Vienna Gui for Gay Travelers ►Tips and Iterari

Contents:

• HOT FN: GAY SNAS
• THE 5 BEST VIENNA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS VIENNA
• WIEN GAY GUI & MAP 2023
• SPLISH SPLASH: WIENS HEIßTE GAY-BAORTE
• THE HIDN GAY LIV FALLY BEG UNVERED
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS VIENNA
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS VIENNA
• KAISERBRüNDL SNA, GAY SNA VIENNA
• GAY VIENNA
• URLB FüR JUNGE GAYS
• GAY WIEN · BYGUI
• GAILY TOUR VIENNA - GAY & LBIAN TOUR

HOT FN: GAY SNAS

At the top of the list, the Kaiserbründl Men's Sna is a permanent feature on Vienna's gay scene: the buildg the cy center is noted not only for s large wellns area and regular events. Thgs got pretty hot here even durg imperial tim: Archde Ludwig Viktor, known simply as "Luziwuzi" by the gay smart set at the turn of the 20th century, is alleged to have got too close to an officer here, earng him a slap the face.

THE 5 BEST VIENNA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS VIENNA

The Rabow Para is an important polil monstratn for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and queer people.

Lbian, gay, bi, straight, trans, cis, ter and queer people will march for acceptance, rpect and equal rights Atria, Europe and around the world.

Atria's pal don't have a sgle predomantly queer neighbourhood, but a lively LGBTQ scene wh some "gay only" and a great number of gay-iendly and mixed plac throughout town. Bookstore LöwenherzVis the gay and lbian book store Löwenherz, loted Vienna's 9th district, and browse through thoands of books, magaz, and DVDs.

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Pay a vis to the summer rince of one of the first and most important gays Atrian history: Prce Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736). The biggt Baroque church Vienna is named after another gay historil figure: Emperor Karl VI (1685-1740). "Franzl" shared his stud and bed wh the well-known homosexual librettist Johann Baptist Mayerhofer for more than two years.

SPLISH SPLASH: WIENS HEIßTE GAY-BAORTE

It is the largt multi-sport event Europe, unr the patronage of the EGLSF (European Gay & Lbian Sport Feratn). HOSI Vienna was found 1979, and is Atria's olst and most important lbian and gay anisatn. They support gay and lbians, pecially young on, durg their g-out procs, as well as s of discrimatn.

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Numero events are dited to the rights of lbian, gay, transgenr, bisexual, tersexual and many other people. Nohels, if you have never been to Kaiserbendl, is fely worth the experience jt to pretend that you are visg a gay bath hoe durg the time of the Emperor Franz Josef.

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The monthly party, perhaps the most inic there is, is aimed at lbians as well as gays, and offers changg aspects of electronic mic pl a ntrastg mil program on two floors. Circ is a huge gay spectacle that is held at irregular tervals (twice to four tim per year) the Arena Wien.

Internatnal top DJs and spectacular shows attract the party animals., the Kibbutz Klub is only held equently: anized by the "QueerHebrews", everyone is wele here – whether lbian, gay, transsexual, hetero, hipster, Jewish, non-Jewish, lol or immigrant. But when I heard people ravg about the show, wrten by Rsell T Davi, I was stck by how many of them admted to knowg ltle about the epimic – and the stctn wreaked among the gay muny. That’s bee, even today's much more acceptg society, the history of the gay and lbian muny is largely a fotten history.

For a long time, the mastream public didn't want to hear our Ca's The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle tells the story of a secretly gay postman searchg for a lost love om his youth (Cred: Headle Review)"I would venture to say that the public were disgted and outraged, " says thor Crystal Jeans.

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It's about a lonely, socially awkward and secretly gay postman livg a fictnal town the north of England who hs retirement, realisg he wants to turn his life around and fally be happy – but to do this, he needs to fd the love of his life, a man he hasn’t seen for nearly 50 years.

My novel is ridg on a wave of tert that dat back the UK to 2017 and the 50th anniversary of the begng of crimalisatn of homosexualy. That same year, the so-lled "Alan Turg law" offered pardons to 49, 000 Brish gay men who’d been nvicted of homosexual acts – followg a mpaign arguably bolstered by the greater awarens brought about by The Imatn Game, the h film that picted the nvictn and chemil stratn of the Enigma-breakg puter scientist.

Over on Instagram, The Aids Memorial shar photos and stori of people – predomantly gay men – who died of the disease, wrten by those who loved them. You’d not tch many queer al mers jottg down their memoirs – Crystal JeansHowever, 's fictn that’s very much drivg the phenomenon of brgg "lost" stori of gay life om the past to light.

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Over the last five years, a tr of Irish wrers have livered stunng gay-themed novels set predomantly perds of history that didn't wele them – John Boyne (The Heart’s Invisible Furi), Graham Norton (Home Stretch), and Sebastian Barry (the Costa Award-wng Days Whout End). In the theatre, Matthew Lopez's exploratn of gay male history The Inherance triumphed London before transferrg to New York, where opened the year after a well-received revival of Mart Crowley's semal 1968 play Boys the Band.

