Marching Gaily is a 5 minute film about a very peculiar day in Vienna on 19th June 1999. Two parades on the same street took place simultaneously, one was a policeman’s march, the other a gay pride march. One’s mind boggled at how this could have happened, but the administration’s solution was for the gays to march clockwise, and the police officers anticlockwise!

Both groups of marchers were demonstrating pride in themselves

Reviewer Joe Henderson-Tang

The police officers had their brass bands, motorbikes and even patrol boats on carriages, and of course looked very macho in their militaristic, leather uniforms, or did I get confused with the leather queens? The marchers on the gay pride march consisted of the usual drag queens, muscle marys, and men and women with various bits of their anatomy on display.

Despite the antithesis, the similarities were quite striking in that both groups of marchers were demonstrating pride in themselves and were, dare I say it, having fun.