THE 10 BEST The Netherlands Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

Contents:

• 8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY
• HOW AMSTERDAM CEASED TO BE GAY HEAVEN
• GAY CAPAL OF EUROPE
• THE 10 BEST THE NETHERLANDS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS THE NETHERLANDS
• GAY AMSTERDAM · CY GUI
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS AMSTERDAM
• 'FOOTBALL FOR ALL': DUTCH STAND UP FOR GAY PLAYERS' RIGHTS
• NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA

8 MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS WHO DARED TO COME OUT AS GAY

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’.

HOW AMSTERDAM CEASED TO BE GAY HEAVEN

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. 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.

GAY CAPAL OF EUROPE

But tak guts to e out and reveal one’s genr as gay, which is ually an act of urage a world that is not ndned to accept every genr. Even though has already been three s sce Jt Fashanu first publicly me out as gay, there are only a few of them revealg . The primary reason behd many gay footballers not revealg their sexualy publicly is fear of homophobia on and off the pch.

So, many profsnal leagu, teams, and players are raisg their voic to fight back agast homophobia so that gay footballers don’t face backlash while g out.

In 2020, durg the San Diego Loyal match agast Phoneix Risg FC, Mart released a story of homophobic sults directed toward him.

THE 10 BEST THE NETHERLANDS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS THE NETHERLANDS

Likewise, The Jt Fashanu All-stars football special event started Brighton to honor him and promote homosexualy football. Therefore, a suable environment should be created through tn as a drivg factor, so gay footballers don’t feel prsured to reveal their sexualy.

Last month, preparatn for an article about the growg gay backlash agast trans iology, I spoke wh Bev Jackson, the -founr of LGB Alliance, a gay and lbian activist group that oppos the hijackg of the gay rights movement by transfolk. Bev told me about her background — fifty years Brish gay activism, a rint of Amsterdam for four s — and asked me about me.

GAY AMSTERDAM · CY GUI

This was, moreover, a woman who’d experienced Amsterdam durg that brief goln era when was gay heaven — an era when, among other thgs, was one of the few plac on earth where gays uld walk down the streets hand--hand whout worryg about beg pummeled to bs. I cheered the rise of Pim Fortuyn, the brilliant gay soclogist who warned that the rise of Islam the Netherlands would lead to a dimishment of the eedom and secury enjoyed by Dutch gays — and, ed, to a loss of dividual liberty general.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS AMSTERDAM

Way back 2005, after a Mlim gang Amsterdam beat up gay Amerin journalist Chris Cra on a by street, the head of the untry’s major gay rights group said that tolerance of gays Amsterdam was “slippg away like sand through the fgers.

In his 2006 book Murr Amsterdam, about Theo van Gogh’s assassatn, the Dutch tellectual Ian Buma smeared Fortuyn, van Gogh and Islam cric Ayaan Hirsi Ali (who’d been driven om the untry) as dangero extremists bee of their unwillgns to promise wh Islam — even to the pot of acceptg the treatment of women as chattel and the cultn the young of hatred for fils, pecially Jews and gays.

'FOOTBALL FOR ALL': DUTCH STAND UP FOR GAY PLAYERS' RIGHTS

An activist sce 1970, she’s lived Amsterdam sce about ten years after that and has seen a uniquely safe, ee, and betiful home for gay people turn to a cy creasgly occupied and policed by an existential enemy. Then, June of this year, after a adly terrorist attack at a gay bar Oslo, she posted this: “It’s shockg to see a murro attack on gay people by an Islamist terrorist. In short, Bev may be a gay activist, but she’s obvly a proud progrsive first, mted to the absurd leftist fictn that Mlims are a celly opprsed group and th natural gay alli (even though she’s perfectly able to see through intil li about gay-transgenr uny).

Image livg Amsterdam for s, seeg bee creasgly Islamized — and hence creasgly perilo for gay people — and sayg and dog nothg about , and still havg the nerve to ll yourself a proud gay activist! But is this failure any wonr, when even a veteran gay activist won’t be hont about the biggt threat to gays our time?

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NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA

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. Durg Kg's Day and the Amsterdam Gay Pri, ftivals ept spontaneoly where Amsterdam's entire gay and lbians n have a great time. 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. 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. As a tribute to the many gay men and lbians who lost their liv World War II, the cy placed the first Gay Monument the world 1987.