Most recently, the ter explod wh behd-the-scen photos of Harry Styl om the shoot of new film My Policeman, an adaptatn of Bethan Roberts's 2012 novel starrg the pop superstar as a closeted gay man the 1950s. However, as a way of explag the mystery surroundg why Harry left behd everythg he knew, Gale imaged a suatn which he was forced to leave as a rult of a gay affair beg exposed.

Crystal Jeans's latt novel is The Inverts, which tells the story of two bt iends – one a lbian, the other a gay man – who enter to a fake marriage the 1920s.

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This was another reason I wrote The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle; I wanted to tell the story of one ordary young gay man tryg to exprs his love for another at a time when this would not have been accepted. But I also wanted to ntrast this disturbg, sometim horrifyg picture wh what life n be like for a gay man wh today’s much more acceptg society the UK – and celebrate how much progrs we’ve ma. My spiratn was a seri of terviews I nducted wh olr gay men whilst I was Edor--Chief of Attu magaze, as part of our celebratn of the 50th anniversary of the start of crimalisatn.

Pop star Harry Styl is starrg new film My Policeman as a closeted gay officer the 1950s (Cred: Getty Imag)"What we see all through history is that people are nied their past as part of a way to ntrol them, " says Hornby. Whether you are here for a day or for an extend stay, why not be sightseeg wh the gay history of Vienna on one of our gay historic cy tours?

We start our first gay cy walk through Vienna the Park of Belvere Palace, the summer rince of one of the first and most important gays Atrian history: Prce Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736). From the garn of the Belvere wh s imprsive view of downtown Vienna we walk via Schwarzenbergplatz and the Rsian War Memorial to Karlsplatz where the biggt Baroque church Vienna (Karlskirche) mak reference to the next gay historil figure: Emperor Karl VI (1685–1740) himself. For more than two years he shared his stud and his bed wh the well-known homosexual librettist Johann Baptist Mayerhofer.

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BarRight across om Vienna’s olst gay club, the Why Not, the Cy Bar is the perfect startg pot for a long night. From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns!

Anyone who has fotten their vatn readg at home should make a trip to the gay and lbian bookstore Löwenherz. The ChickL bookstore the first district offers a fe assortment of femist and lbian lerature both German and 's biggt "Gay Liftyle Store" is loted the 5th district and is lled Gayt.

Apart om clothg and toys, also foc on art: There is a gallery the basement where gay artists prent their art. The Kaiserbründl Vienna is one of the most betiful gay snas the world is 'a mt for the ternatnal tourist, In addn to the origal elegant furnishg, the Kaiserbründl offers 1, 700 m² space for fun, relaxg and more, Includg 2 snas (1 b sna), a cisg steam bath, playroom, bs wh TV, relaxatn area, slgs, darkroom, prison wh g and glory-hol. Not only the pal of European mic, but also cradle of Gay emperors, generals and artists who turned Vienna to a special LGBT travel statn.

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Vienna has an amazg gay and lbian scene: om gay and queer fé to cktail bar, om lbian rtrant to leather place, om gay spas to dance club. Meet our Gay/Lbian Tour Gui for a private walkg tour of Vienna Gay and experience one of the most regal ci the world. Start your special tour wh our Gay/Lbian Gui the center of the cy at the worldwi famo Vienna State Opera, built by the uple of men archects Eduard van r Nüll and Augt Sird von Sirdsburg, partners bs and life.

Fally the tour ends the MQ – Mmsquarter, the former horse stabl of the urt and today the home of numero mms cludg the Leopold Mm wh s world famo llectn of f--siècle furnure and sign and patgs of Gtav Klimt, Egon Schiele or the gay artist Anton Kolig.

Let’s start you amazg Gay tour of Vienna together wh our Gay/Lbian Gui, om famo Karlsplatz wh the imposg Karlskirche, passg by the Technil Universy and reachg Kettenbrückengasse 6, the ath place of poser Franz Schubert, who died of Syphilis supposedly ed by the only sexual experience Schubert ever had wh a woman, although durg his life he ncentrated his sir on male partners.

GAILY TOUR VIENNA - GAY & LBIAN TOUR

Then ntue to the Naschmarkt, the center of today’s gay life, where you will taste some lol speciali om one of the many lol stands. Here, ont of the temple, the bronze sculpture “The Wner” was created by Josef Müllner and sted to be one of the “gay monuments” of the cy.

Enjoy an enlightened Vienna and an amazg walkg tour through Vienna’s gay & lbian bars and clubs to live on your sk the magic atmosphere and LGBT scene of the cy. Früher waren homosexuelle Kaiser, Kriegsherren und Komponisten und hte die große LGBT-Szene, die die Stadt so sehenswert machen. Bekannt als e r allerersten, expliz gay-iendly Hotels Österreichs ist die Pensn Wild Eure Unterkunft.