Salzburg has now its own regional SoHo Organization

Salzburg has a social democratic advocacy for lesbian, gay and transgender! The Salzburg SoHo (social democracy and homosexuality) was yesterday officially lifted in the national office of the Salzburg SPÖ was launched. One of the well-wishers was Salzburg's Governor-Chairman David Brenner: "The issue of equal rights is very essential to the social-democratic understanding. So I welcome very much that now the SoHo Salzburg is founded. Even in Salzburg, it needs a strong progressive advocacy for lesbian, gay and transgender people, which campaigns consistently for their equality. This concerns the legal framework as well as for tolerance and mutual respect. The drop of outdated prejudices and the further adaptation of the social circumstances of the realities of the 21st Century may in any case be a mere lip service, but must be lived day by day. Well that's the SoHo and works. "

Regional Chairman, Soho Salzburg George Djundja is: "The SoHo Salzburg will work in the Salzburg political landscape awareness of equal opportunities and equal rights for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender persons. It can not be that in this day and age, in our country there is still discrimination based on sexual orientation - whether in the private environment or even in the absence of laws. I
would like to thank my management team and the Salzburg SPÖ that is finally represented in our state has SoHo, so that together we can fight for equality. For, as already stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights "!

Uwe Höfferer, Salzburg SPÖ state manager expected, through the establishment of the SoHo Salzburg further steps on the road to equality. The equality of registered partnership and marriage, such as in naming rights and the collective agreements and the possibility of adoption of children of lesbians and gays are here to be mentioned as further steps. "In addition, the partnering take place anywhere in the same room as the weddings and not in the back room," said Höfferer.

Peter Traschkowitsch, national chairman of the SoHo (social democracy and homosexuality), welcomes the new SoHo national organization as a further important step towards equality and equity, "With the establishment of the SoHo Salzburg are the Social Democratic Lesbian, Gay and Transgender again become stronger in the fight against prejudice and intolerance. I wish George Djundja, the national chairman of the SoHo Salzburg, and his comrades in arms the best. At the Salzburg SPÖ, in particular Governor Gabi Burgstaller, with David Brenner and Uwe Höfferer I thank sincerely for their active support for the creation of the SoHo Salzburg. "

Source: SoHo