The Netherlands

“You can rightly call this day historic!”

Efteling is still, well, fun.

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.”

“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.”

It happened during Pride weekend.

“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.”

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.”

Nine out of the top ten happiest countries in the world have laws that protect their LGBTQ residents.

His friends and family want to know, why did it take so long for police to put out a missing child report?

“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.”

Like Donald Trump, Geert Wilders had campaigned on an anti-Muslim platform promising to protect the Dutch LGBTQ community from Islamic terrorists.

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.”

The men who distributed pamphlets with false and offensive claims about gay people are being prosecuted for inciting discrimination.

The two countries are backing the creation of an international fund to finance access to birth control, abortion and sex education for women.

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.

Same-sex couples now have the right to register their unions and receive benefits granted to married people on the Dutch Caribbean island.

Many migrants are coming from conservative Muslim countries where homosexuality is taboo into European societies that are more open to it.

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.

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.

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.