In 2014 Conchita Wurst, the stage name of the Austrian recording artist and drag queen Thomas Neuwirth, won the Eurovision song contest with “Rise Like a Phoenix”. Following her victory, Wurst became an icon for Europe’s LGBT community and the Vienna Tourist Board decided to make a statement on gender equality and sexual orientation by installing “couples” red and green lights all around the city centre. Each light has either a mixed, all-female or all-male couple in both “stop” and “go” versions.