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| A new traffic light, showing a same-sex couple, in Vienna |
Vienna is preparing to give its pedestrian traffic lights a love life – by replacing the red and green men with couples.
And in a move intended to show the Austrian capital's tolerance and openness, the couples will come in three varieties: straight, gay and lesbian.
Hundreds of the signals around the city will be replaced with new lights showing various different couples hand in hand: a man and a woman, two men, or two women.
To complete the picture they will be adorned with romantic hearts.
The Ampelmännchen, or little traffic signal man, is something of an obssession in the German-speaking world.
Cities in Germany have installed lights featuring red and green women, in an effort to redress the gender imbalance of the traditional signals.
But Vienna has gone a step further, introducing a sexual orientation for the little red and green people. » | Justin Huggler, Berlin | Tuesday, May 12, 2015
