HOSI Linz is the LGBT association for Upper Austria, and it runs the queer centre on Schillerstraße a few minutes from the main station. Its own queer bar, forty nine, occupies the front of the same building.
Behind the bar the centre holds a community room, a lending library and a set of regular groups: a book club, a group for younger people, a women's night, a rainbow Stammtisch and a monthly social. Counselling is done by trained people from the community rather than by an outside service, there is dedicated work with queer refugees, and the association sends volunteers into schools to run workshops. It produces a podcast and sells rainbow merchandise, online and over the bar counter.
The association also organises Linz Pride, which brings a street parade, an open-air concert and a Pride night to the city each summer. For anyone visiting Upper Austria it is the most direct place to ask what is actually on.
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