LGBTQ+ Amsterdam – 14 Bt Gay Bars and Clubs for a Night Out

Contents:

• LGBTQ+ AMSTERDAM – THE 14 BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS
• GAY AND LBIAN NIGHTLIFE AMSTERDAM
• THE 'STRAIGHTIFITN' OF AMSTERDAM'S GAY STREET
• POPULAR GAY BAR AMSTERDAM BROUGHT BY VALY AND JE!LOTED "THE GAY STREET" OF AMSTERDAM, THE FAMO REGULIERSDWARSSTRAAT AT N.41.
• THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM
• GAY AMSTERDAM

LGBTQ+ AMSTERDAM – THE 14 BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS

It origally opened 1970, and although wasn’t the first gay bs the area, was the first one to be openly so, favourg large, open wdows to barred-up on. In the late 70s and to the 80s, the street then began to explo wh new gay bars and clubs, helpg to cement Amsterdam’s role as an ternatnal gay pal. Highlightg the broad cross-sectn of visors to the area, Realy is a bar that typilly ters to Surame and Antillean homosexuals, referrg to self as a ‘gay bar wh a tropil flavour’.

GAY AND LBIAN NIGHTLIFE AMSTERDAM

The Homomonument by the Wterkerk is a good optn for first port of ll. Next to the Homomonument is Pk Pot, Amsterdam's official gay and lbian rmatn ksk.

THE 'STRAIGHTIFITN' OF AMSTERDAM'S GAY STREET

Pk Pot provis rmatn about the Homomonument, as well as general rmatn on gay and lbian Amsterdam. If you haven’t found what you were lookg for at Vrolijk, try IHLIA, an ternatnal gay/lbian library, archive, rmatn and documentatn centre about homosexualy and sexual diversy the Amsterdam Public Library (OBA).

Durg Amsterdam Gay Pri and Kg’s Day, the bars this district are prime viewg platforms for everythg gog on around and on the water.

POPULAR GAY BAR AMSTERDAM BROUGHT BY VALY AND JE!LOTED "THE GAY STREET" OF AMSTERDAM, THE FAMO REGULIERSDWARSSTRAAT AT N.41.

As well as beg home to several gay-iendly hotels and bed & breakfasts, the street boasts Club Church, which hosts large-sle club nights, often themed, throughout the week. But this street was also home to the first gay & lbian bar the Netherlands! As you might have heard, Amsterdam is globally known as one of the gay pals this world.

Socially and culturally, is arguably more acceptable to be overtly gay Amsterdam. In turn, the gay culture Amsterdam is vibrant–reflected the muny and Reguliersdwarsstraat, monly known as Gay Street, is home to around eleven hotels, rtrants, bars, and f, monly referred to as Hore bs Dutch, which explicly ter to gay ctomers.

THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM

The Gay Street gaed s populary the 80s. As someone who go to this street to go clubbg, I have noticed that more and more straight people pick theGay Street as their night-out statn.

The owner did not want to be labelled as a gay club, but rather as a club that attracts “trendy youngsters, regardls of their sexual orientatn”.

At the end, some days are dited as a gay night, which is on Saturdays, and Thursdays are for straight stunts.

GAY AMSTERDAM

In this article, I aim to explore the perspectiv and opns of people on the ‘(non-)straightifitn’ of the Reguliersdwarsstraat and what do this means for the future of the street otherwise known as the Gay Street.

For me personally, I prefer gog out the Gay Street bee the mic sus my taste better than Amsterdam’s variety of techno clubs, and more importantly, I feel safer. I asked a uple of my straight female iends who equent the Gay Street as their night-out statn for their reasons.

The purpose of the spac is to give gay people a place where they feel the eedom to be themselv, away om a society where they will always be the ‘sexual diversy’, but not the normal. One iend quoted the book Life isn't Bary: “LGBTQ+ people often bee ed to havg to e out repeatedly, to beg asked tsive qutns about their bodi and sex liv, and beg treated as an object for people (the weird one the office, or the gay bt iend, for example). People om abroad vis this street to specifilly see what the ‘gay life’ is like Amsterdam.