EDITORIAL.- We have found the surprising initiative that the authorities of the Vienna City Council have had in the face of the gala of Eurovision to be held next May 23, whose winner in the last edition was the singer Conchita Wurst. As of this week, fifty traffic lights of the Austrian capital will incorporate homosexual couples in the typical green and red figures that mark the possibility of crossing. Specifically appear couples of two women and two men with hearts. The idea, as they have declared members of the municipal team is to give an image of tolerance and open-mindedness of the city and, in the process, get drivers and pedestrians to pay more attention to traffic signals and thereby improve road safety. The campaign also coincides with the main act that takes place in Europe in support of those affected by AIDS, the Life Ball, which will be held in the same Vienna on Saturday 16 of May.
And is that this weekend we celebrate the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia commemorating the elimination of homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses by the World Health Organization (WHO). Also this year we do it with a round figure: 25 years The recognition that having a sexual option other than heterosexuality was not equivalent to being sick was achieved. The outstanding debt is that transsexuality is also removed from that list and gender dysphoria is no longer considered a mental disorder.
More and more voices are joining the unanimous cry of condemnation of any form of discrimination and rejection of aggression and violence against members of the LGTBI collective, but the real achievement is progress. We can not lower our guard and should continue to report aggressions with tools such as "Law against homophobia" or institutions such as the "Observatory against homophobia". But what really contributes to improving the lives of gays, lesbians, transsexuals and bisexuals, is the increase in their public presence in the media and social life, the improvement of laws in all countries of the world and the normalization of the homosexual factor in education, health and society in general. Those are the factors that will make one day May 17 stop having a connotation of struggle to become merely commemorative in a better world.
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