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News (World)
Dutch constitution will be amended to ban LGBTQ+ discrimination
“You can rightly call this day historic!”
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Life
Efteling Amusement Park in the Netherlands is everything Disney used to be
Efteling is still, well, fun.
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LGBTQ History
Meet the Dutch gay man who defied the Nazis & saved thousands of lives
Before his execution in July 1943 at the hands of the Nazi party, Willem Arondeus asked his lawyer to spread a message after he was gone. “Let it be known,” he said. “Homosexuals are not cowards.”
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Attack on brave 14-year-old girl spawns international outcry
“Are you a boy or a girl?” her attacker yelled. Frédérique replied, “I am who I am and you can be who you want to be.”
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Lesbian couple beaten in the street after they refused to let straight men ‘join’ them
It happened during Pride weekend.
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A man cut off his gay son’s earlobe to mark him as an ‘abomination’
“The worst thing is they didn’t take me to hospital or give me medication. They just locked me inside a room as I tried to stop the bleeding.”
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Bias Watch
Dozens of countries just banned America’s ‘kill the gays’ hate preacher from entering
He called Pulse victims “a bunch of disgusting perverts and pedophiles” and encouraged his congregants to kill all gay people, calling it a “cure for AIDS.”
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News (World)
The happiest countries in the world protect their LGBTQ citizens from discrimination
Nine out of the top ten happiest countries in the world have laws that protect their LGBTQ residents.
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News (World)
This teen disappeared after a Grindr hook-up. His body was found 9 days later.
His friends and family want to know, why did it take so long for police to put out a missing child report?
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News (World)
Hundreds march in Amsterdam to support beaten gay couple
“I thought we were finished with it, that we had achieved it. But that is not the case, and that is very sad. So I’m going back onto the barricades.”
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News (World)
Netherlands voters reject anti-Islam populist who claimed to be pro-LGBTQ
Like Donald Trump, Geert Wilders had campaigned on an anti-Muslim platform promising to protect the Dutch LGBTQ community from Islamic terrorists.
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News (World)
Dutch political party champions inclusion with diverse, transgender candidates
She wants Dutch citizens to feel “safe and protected by their government and has the space to be whoever he or she — and everything and everyone in-between — wants to be.”
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News (World)
Dutch authorities will prosecute men for distributing religious cult pamphlet
The men who distributed pamphlets with false and offensive claims about gay people are being prosecuted for inciting discrimination.
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News (World)
Belgium and the Netherlands join forces to fight Trump’s anti-woman agenda
The two countries are backing the creation of an international fund to finance access to birth control, abortion and sex education for women.
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News (World)
Trial starts for Dutchman accused of cyberbullying girls & gay men
The man would pretend to be an 18-year-old boy, persuade victims to strip in front of their webcams, and then use the images to blackmail them.
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News (World)
Aruba Parliament approves civil unions for same-sex couples
Same-sex couples now have the right to register their unions and receive benefits granted to married people on the Dutch Caribbean island.
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News (World)
Across Europe, gay migrants face abuse in asylum shelters
Many migrants are coming from conservative Muslim countries where homosexuality is taboo into European societies that are more open to it.
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Life
Dutch brass band may play ‘YMCA’ at Sochi to show its support for gay rights
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch brass band that always performs at Olympic speed skating ovals is considering playing a popular gay song — “Y.M.C.A.” — at the Sochi Winter Olympics to show its support for gay rights.
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News (World)
Netherlands adopts landmark gender identity law, bans forced sterilization
THE HAUGE, Netherlands — The Netherlands has adopted landmark legislation banning forced sterilization and allowing transgender people to change their identity on official documents with the requirement of gender reassignment surgery.
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News (World)
Dutch diplomat beaten in Moscow, attackers leave ‘LGBT’ scrawled on mirror
MOSCOW — A Dutch diplomat was beaten up by two unidentified men who barged into his apartment in central Moscow, leaving behind a heart and the acronym “LGBT” scrawled on a mirror in lipstick.