Gigi’s Brunching Divas” was a great show today (27.08.) as the opening event of the Salzburg Pride Festival 2023. Full house on the 14th floor of the arte Hotel Salzburg and rarely so much laughter on a Sunday noon. Gigi LaPajette and three of her Austrian drag queen colleagues enchanted the audience and gave Salzburg Pride a worthy start with their show. [Read more]

Salzburg’s leather and fetish community has been a present part of the Salzburg Pride for years. This year, too, the men around Gernot and Herwig will ensure a clear presence. Not only at the parade and the Pride Night with DJ Ambjörn Söderberg but also at other events. [Read more]

Salzburg Pride 2023 will probably continue the positive development of the last three years. Never before have the social conditions in the city of Mozart been better. This year, the HOSI Salzburg wants to take the Pride Festival to the next level. With a lot of support from Salzburg’s city society. The programme for 27.08.-3.09. has now been finalised. [Read more]

The Unken Pride 2023 last Saturday made the small mountain village of Unken in Pinzgau shine in rainbow colours. Around 300 participants sent a signal that diversity and love of all kinds have a place and are appreciated not only in the anonymous big cities, but also in the countryside. [Read more]

“Granting access even to the less well-off audience” was one of Max Reinhardt’s demands when he founded the Salzburg Festival in 1920. The “Festival Opening Celebration” consistently puts this maxim into practice – with free admission for all. On 22 and 23 July, 85 programme items with music, plays, readings, and much more present the broad artistic spectrum of this globally unique cultural festival. [Read more]

The city of Salzburg has its third rainbow zebra crossing. Right in front of the front door of HOSI Salzburg, the city sets a sign for the diversity of all people in the city of Mozart. With a kind of happening in best summer weather, the zebra crossing in Paris Lodron-Straße at the corner of Franz-Josef-Straße was opened to traffic by City Councillor Anna Schiester. [Read more]

From 27 August to 3 September it’s Prideweek and Pride in Salzburg again. The preparations are already going on intensively. Conny Felice, executive director of HOSI Salzburg talks here with gaysalzburg.at about the planning status of Prideweek 2023, the new dynamic that HOSI Salzburg has developed since its move to Franz-Josef Straße and a reckoning from which lessons are learned. [Read more]

Marinella Senatore (*1977) is a central figure in Italian contemporary art who uses various media to develop artistic strategies to set processes of social change in motion. Senatore is exhibiting at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg until 8.10.2023. And it will also initiate processes of change on 24.06 with a parade through Salzburg. As in 2022 in an action with the Centre Pompidou in Paris. [Read more]

Unken Pride 2023 is just around the corner. The Pride Parade in the countryside will take place in Unken on 15 July. Where else do you have the chance to experience a Pride with rural charm? After a year’s break, a continuation of Unken Pride is in the starting blocks. This time bigger, more colourful and always with traditional costume. [Read more]

“The question of women’s equality. It’s not a question when the same arguments keep coming up. We are not looking for answers. We want change.” said Linda Nochlin in 1971. The Museum der Moderne Salzburg is showing Queer* Fem* magaZINES. Magazines, zines and comics for the dissemination and visibility of feminist and queer art and artistic queer-feminist publishing. [Read more]

On Walpurgis Night, the night from 30 April to 1 May, the walk between two Walpurgis fires is supposed to purify and keep away epidemics. Evil spirits are exorcised and fertility is worshipped. This was the medieval tradition. In modern times, this became the Dance into May, for which Gigi LaPajette will revive her Rosa Stadl on 30 April. [Read more]

The HOSI Salzburg has finally arrived in its new premises in Franz-Josef-Straße and honoured this with a marathon of events. From Thursday to Saturday, the successful move was celebrated with all the people who are devoted to the HOSI Salzburg. And everyone came, from the mayor of the city of Salzburg to the volunteers, without whom nothing would work. [Read more]

2022 is going, 2023 is coming. After Corona, the queer scene in Salzburg is in a mood of change. After a very successful CSD 2022, the HOSI Salzburg moved to a new location. A number of queer events have already been fixed for 2023, from cinema to sex parties to ballet highlights. 2023 can come! [Read more]