Tag: austria

First gay athlete wins medal at Sochi Olympics

Austria’s Daniela Iraschko-Stolz says she hopes to create positive conversation surrounding the outrage over the Russia Winter Olympics Austria’s Daniela Iraschko-Stolz became the first openly gay athlete to medal at Russia’s Winter Games yesterday (11 February). She came second in the first ever women’s ski jump competition at the Olympics. Iraschko-Stolz actually jumped the furthest… Read more »

European Human Rights court finds Austria’s gay second-parent adoption ban discriminatory

The court this week that it was unconstitutional for Austria to allow unmarried straight couples to adopt and not extend the same rights to same-sex couples. The European Court for Human Rights this week ruled in favour of an unnamed Austrian lesbian couple seeking to have a second-parent adoption for their son who was born… Read more »