The blue youth distributed hundreds of posters with photos in clear poses in Graz on Sunday. Before the sold-out event, there were further protests, and the police were also on site to be on the safe side…
A frog who wants to be a ballet dancer. Impossible, a couple of swans are convinced. An encounter with a ballet teacher encourages him: Even if the frog does not correspond to the ideal of beauty of the swans, she supports his wish. The story that was read out on Sunday afternoon in the Green Party House is about children’s stories and perversions. Why is the courageous story so upsetting and why did the police have to show up? Because two men in women’s clothes read it to the children. It didn’t take more to unleash a wave of outrage in certain circles in Graz. Before the Saturday reading by the travesty artists Gloria Hole and Candy Licious at the Green party headquarters, it was hard to escape the media bickering. The Freedom Youth followed up on Sunday and hung up hundreds of posters throughout the city center. It features photos from Gloria Hole’s Instagram page in clear poses, “Protect your children from perversions,” reads the bottom. “Arch was spanned today!” We will not let such an event, which is rejected by a majority of Grazers, take place without comment,” explains city youth chairman Matthias Lehner left and started hate propaganda against me.” The Green councilor and co-organizer Anna Slama also points the posters “in the direction of hate speech.” Which is why the police would have removed them all before the reading began increased presence around the party headquarters. There, however, only a few passers-by protested with posters: “I am a Christian. Children should not be taught that there is a third gender. Children should decide for themselves, parents shouldn’t push them in the wrong direction at an early age just because it’s beautiful and colourful,” one woman described her point of view. The children didn’t seem to care much about the whole discussion: “What a beautiful princess,” she said happily a little girl who, like about 50 other children and adults at the sold-out reading, clung tensely to Gloria Hole’s made-up lips when she began to talk about the frog in “Schwanenteich”.
