Tag Archives: Austria

The Austrian parliament approved a civil unions bill today, bringing the number of EU member nations with such a law to ten. The bill, slated to become law Jan. 1., will give same-sex couples a series of rights enjoyed by their heterosexual counterparts, including access to a pension if one partner dies and alimony in the event of a split. …

Austria has passed a comprehensive civil unions law, but part of the compromise with the country’s right wing includes a provision that gays cannot hold ceremonies at registry offices. The compromise, achieved after weeks of wrangling between the ruling Social Democrats and their conservative coalition partner in government, will give gay couples equal rights to heterosexuals with regards to pensions …

Edelweiss, Bring Me Edelweiss, 1988. Following the step-by-step instructions on how to create a pop smash as laid out in the KLF’s book, The Manual, three Austrian men teamed up with vocalist Maria Mathis to make Bring Me Edelweiss, a manic combination of fiddles, accordions, rapping, pop samples, ABBA and Indeep lyrics, and most notably, yodeling. Ruck. Sack. RUCKSACK. The …

Wow. The dead Austrian gay Nazi/fascist story gets weirder. How is THAT possible? Conservative Austria was in a state of shock today after the male successor to Jörg Haider admitted to having a longstanding “special relationship” with the far right leader who died dramatically in a high speed car crash earlier this month. Stefan Petzner – the 27-year-old who recently …

Fascist Austrian leader Joerg Haider was drinking in a gay bar before he died Saturday in a single-car drunk driving accident. The former leader of the far right in Austria was drinking in a gay bar the night he died, it has emerged. Joerg Haider had never been open about his homosexuality, but his habit of surrounding himself with handsome …