THE 10 BEST Amsterdam Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

Contents:

• GAY DATG NETHERLANDS
• EXPLORG A DUTCH PARADOX: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC VTIGATN OF GAY MEN'S MENTAL HEALTH
• THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM
• GAY THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• THE NETHERLANDS - WORLD GAY MAG
• GAY LIFE A TOLERANT SOCIETY ABA
• GAY LIFE NETHERLANDS ANTILL (CURAO)

GAY DATG NETHERLANDS

And, y, acrdg to many sourc, The Netherlands is one of the most LGBT-iendly statns the world (rankg #14 on the Spartac Gay Inx 2021). Beg gay has been legal sce 1811, and 2001 the Netherlands beme the first untry the world to legalize marriage for all upl, regardls of genr.

EXPLORG A DUTCH PARADOX: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC VTIGATN OF GAY MEN'S MENTAL HEALTH

Together wh untri like Germany, Canada, and Swen, is currently ranked among the gay-iendlit natns the world, acrdg to the annual Spartac Gay Travel Inx 2018.

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

The Netherlands, general, hosts six Gay Pri events begng wh the Gay Pri Alkmaar May and endg wh the popular Gay Pri Rotterdam September.

The judge also dismissed a document om a fay member nfirmg the mortal threat, claimg an Afghan would not help a gay relative this way. Wh more than a ln Mlims a untry of 17m, fears about the supposed exceptnal homophobia of Mlim migrant muni have igned a moral panic over “toleratg tolerance” the past .

Refuge are often met wh spicn, and Mlims particular are often seen as havg loyalti elsewhere that will stop them om assiatg to the (prumed homogeno) “native” populatn. Applints have been rejected for var failgs their “gay performance”, cludg not beg effemate enough or not participatg a gay scene their home untry. My rearch also nfirms prev reports that applints have been nied for not beg faiar wh homosexualy laws or wh LGBT bars their home untry.

GAY THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!

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. 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 NETHERLANDS - WORLD GAY MAG

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.

GAY LIFE A TOLERANT SOCIETY ABA

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.

GAY LIFE NETHERLANDS ANTILL (CURAO)

Even more importantly, ’s a liberal mocracy that enshr gay rights and promot a healthy work-life balance… surely that’s enough reason to move there?

Thanks to s stat as the first untry the world to legalize same-sex marriage (2001) and one of the earlit to legalize homosexualy (1811), the Netherlands has long been a draw for those search of alternativ to the heterosexual liftyle and an active gay scene. Whether ’s the Dutchi’ egalarian approach, their iendls, the fact that the untry was the first to legalize gay marriage, the generally low crime rate, the expandg enomy and great work-life balance, Dutch gezelligheid, the hash, the boats, even the wdls, pendg on who you talk to, you’ll e up wh different answers to what’s wonrful about beg an expat the Netherlands – maybe even as many answers as there are expats.

Dpe the Netherlands' reputatn as a world lear wh rpect to gay rights, homosexual Dutch men have much higher rat of mood disorrs, anxiety disorrs and suici attempts than heterosexual Dutch men. Drawg om fieldwork nducted the Netherlands om 2009 to 2010, we explore soccultural and ntextual factors that have received relatively ltle attentn wh rpect to gay mental health. Notwhstandg their putative socenomic, legal and polil equaly, gay men stggled - at var stag of the life cycle - wh ternalised norms that they found difficult to fulfil.

To be hont, puttg gay male sex workers the red light district wdows is exactly the kd of equaly that we are lookg for we are lookg for the days; te visibily. But, the particular men puttg themselv on display De Wallen are standg there as a part of a mpaign put on by My Red Light, a nonprof brothel that works to improve ndns for sex workers and HUNQZ, "the largt work for gay and bi male and trans pannship servic worldwi. "As a gay man livg Amsterdam, I often walk through the red light on the way home and wonr how different would be if there were men the wdows too, " Jens Schmidt, founr of HUNQZ, said a statement.

It would be an unrstatement to say that The Hague was gay-iendly as seems down every rner of the ter durg the rearch or this post that there is a ltle piece of the queer muny that shows self. The Hague has untls gay attractns, clubs, bars and history that n be disvered around this cy, showg how loud and proud the lol gay muny is.