Dutch Islamist Cell Targeted Gay Pri Para, Court Hears | Barron's

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• DUTCH ISLAMIST CELL TARGETED GAY PRI PARA, COURT HEARS
• AMSTERDAM SUBSTUT 'PRI WALK' FOR NAL PARA 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF GAY PRI
• OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED
• GAY PRI EVENTS NETHERLANDS
• AMSTERDAM GAY PRI 2023
• 1 AD AFTER PEOPLE H BY TCK ACCINT AT SOUTH FLORIDA GAY PRI MARCH: POLICE
• DUTCH ISLAMIST CELL TARGETED GAY PRI PARA, COURT HEARS
• AMSTERDAM SUBSTUT 'PRI WALK' FOR NAL PARA 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF GAY PRI

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. "I missed , and I thk everybody missed , " said Chas, 42, as she watched the rabow flotilla plete wh celebrants dancg feathers, glter and leather pass unr a 25th edn of the para ps a week of Pri events the cy as the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muni celebrated their inty and monstrated for their rights.

"Origally this was gay pri, but today you see hundreds of thoands of people regardls of whether they're gay or straight or whatever, and that is so fantastic, " said reveller Jonas van r Kaaij Olsen, 53, draped a rabow year the theme was "My Genr, My Pri" seekg to foc attentn to genr inty as anisers said transgenr emancipatn has lagged behd that of other Pri ftival said s foc is gradually changg om celebratg people's right to love whomever they want to their right to be whoever they a poll by broadster EenVandaag, 73% of rponnts who intified as LBGT supported holdg the Pri event, while nearly half thk should be ls mercial and more foced on rights issu. First we wanted to jo ary para, but then a gay para Augt, " the email read.

AMSTERDAM SUBSTUT 'PRI WALK' FOR NAL PARA 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF GAY PRI

[1/5]People rry a giant rabow flag the 25th gay pri para Amsterdam, Netherlands Augt 7, 2021.

REUTERS/Eva PlevierAMSTERDAM, Aug 7 (Rters) - Amsterdam pped a month of events memoratg the 25th anniversary of s first Gay Pri ftival wh a "Pri Walk" through the cy's historic centre on Saturday that drew around 10, 000 participants rryg flags and an enormo rabow banner. "Tim have changed, and now a lot of (gay people) don't feel safe anymore, even Amsterdam 70 percent don't dare to walk holdg hands, " said Siep Haan, who lnched the first boat para 1996.

Amsterdam "was a gay paradise 25 years ago and we have to get that back, " he told lol broadster om 71 untri around the world where homosexualy is a crime led the route, together wh a sign scribg grim punishments prcribed for those nvicted. Dpe the event's ser msage, participants wore lourful outfs and marched to cheers, whistl, chants and dms as they passed through the cy's Gay Pri ftival Amsterdam ually draws half a ln partipants and viewers. Let’s n through a short history of gay rights the US and Netherlands, and how they ternnect celebratn of Pri Amsterdam.

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

It was early the morng of June 28, 1969 when the police raid the Stonewall Inn to make their ual arrts of s gay patrons. For example, was at this time that the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s diagnostic manual listed homosexualy as a socpathic personaly disturbance, Print Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive orr that would ban homosexuals om workg for the feral ernment, sayg they were a secury risk, and the police arrted and molted them wh impuny.

GAY PRI EVENTS NETHERLANDS

Gays and lbians were effectively outlaws, livg secrecy and fear. The only plac where they uld openly be themselv were gay and lbian bars and the Stonewall n provid a safe haven for so many the muny.

The Stonewall was one of the few gay bars Greenwich Village where patrons uld dance, drk and be themselv, even if for a while. Police raids on gay bars were nothg new at the time.

In the aftermath of the rts, a large group of those volved formed the Gay Liberatn Front, an anisatn dited to crimalisg homosexualy the US. Magaze, the first perdil published by the gay and lbian muny after the Stonewall rts June 1969,. ”The Gay Liberatn Front is a aln of radil and revolutnary homosexual men and women mted to fight the opprsn of the homosexual as a mory group, and to mand the right to the self-termatn of our own bodi.

AMSTERDAM GAY PRI 2023

For example, July a Gay Power rally took place Washgton Square Park New York. Ultimately, this activism led to the first Gay Pris beg held on June 28, 1970, New York, Los Angel, and Chigo.

1 AD AFTER PEOPLE H BY TCK ACCINT AT SOUTH FLORIDA GAY PRI MARCH: POLICE

From Stonewall rts to Gay Pris. The Stonewall rts gave rise to the birth of hundreds of gay anisatns all over Ameri a short perd of time. The Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) which was found after the uprisg cid November 1969 to memorate the Stonewall rts unr the name Christopher Street Liberatn Day.

Today, Gay Pri Paras that were spired by the first Christopher Street Liberatn Day take place worldwi. Dpe s name, Amsterdam Pri has a different orig than many Gay Pris other parts of the world. Pk Saturday is the Dutch versn of the Gay Pri Para, which was held for the first time on June 25 and nowadays annually every cy.

The name trac s origs to a monstratn anised by ROZA on April 14, 1979, Roermond followg some bigoted statements by bishop Gijsen about homosexualy an terview wh the Elsevier magaze January 1979. The bishop had said some nasty and hateful thgs about homosexualy and none of that was gog to be tolerated by activist groups and/or the LBGTQIA+ muny. What was supposed to be a ftive day turned to rts as the three paras wh gays, lbians, and iends marchg towards the cy centre were threatened, spat on, and pelted wh onns and eggs.

DUTCH ISLAMIST CELL TARGETED GAY PRI PARA, COURT HEARS

Amatr viographer and gay rights activist Rob Vri rerd the paras and the mayhem and this vio n be found on NPO.

AMSTERDAM SUBSTUT 'PRI WALK' FOR NAL PARA 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF GAY PRI

While thgs may be somewhat better now, there is still a lot of work to be done wh regards to acceptance and rights for the gay, lbian, transgenr, queer and tersex muni the Netherlands. In 1960s Ameri, gays and lbians were seen as nothg but outlaws and had no choice but to live secrecy and fear. It was a perd when society saw homosexuals as predators and child molters, the police saw them as crimals while nstantly preyg on them bee they were easy targets that society didn’t re for.

Stonewall electrified the ph for gay equaly and every year as Pri is celebrated the Netherlands, we all remember the activists who gave blood, sweat, and tears for the LGBTQIA+ muny of today to dream big. Image source, RtersImage ptn, Protters broke through a police rdon to stop the Pri eventUp to 2, 000 anti-LGBT protters stormed a gay pri ftival Geia's pal Tbilisi on Saturday, forcg s right-wg protters, who clud Orthodox Christian clergy, scuffled wh police, shed the stage and burned rabow anisers and Geia's print blamed anti-LGBT hate speech that preced the event, and said the police had failed to protect ftival-goers.

Homophobia remas rife Geia. Both the driver and the victims were nnected to the Fort Lrdale Gay Men’s Chos, which was volved the Pri event, acrdg to the group’s print, Jt Lrdale Mayor Dean Trantalis, who attend the para, ially scribed the crash as a “terrorist attack on the LGBT muny.