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Gay Pride News: Special stamp celebrates Austrian Gay Pride
By: Nigel Robinson
A quarter of a million stamps will be issued
A quarter of a million stamps will be issued
Austria issues world's first Gay Pride stamp.
To celebrate Vienna’s fifteenth Rainbow Parade on 3 July, the Austrian Post Office will issue a special commemorative stamp.
The Rainbow Parade is the Austrian capital’s annual Gay Pride celebration.
It is believed that this is the first time anywhere in the world that an official stamp has been released to commemorate a gay Pride event.
The stamp is one of sixty designs which the Austrian Post Office publishes each year, and was designed by graphic designer Christian Högl, who also works as a volunteer for the Homosexual Initiative (HOSI) in Vienna, who have organised the Rainbow Parade for the past eight years.
A quarter of a million stamps will be issued at a price of 55 cents each, the cost of posting a normal letter within Austria.
They will be on sale from 25 June at selected post offices in Austria.
On 3 July, after the Rainbow Parade, a special post office will be set up on the central Schwarzenbergplatz, to issue first-day covers.
“The Austrian Post is once again making philatelic history,” said Kurt Krickler of HOSI-Wien.
“We’re incredibly proud that Austria has created this world sensation, recognising the importance of the Rainbow Parade as one of the biggest and most important events against social exclusion and discrimination.”
The Regenbogenparade (Rainbow Parade) takes place in Vienna on 3 July.
For a list of gay Prides in mainland Europe visit Pride Life’s European Gay Prides page
For a list of UK gay Prides visit Pride Life’s UK Gay Prides Page
Read more about Vienna in Pride Life’s travel pages, and book your trip to Vienna Pride with one of Pride Life’s travel affiliates – a percentage of any profit made goes to selected gay charities.
