What To Do Gay Amsterdam for LGBTQ+ Travelers

Contents:

• GAY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER’S SELF-ACCEPTANCE LED TO EPER BOND WH LLEGE TEAMMAT
• 2013 054 NETZO, GAY VOLLEYBAL AMSTERDAM
• NETZO AMSTERDAM 25 JAAR GAY VOLLEYBAL
• 2013 051 NETZO, GAY VOLLEYBAL AMSTERDAM
• EUROPEAN GAY & LBIAN SPORT FERATN
• 2013 052 NETZO, GAY VOLLEYBAL AMSTERDAM
• VOLLEYBAL VROUWEN BSSELS GAY SPORTS
• 2013 053 NETZO, GAY VOLLEYBAL AMSTERDAM
• EUROPEAN GAY & LBIAN SPORT FERATN
• GAY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER’S SELF-ACCEPTANCE LED TO EPER BOND WH LLEGE TEAMMAT
• A GAY GUI TO AMSTERDAM
• DRAKE'S CISGAMSTERDAMMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSDRAG SHOWSLBIAN BARSSNASRTRANTSSHOPSGYMSSERVICTOURSMASSAGECY GUIGAY MAPNETHERLANDS EVENTSDRAKE'S CISG

GAY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER’S SELF-ACCEPTANCE LED TO EPER BOND WH LLEGE TEAMMAT

Gay volleyball player’s self-acceptance led to eper bond wh llege teammat. “How n you tell when another guy is gay? Francis Universy near Ptsburgh when I me out as gay.

I was hont wh them about what kept me the closet: the homophobic locker room talk, wonrg if people would accept me and not beg able to accept myself. Some part of me always realized that I was gay. In high school the tim I would hear words and phras like “fag” or “that’s gay” thrown around really ma hard to accept that I was gay.

I started to thk, there is nothg wrong wh beg gay.

2013 054 NETZO, GAY VOLLEYBAL AMSTERDAM

You are gay.

NETZO AMSTERDAM 25 JAAR GAY VOLLEYBAL

You are gay and that’s a good thg! ” His look of ncern was quickly met wh my words: “I am gay.

I spent my last semter of llege livg my life openly as a gay man and athlete.

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In 1811, the untry crimalized homosexual activy. The first gay bar, operated by an out lbian, opened s doors 1927. The COC, a gay rights anizatn, was found Amsterdam 1946 and is the world’s olst ntually operatg anizatn of s kd.

In 1987, the Homomonument beme the first memorial to homosexuals persecuted World War II, and 2001, the Netherlands beme the first untry to legalize same-sex marriage.

Knowg all this, may seem surprisg that Europe’s most historilly acceptg cy lacks a te gayborhood. The bt gay bars Amsterdam. SoHo is centrally loted the biggt LGBTQ+-iendly sectn of Amsterdam, and ’s steps away om popular gay bars Taboo, and Bar BLEND.

EUROPEAN GAY & LBIAN SPORT FERATN

Cafe t’ Mandje (“the basket”) holds the honor of beg Amsterdam’s first official gay bar. One n’t help but thk pk this zy cy-center gay bar.

Get on your kne, all fours, or whatever nsensually works for you to worship at the altar of this gay cise club. Niwuzijds (Gay Sna). If you’re lookg for a soak, steam, or somethg more obscene, this gay sna has got you vered — wh a towel, at least.

Like many urban areas, Amsterdam’s gay bar scene has seen a cle recent years.

2013 052 NETZO, GAY VOLLEYBAL AMSTERDAM

Unlike most global Pri events, which memorate NYC’s 1969 Stonewall Rts and the birth of the Gay Liberatn Movement, Amsterdam Pri began 1996 solely as a celebratn of love and diversy. Homomonument.

VOLLEYBAL VROUWEN BSSELS GAY SPORTS

In 1987, Amsterdam unveiled Homomonument, the world’s first monument memorializg homosexuals persecuted unr the Nazi regime.

Loted Wtermarkt, th l of pk grane form a triangle the square — a reclamatn of the symbol gay men and women were forced to wear ncentratn mps durg World War II. One fac the Natnal War Memorial Dam Square where gay activists laid a lavenr wreath 1970 and were subsequently arrted, sparkg the ia for this monument.

2013 053 NETZO, GAY VOLLEYBAL AMSTERDAM

Another fac Anne Frank’s hoe and is scribed wh a quote om a gay Jewish poet, Jab Israel Haan: Naar Vriendschap Zulk een Mateloos Verlangen (“Such an endls sire for iendship”).

The third fac the COC Nerland headquarters, which holds the distctn of beg the world’s olst ntually operatg gay rights anizatn. This LGBTQ+ rmatn center and souvenir shop loted next to the Homomonument has been operatn for over 20 years.

The rosarium, loted halfway through the park, is famoly known as the most equented gay cisg area the cy. This ty gay-owned boutique hotel facg Kerkstraat is a five-mute walk om the cy’s most popular gay bars on Reguliersdwarsstraat and a short stroll to Mmple.

EUROPEAN GAY & LBIAN SPORT FERATN

In the 1990s, the ne rooms this 16th-century rowhoe served as a bawdy boutique hotel for upsle gay clientele: Rooms me equipped wh bondage gear, slgs, and even g. Volleyball beme the way for Magdaong to fish his tn and as a man who openly intifi as gay, the sport beme his pathway to equaly opportuny and genr equaly.

GAY VOLLEYBALL PLAYER’S SELF-ACCEPTANCE LED TO EPER BOND WH LLEGE TEAMMAT

“I’ve been gay sce birth, ” Magdaong chuckled. He would get the ual qutn, “Oh, gay players are allowed? In an terview wh Fox Sports Asia, Ruel Pascua, ach for the UE Red Warrrs, admted that “there are fely schools that do not accept gay athlet” but that and his own perspective has changed.

He don’t ll discrimatn or anythg more harmful, but there was a belief that was so wispread that wasn’t qutned: “Gay men n’t play basketball. Gay men play volleyball. The Philipp has a reputatn om beg “gay-iendly” untry ked by the populary of many LGBT celebri, fashn signers.

The twklg lights and signag of gay bars le the streets of major ci like Quezon Cy and Manila.

A GAY GUI TO AMSTERDAM

In jt about every village across the untry, gay and transgenr bety pageants are held town halls jt a few blocks away om a Church.

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Gays play volleyball.