Rosa Lila Villa

Rosa Lila Villa is an Austrian LGBT center situated in the Linke Wienzeile Buildings neighbourhood of Vienna.

It is designed as a housing project, restaurant, event and counseling venue for LGBT people in Austria.

The initiative to found the Villa comes from the squatter scene of the late 1970s and 80s and from the early lesbian and gay movement.

After long negotiations with the owner and the deputy mayor of Vienna Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, who supported the project, a contract was signed in 1984 for a 30-year lease,[1] even though homosexuality was still illegal in the country.

[4] In 2016, the organisation opened a spin-off in the house that focused on LGBTIQ refugees, named Queer Base.