Rosa Lila Villa
Rosa Lila Villa is an Austrian LGBT center situated in the Linke Wienzeile Buildings neighbourhood of Vienna. It is designed as a housing project, restaurant, event and counseling venue for LGBT people in Austria.
History
[edit]The initiative to found the Villa comes from the squatter scene of the late 1970s and 80s and from the early lesbian and gay movement.[1] The house, which was scheduled for demolition, was squatted in 1982. After long negotiations with the owner and the deputy mayor of Vienna Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, who supported the project, a contract was signed in 1984 for a 30-year lease,[1] even though homosexuality was still illegal in the country.[2]
The building was renovated with one part dedicated to a center for counseling homosexual and transgender people, and one part to communal apartments and catering.[3] The organization behind the Rosa Lila Villa worked on LGBT rights in Austria, among other things by working on education about HIV/AIDS.[4]
In 2016, the organisation opened a spin-off in the house that focused on LGBTIQ refugees, named Queer Base.[5] On the same year, the house was vandalized with a graffiti that said "Kill gays" (Tötet Schwule).[5] In 2017, queer Base received the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Services to Human Rights and the Alexander Friedmann Prize.[6][7]
In 2019, the restaurant was renamed to Villa Vida. The Villa is divided between the Lila Tip for lesbian counseling and the Türkis Rosa Tippp for transgender, gay and queer counseling.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Marty Huber: 25 Jahre andersrum. Die Rosa Lila Villa an der Linken Wienzeile 102, in: Kulturrisse, 02/2007
- ^ "Rechtskomitee Lambda". Retrieved 2021-02-23.
- ^ a b "RosaLilaVilla | bagru thewi". 2011-11-02. Archived from the original on 2011-11-02. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
- ^ "25 Jahre andersrum. Die Rosa Lila Villa an der Linken Wienzeile 102". IG Kultur (in German). Retrieved 2022-08-04.
- ^ a b ""Rosa Lila Villa" startet Flüchtlingsprojekt" (in German). Kurier. 2014-09-29. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
- ^ "Bruno Kreisky Menschenrechtspreis". Retrieved 2021-02-21.
- ^ "Prize Winners | Alexander Friedmann Foundation Prize". Archived from the original on 2021-05-12. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
Further reading
[edit]- Linda Jannach (2015), Entstehungsgeschichte(n) des lesbisch-schwulen Hausprojektes Rosa Lila Villa in Wien. Räumliche Aneignungspraktiken und Widerstand: Master's Thesis (in German), Vienna: University of Vienna
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