Answer 1 of 6: I will be visg Amsterdam for the first time om Augt 2 through Augt 5, and I jt learned that there is a large gay pri event held there durg that time. Can anyone scribe this event? I am specifilly terted the size of the...
Contents:
- GAY PRI EVENTS SRI LANKA
- GAY AND LESBIAN HOTELS IN SRI LANKA
- AMSTERDAM GAY PRI
- HOW BY IS AMSTERDAM DURG THE AUGT GAY PRI EVENT? - AMSTERDAM FOM
- GAY PRI FTIVAL CROWDS - AMSTERDAM FOM
- CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
- TRAVEL DIARY: A SRI LANKAN TALKS ABOUT GAY LIFE THE ASIAN REPUBLIC
GAY PRI EVENTS SRI LANKA
* sri lankan gay pride *
Sri Lanka's laws still nsir homosexualy a crime and a bill is pendg before Parliament to crimalize homosexualy.
June is Pri Month, when lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng, and tersex (LGBTQI+) muni across the world hold events that celebrate and affirm different sexual orientatns, genr inti, and genr exprsns. Flamer-Calra explaed that globally, the pri movement began 1969 wh the Stonewall Rts, a seri of monstratns and protts rponse to a police raid on a gay bar New York Cy, the Stonewall Inn, that saw the Police g vlence agast members of the LGBTIQ+ muny at a time US history where same-sex relatns was still crimalised many parts of the untry.
Colombo PRIDE has always been a celebratn of Queer inti, enuragg and spirg the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Intersex, and Queer/Qutng (LGBTIQ) muny and s Alli Sri Lanka to be proud of who they are. EQUAL GROUND is a non-prof anisatn seekg enomic, social, cultural, civil and polil rights for the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Intersex and Qutng/Queer (LGBTIQ) muny of Sri Lanka. Our immediate objective has been to ntribute towards crimalisg homosexualy Sri Lanka.
GAY AND LESBIAN HOTELS IN SRI LANKA
This is signifint as homosexualy is still nsired a crimal offence unr Sri Lanka's Brish lonial era-laws. However, Augt 2022, a bill was submted to the parliament wh the objective of crimalisg homosexualy and safeguardg the rights of LGBTQ+ muni. The street march by the “Freedom Pri Para” Colombo today me as a private member’s motn was before parliament to crimalise homosexualy a natn that still follows anti-gay laws hered om Brish lonial lers.
Found 2004 by Sri Lankan gay rights activist Rosanna Flamer-Calra, Equal Ground has dited over 15 years to nductg groundwork 50 ci across Sri Lanka.
AMSTERDAM GAY PRI
From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns!
It’s a Saturday afternoon June, which means gay pri celebratns are happeng all over the world, but this one is different than most.
This is Sri Lanka, where homosexualy is illegal. Members of the gay muny were actually the first tractors of Equal Ground, unhappy at the attentn Flamer-Calra was brgg to the group, which had been ntent to live the shadows. Flamer-Calra stat that the first four years of Equal Ground’s existence were actually the easit, spe the hatns of the gay muny.
HOW BY IS AMSTERDAM DURG THE AUGT GAY PRI EVENT? - AMSTERDAM FOM
At the same time, they cled to crimalize homosexualy, which is subject to the same crimal that nailed Osr Wil on charg of “gross cency” back the 1890s, a legacy of the Brish Empire. When the laws were stuted by the Brish 134 years ago, Sri Lanka (then lled Ceylon) was tolerant of homosexualy. It is equently noted by supporters of LGBT rights that the early kgs of Sri Lanka openly engaged homosexual relatnships wh the young men of their urts.
GAY PRI FTIVAL CROWDS - AMSTERDAM FOM
In practice, no one is ever arrted or brought to trial for homosexualy Sri Lanka, if only bee the charge would be too difficult to prove.
CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
However, g out as gay n rult ostracism om one’s fay, discrimatn hog, loss of work, rape, and physil vlence.
Throughout the island, ayurvedic snake oil clics promise an easy five-week “cure” for homosexualy volvg meditn and phystherapy.
Parks and beach known to be popular gay hangouts are equently targeted by police lookg for brib and easy targets for harassment.
TRAVEL DIARY: A SRI LANKAN TALKS ABOUT GAY LIFE THE ASIAN REPUBLIC
Many gay people end up marryg a member of the oppose sex jt to keep om beg disowned by their fay.