Oslo shootg near gay bar vtigated as terrorism, as Pri para is nceled | CNN

Contents:

• DUTCH ISLAMIST CELL TARGETED GAY PRI PARA, COURT HEARS
• DUTCH LGBTQ RIGHTS GROUP APPALLED AT OSLO GAY CLUB SHOOTG
• OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED
• NORWAY POLICE SEEK LAY TO PRI EVENTS AFTER GAY BAR SHOOTG
• GAY PRI EVENTS NETHERLANDS

DUTCH ISLAMIST CELL TARGETED GAY PRI PARA, COURT HEARS

A Dutch Islamist terror cell planned an attack on Amsterdam's famo Gay Pri para and other major targets, a urt heard Friday. The Netherlands was the first untry the world to legalise gay marriage, 2001, and Amsterdam is home to the annual para, attractg tens-of-thoands of revellers every year.

First we wanted to jo ary para, but then a gay para Augt, " the email read. On June 28, 1969, members of the LGBTQ+ muny rted rponse to a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York. The march paved the way for paras fightg for gay liberatn and eedom across the US, and the rt of the Saturday the NetherlandsHowever, the Netherlands, 's a ltle different.

Here, the Stonewall rts are memorated by what is known as Pk were gay rights monstratns 1969 and 1970 the Netherlands, but at the time, the Dutch gay rights anisatn COC didn’t want to anise an official Gay Pri like many ci the US had.

DUTCH LGBTQ RIGHTS GROUP APPALLED AT OSLO GAY CLUB SHOOTG

Instead, the COC argued that gay people were normal people, and so didn’t see the need for monstratns.

OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED

The anisatn changed s pri policy the late 1970s though, and hosted s first Gay Liberatn and Solidary Day, or Gay Pri Day, Amsterdam on June 25, 1977. This year, the event was hosted by Go, and 2024 'll take place history of Pri AmsterdamAs time passed, members of the LGBTQ+ muny felt that Amsterdam’s stat as a trailblazg gay cy was startg to slip, so they wanted to do somethg about .

NORWAY POLICE SEEK LAY TO PRI EVENTS AFTER GAY BAR SHOOTG

While Pri Amsterdam may not serve the same purpose of memoratg the Stonewall rts as other Pri events do, the sheer sle of the celebratns (and the fact that the event is always hosted the Dutch pal) has rulted Pri Amsterdam beg the ma Dutch Gay Pri week the first week of Augt, parti pop up all across the cy, wh the Reguliersdwarsstraat right at the centre of all. Pri Amsterdam also recently troduced a Pri Walk to monstrate anti-gay vlence both lolly and ternatnally. Back then, there were a number of boats participatg, cludg on manned and rated by popular gay entertament venu on the Reguliersdwarsstraat.

Way back 1811, homosexualy was crimalised Amsterdam unr Napoleonic law.

Then, around 100 years later, one of the world’s first openly gay bars, The Empire, opened the Dutch pal. Discrimatn agast members of the LGBTQ+ muny has also been illegal sce Homomonument Amsterdam, unveiled 1987, was the first monument the world to pay tribute to the many gay and lbian people who lost their liv durg the Send World War, and memorat all who are opprsed or prosecuted bee of their sexualy. The COC is shocked by the shootg the Norwegian pal Oslo, which two visors to a gay nightclub were killed.

GAY PRI EVENTS NETHERLANDS

Oslo’s annual Pri para was nceled on Saturday followg a adly shootg at a gay bar that Norwegian police are vtigatg as a possible terrorist attack. Two people were killed and eight others taken to hospal after the shootg near the London Pub, which scrib self on s webse as “the largt gay and lbian venue Oslo.

Norwegian police said on Monday all Pri events across the untry should be layed, cg secury ncerns after a adly weekend rampage by a gunman at a gay bar had ially approved a planned gatherg outsi Oslo Town Hall on Monday by the cy’s LGBTQ muny to honor the victims of the they later advised anizers to ncel the event, which was expected to draw a large gatherg. From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns!