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• GAY CAPAL OF EUROPE
• THE NETHERLANDS TOP 10 GAY IENDLY STATNS
• NETHERLANDS GAYITSRUCKAPRODUCED BYITSRUCKA & RUCKA RUCKA ALI1 VIEWER3 CONTRIBUTORSNETHERLANDS GAY LYRICSGERMANY'S A PLACE WHERE GAYNS LIVEVERYONE ENGLAND'S TO KIDSEVERYONE YOU MEET EUROPE IS STUPIDIT'S GOOD SH*TNOBODY RPECTS THE FRENCHNO ONE EVEN KNOWS WHAT THE WELSH ISNO ONE EVER GO TO WAL EIT SUCKSWE JT FISHED, FISHED, ALL THE F**K'FNISH OFFAND TAKE ALL OF THEIR FISH WH I DON'T LIKE THEN VERY MUCHAT LEAST THEY'RE NOT THE SWISS, SWISSALL SO F**K RICH, RICHGO TO WAR YOU BI**H, BI**HDON'T KNOW MUCH BUT I KNOW THISTHE NETHERLANDS' GAYBUT NOT AS MUCH AS SWEN IS AND NORWAYWHO'S NOT AS GAY AS THE DANLUXEMBOURG SOUNDS LIKE IS SOMEONE'S NAMEWHO'S VERY GAYTHE MEN ICELAND ARE GETTG B**EDEVERY DAYCSE THEY LOVE LETTG MEN *** THEIR FACEYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKETHEY DO EVERY DAYNOTHG IS GOOD ABOUT BELASEVERYONE IS GEIA'S TO DUSWHAT'S THE BT PLACE TO RECEIVE N**?IT'S THE EUCROATIANS ARE F**K DUMBTHE ASIANS TOOK OVER BELGIUMNO ONE KNOWS ABOUT KOSOVOWHY THEY MAD?I DON'T KNOWCYPS IS SH*TAND SO IS MONAWHY DON'T MONTENEGROCHANGE THEIR NAME 'S SO RACISTAND THE POLISH ARE GIMPS, GIMPSIRISH ARE ALL CHIMPS, CHIMPSATRIANS THROW SHRIMPS, SHRIMPSON THE BARBIEI JT KNOWTHE NETHERLANDS GAYBUT NOT AS MUCH AS HOLLAND IS EVERY DAYTHEY DO WHATEVER IS GAYLATVIA'S EVEN GAYER THAN IS UKRAEBEE SLOVENIA'S GAYOR WAS SLOVAKIAWHO REALLY KNOWSBULGARIA'S GAYBOSNIA AND HERZEA HAVE AIDSSO DO ALBASPORTUGAL ISN'T TO GIRLSEVERYONE HUNGARY IS HUNGRY FOR A SET OF BALLSKAZAKHSTAN IS FULL OF GAY KAZAKHSLICHTENSTE SOUNDS LIKE A JEWISH GUYTHAT REALLY LOV C**KSAND UP TURKEYTHEY'RE F**K ARMENIAWH THE HELP OF GREECEGREECE IS GAYER THAN THE AVERAGE ESTONIAND ITALY IS LIKE BULGARIABUT GAYER THAN THE SAN MARAZERBAIJAN FDS GAY THGS REALLY FUNMOLDOVA ALWAYS B**DS OVER FOR THE MALTANISBUT NONE OF THE ARE AS GAY AS VATIN CYGAYCZECH REPUBLIC IS GAYER THAN LHUANIAWHICH IS GAYER THAN SPATHE MONIKER FOR MONA IS"WE'RE GAY"ANDORRA IS GAYROMANIA'S GAY BUT MACEDONIAIS GAYER THAN THEYF**K RSIA IS GAY THAN ALL THOSE PLACE(S)IT'S FULL OF APEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTTHIS SONG B IS UNREVIEWEDGENI ANNOTATN1 NTRIBUTORA PARODY OF IMAGE DRAGONS' “WHATEVER TAK” AND SEEMS TO BE A SONG OF AMERI MOCKG LGBT+ RIGHTS EUROPE.EXPAND SHAREASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO PRODUCED “NETHERLANDS GAY” BY ITSRUCKA?WHO WROTE “NETHERLANDS GAY” BY ITSRUCKA?CREDSPRODUCED BYITSRUCKA & RUCKA RUCKA ALIWRTEN BYITSRUCKA & RUCKA RUCKA ALITAGSPOPEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• "NETHERLANDS GAY" LYRICS

GAY CAPAL OF EUROPE

Throughout the entire center of Amsterdam you will fd gay bs and stutns.

Gay and transgenr visors do not have to look for hotels marked wh pk or rabow flags. The genue tolerance for homosexuals n be noticed all over the cy. Whether you want to dance wh the betiful people around you, plan to drk cktails all night a terrific bar, or want to spent a night a bar wh iends: the gay and lbian scene of Amsterdam is unprecented.

Everywhere there's somethg to see and do Amsterdam, but most of the gay f, bars and stor are the center of the cy, four popular districts: Amstel, Kerkstraat, Reguliersdwarsstraat, Zeedijk and Warmostraat. The gay and lbian scene around the Amstel (cludg Rembrandtple and Halvemaansteeg) has a more tradnal character. Durg Kg's Day and the Amsterdam Gay Pri, ftivals ept spontaneoly where Amsterdam's entire gay and lbians n have a great time.

THE NETHERLANDS TOP 10 GAY IENDLY STATNS

The Kerkstraat is a relatively new addn to Amsterdam's gay and lbian scene. Reguliersdwarsstraat is one of the most important streets for gays and lbians when to eatg, drkg and partyg.

This street is **the** pk street of Amsterdam wh new, trendy gay bars and clubs which fely marked Amsterdam as the ternatnal 'Gay Capal'.

But the Zeedijk was also the place 1927 which opened the first gay and lbian bar of the Netherlands: 'Cafe 't Mandje' is still a very popular meetg pot, even the terr is well worth seeg.

NETHERLANDS GAYITSRUCKAPRODUCED BYITSRUCKA & RUCKA RUCKA ALI1 VIEWER3 CONTRIBUTORSNETHERLANDS GAY LYRICSGERMANY'S A PLACE WHERE GAYNS LIVEVERYONE ENGLAND'S TO KIDSEVERYONE YOU MEET EUROPE IS STUPIDIT'S GOOD SH*TNOBODY RPECTS THE FRENCHNO ONE EVEN KNOWS WHAT THE WELSH ISNO ONE EVER GO TO WAL EIT SUCKSWE JT FISHED, FISHED, ALL THE F**K'FNISH OFFAND TAKE ALL OF THEIR FISH WH I DON'T LIKE THEN VERY MUCHAT LEAST THEY'RE NOT THE SWISS, SWISSALL SO F**K RICH, RICHGO TO WAR YOU BI**H, BI**HDON'T KNOW MUCH BUT I KNOW THISTHE NETHERLANDS' GAYBUT NOT AS MUCH AS SWEN IS AND NORWAYWHO'S NOT AS GAY AS THE DANLUXEMBOURG SOUNDS LIKE IS SOMEONE'S NAMEWHO'S VERY GAYTHE MEN ICELAND ARE GETTG B**EDEVERY DAYCSE THEY LOVE LETTG MEN *** THEIR FACEYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKETHEY DO EVERY DAYNOTHG IS GOOD ABOUT BELASEVERYONE IS GEIA'S TO DUSWHAT'S THE BT PLACE TO RECEIVE N**?IT'S THE EUCROATIANS ARE F**K DUMBTHE ASIANS TOOK OVER BELGIUMNO ONE KNOWS ABOUT KOSOVOWHY THEY MAD?I DON'T KNOWCYPS IS SH*TAND SO IS MONAWHY DON'T MONTENEGROCHANGE THEIR NAME 'S SO RACISTAND THE POLISH ARE GIMPS, GIMPSIRISH ARE ALL CHIMPS, CHIMPSATRIANS THROW SHRIMPS, SHRIMPSON THE BARBIEI JT KNOWTHE NETHERLANDS GAYBUT NOT AS MUCH AS HOLLAND IS EVERY DAYTHEY DO WHATEVER IS GAYLATVIA'S EVEN GAYER THAN IS UKRAEBEE SLOVENIA'S GAYOR WAS SLOVAKIAWHO REALLY KNOWSBULGARIA'S GAYBOSNIA AND HERZEA HAVE AIDSSO DO ALBASPORTUGAL ISN'T TO GIRLSEVERYONE HUNGARY IS HUNGRY FOR A SET OF BALLSKAZAKHSTAN IS FULL OF GAY KAZAKHSLICHTENSTE SOUNDS LIKE A JEWISH GUYTHAT REALLY LOV C**KSAND UP TURKEYTHEY'RE F**K ARMENIAWH THE HELP OF GREECEGREECE IS GAYER THAN THE AVERAGE ESTONIAND ITALY IS LIKE BULGARIABUT GAYER THAN THE SAN MARAZERBAIJAN FDS GAY THGS REALLY FUNMOLDOVA ALWAYS B**DS OVER FOR THE MALTANISBUT NONE OF THE ARE AS GAY AS VATIN CYGAYCZECH REPUBLIC IS GAYER THAN LHUANIAWHICH IS GAYER THAN SPATHE MONIKER FOR MONA IS"WE'RE GAY"ANDORRA IS GAYROMANIA'S GAY BUT MACEDONIAIS GAYER THAN THEYF**K RSIA IS GAY THAN ALL THOSE PLACE(S)IT'S FULL OF APEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTTHIS SONG B IS UNREVIEWEDGENI ANNOTATN1 NTRIBUTORA PARODY OF IMAGE DRAGONS' “WHATEVER TAK” AND SEEMS TO BE A SONG OF AMERI MOCKG LGBT+ RIGHTS EUROPE.EXPAND SHAREASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO PRODUCED “NETHERLANDS GAY” BY ITSRUCKA?WHO WROTE “NETHERLANDS GAY” BY ITSRUCKA?CREDSPRODUCED BYITSRUCKA & RUCKA RUCKA ALIWRTEN BYITSRUCKA & RUCKA RUCKA ALITAGSPOPEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

Next to the Gay monument is Pk Pot, the official rmatn pot of Amsterdam for gay, lbian om home and abroad. There is virtually no better and safer cy for homosexually oriented people than Amsterdam.

It is therefore not surprisg that Amsterdam was already one of the most tolerant cy for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people the 19th century. The rult is that Amsterdam is still seen as the 'Gay Capal of Europe' today, where openns and tolerance are central.

Gay Monument. The Amsterdam Gay Monument was unveiled 1987 and was the first monument of s kd the world.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

It memorat the gay men and lbians who were persecuted and murred durg World War II. It is still the largt monument the world, dited to the memoratn of homosexualy. Homosexualy was removed om the Dutch crimal 1811.

"NETHERLANDS GAY" LYRICS

First 'regnized' bar for gays and lbians opened 1927.

One of the first anizatns regardg gay rights, the COC, was found Amsterdam 1946.