A Pride Month event organised by Vienna’s publicly funded children’s information service has sparked political controversy in Austria, with the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) accusing the city council of promoting gender ideology to children as young as three.
The event, titled “Pride feiern mit Holli” (Celebrate Pride with Holli), is scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 13th, at the WIENXTRA Children’s Information Centre in inner city Vienna.
According to the programme, families will be invited to create rainbow paper flags before joining spectators at the city’s annual Rainbow Parade. The activity is open to children aged three and above.
Organisers describe the initiative as an age-appropriate creative activity designed to “promote tolerance, inclusion, and awareness of different life experiences.” Educational materials accompanying the event explain concepts such as diversity, inclusion, and queer identities.
The programme has drawn strong criticism from the FPÖ, which has accused the Social Democrat-led city council and its coalition partner, the liberal NEOS, of pursuing a “queer and transgender agenda.”
FPÖ’s parliamentary group leader in the Viennese council, Maximilian Krauss, described the programme as a form of “early sexualisation.” He also criticised the use of public funding for such activities.
The fact that the ideologues of the Red-Pink coalition now want to target even three-year-olds with their queer and transgender agenda marks a new low in social policy.
Children of this age need a carefree childhood, not ideological experiments.
The FPÖ has announced plans to launch a formal inquiry regarding the programme and its funding.
The dispute reflects the perverted attitude of Western Europe’s leftist-liberal elites towards LGBT issues, with gender identity and sexuality increasingly being introduced to small children.
The European Union’s top court recently ruled that Hungary’s 2021 child protection law—which restricts the promotion of homosexuality and gender ideology to minors—violates EU law, and that Hungary’s measures were “contrary to the very identity of the Union.”
As Jonathon Van Maren recently wrote in his commentary for europeanconservative.com:
The ruling emphasizes the ‘values’ of the New Europe. Just fifty years ago, no civilized country would have accepted that children had a human right to consume LGBT content, or that LGBT activists had a human right to expose themselves in public or act out weird sexual fetishes in the streets.
