Rights Tribunal on the subject of 50 years of the Second Republic, 50 years of suppression of lesbians and gays in Vienna and in 1996 in the first rainbow parade . At the Dornbirn ÖLSF Forum, the Graz activists attracted a lot of attention with a street action. The panthers Kurt Zernig and Hans-Peter Weingand , who are still on the association's board today, as well as long-time chairman Heinz Schubert, were particularly committed to networking . The partner page on their website shows how intensively the panthers are networked on a local and national level.

Pride magazine

The Styrian Homosexual Initiative (HOSI Steiermark), which existed from 1983 to 1989, is considered the panther's predecessor association . Their magazine was the Rosa Buschtrommel - also published until 1989 . The panthers continued this tradition by calling their magazine RosaLila Buschtrommel , which has existed since 1992 . In the year 2000 the bush drum was merged with the magazine of HOSI Linz - PRIDE . The HOSI Tirol association has also been one of the publishers since 2008 . PRIDE appears every two months and is the second largest non-commercial print medium for lesbians and gays in Austria.

Edition rainbow

In the study series Homosexuality of the association are u. a. the following volumes have appeared:

  • Karin Pirolt, Kurt Zernig, Hans-Peter Weingand : What if? - Registered partnerships of lesbians and gays in Austria. Comparative presentation of the legal instruments for same-sex couples in Europe and an assessment of the financial impact on the public sector when the registered partnership based on the Danish model is introduced in Austria. On behalf of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the analysis of economic and political activities . (Edition Rainbow - Study Series Homosexuality, Vol. 1). Graz 2000, ISBN 3-902080-00-0 .
  • Julius Zinner: Does the punishment of homosexuals correspond to our sense of justice? Edited and commented by Hans-Peter Weingand. (Edition Rainbow - Study Series Homosexuality, Vol. 2). Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902080-01-1 .
  • Martin J. Gössl: When the first coin flew and the revolution began. (Edition Rainbow - Study Series Homosexuality, Vol. 3). Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902080-02-8 .
  • Martin J. Gössl: From fornication to human rights. A collection of sources on lesbian and gay topics in the debates of the Austrian National Council from 1945 to 2002. (Edition Regenbogen - Study Series Homosexuality, Vol. 4). Graz 2012, ISBN 978-3-902080-03-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kevin Recher: A field that is still to be worked . Conversation with Hans-Peter Weingand. In: Annenpost. September 28, 2011, accessed February 28, 2014.
  2. ↑ Staff - RosaLila Pantherinnen . In: RosaLila Pantherinnen . ( homo.at [accessed on February 26, 2017]). Staff - RosaLila Pantherinnen ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.homo.at
  3. ↑ Kleine Zeitung : "Alles pailletti" at the Tuntenball. , Short video report of February 22, 2014, accessed May 3, 2020.
  4. ↑ Falter : I want a double bed . Gays in Styria: About Double Standards, Weddings and Religious Delusion, N. 6/2010, accessed on February 27, 2014.
  5. ↑ Die Standard: Styrian Rosalila Panthers are November 20 , 2011, accessed on February 27, 2014.
  6. ↑ Kleine Zeitung : Preparations for the Tuntenball are in progress.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. February 12, 2009, accessed February 27, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / archiv.kleine.at  
  7. ↑ Kronen Zeitung : Grazer Tuntenball celebrates its 20th anniversary. February 17, 2009, accessed February 27, 2014.
  8. ↑ Kleine Zeitung : The weirdest ball night in paradise. Kleine Zeitung , February 26, 2012, archived from the original on September 23, 2014 . ;.
  9. ^ ORF Styria: 20 years of "Rosalila Panthers". November 21, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014.
  10. ↑ Small-minded ÖVP mayor presented the small-minded variant. No registry office, no wedding hall. December 21, 2009, accessed February 27, 2014.
  11. ^ ORF Steiermark : Initiative wants to open the Graz wedding hall to everyone. July 31, 2013, accessed February 21, 2014.
  12. ↑ The standard : Graz wedding hall also opens for homosexual couples. August 19, 2013, accessed February 21, 2014.
  13. ↑ Talk of the town - wedding hall for everyone. Gregor Withalm in conversation with Martina Weixler (RosaLila Pantherinnen) and Sissy Potzinger (Catholic Family Association), accessed on February 21, 2014.
  14. ↑ Think Outside Your Box: ÖVP-Nagl: Grazer Trauungssaal gets a new name because it is open to lesbians and gays. , accessed February 21, 2014.
  15. ↑ Graz wedding hall gets a new name. Kleine Zeitung , August 21, 2013, archived from the original on September 17, 2014 . ;.
  16. ↑ Wedding locations of the city of Graz. ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. official website, accessed February 27, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.graz.at
  17. ↑ Partner of the RosaLila Panthers. ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 21, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.homo.at

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