By Yok Bahceli AMSTERDAM (Rters) - As a rabow-lored flotilla parad through Amsterdam's nals for the cy's annual Gay Pri ftival on Saturday, one float rried a soberg remr that gay rights do not extend to all the Kgdom of the Netherlands. Although the Netherlands self beme the first untry to legalize gay marriage 2001, the three Caribbean members of the larger Kgdom -- Aba, Curao and St Maarten -- have yet to follow su, reflectg cultural taboos the mostly Catholic island natns. "We don't have equal rights our kgdom for gay and transgenr cizens," said Koen van Dijk of COC, the ma Dutch gay rights anizatn.
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- DUTCH ACTIVISTS LL FOR CARIBBEAN NETHERLANDS TO ADOPT GAY RIGHTS
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
DUTCH ACTIVISTS LL FOR CARIBBEAN NETHERLANDS TO ADOPT GAY RIGHTS
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Around the world, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, queer persons and persons of another genr and sexual orientatn (LGBTIQ+) face discrimatn and vlence. Picture: iStock@mizoula Last week, all of Amsterdam was given over to Gay Pri: for an entire week, extra attentn for the acceptance of homosexualy and LGBTI+ rights was asked and given, pped off by the world-famo Amsterdam Pri Para.
The abolishment of homosexualy – more specifilly sodomy – as a punishable offence origated the French era at the start of the 19th century, while the societal emancipatn that has been unfoldg sce the late 19th century has been driven by velopments Germany. There is no doubt that Amsterdam was an ternatnal (homosexual) tourist attractn, pecially for gay men, the last s of the 20th century.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
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This untry also has a long tradn of gay-rights anisatns, the heir to the beg today's COC (Dutch anisatn advotg for LGBTQI+ rights). The Netherlands is performg pecially poorly the area I like to summarise as protectn agast homophobic statements and homophobic vlence. In recent years, attentn paid to promotg the acceptance of homosexualy has foced primarily on the tolerance of others, of migrants and of people wh an Islamic background.
The past year has been a turbulent one for the Netherlands: take, for example, the two gay men who were beaten Arnhem, or the advertisg poster om Susupply that picted two men kissg. The ntext and the perceptns of the victims here n offer val rmatn and should play a major role such s, along wh the rmatn provid by the perpetratorsFirst and foremost, the asslt on Jasper and Ronnie Vern-Sewratan Arnhem begs the qutn of why the public prosecutor felt this was not an stance of anti-gay vlence and, more generally, what exactly nstut homophobic vlence the Netherlands. There is a long tradn of superficial acceptance here the Netherlands, terms of both homosexualy and other social differenc: 's all fe and well for you to be different, as long as I don't see .
Image: Susupply But is tly acceptance when people say that homosexuals n live their liv as they please, yet those same people then e a stir over the romantic pictn of two men. While more and more untri are hostg their own versn of Gay Pri, the Gay Pri events origated as a prott of police vlence agast gays, lbians and transgenr dividuals New York Cy.
The below anizatns provi servic to LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers the Netherlands: COC the Netherlands COC Netherlands advot for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex persons (LGBTIQ+ persons). COC striv for the crimalizatn of sexual orientatn and genr inty and for equal rights, emancipatn and the social acceptance of LGBTIQ+ persons the […] * netherlands homosexual rights *
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