Men are standg up to homophobia by holdg hands after a gay uple was attacked the Netherlands. The hashtag #allemannenhandhand is beg ed on Twter and Instagram.
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- DUTCH MEN HOLD HANDS SOLIDARY WH GAY UPLE
- NEW SUBWAY STATN HAS PUBLIC ART RARELY SEEN: A GAY COUPLE
- GAY UPLE DEVON LLED 'ABOMATN' FOR HOLDG HANDS
- THUGS WHO ‘NEARLY KILLED’ GAY UPLE FOR HOLDG HANDS AT PRI PE JAIL TIME
DUTCH MEN HOLD HANDS SOLIDARY WH GAY UPLE
* gay couple holding hands *
When I was younger, I thought that beg gay was somethg terribly wrong.
I enuntered homophobia everywhere -- sports, school, the media. I ternalized the homophobia until beme a part of me. I pretend to be straight and passed as such sce I did not exemplify the stereotyp, held by many of those around me, of what meant to be a gay man.
I was still burned by the homophobia that had eply impacted me throughout my life. Dpe beg a target of homophobia throughout his life, Ryan projected a sense of surens who he was. I will ntue to stggle wh beg fully fortable as a gay man, and I accept that.
NEW SUBWAY STATN HAS PUBLIC ART RARELY SEEN: A GAY COUPLE
Holdg hands is a simple fiant act of gays and lbians who choose to face a hateful world * gay couple holding hands *
But for gay and queer upl, such a seemgly simple act n rry much more weight. Beg openly gay or queer is still not safe or accepted everywhere, so we gave our rears the optn of beg anonymo or omtg their last nam.
Perhaps was growg up at a time where homosexualy wasn’t talked about.
GAY UPLE DEVON LLED 'ABOMATN' FOR HOLDG HANDS
A gay man myself, I uldn’t help watchg the two twenty-somethg guys as they walked past hand--hand. * gay couple holding hands *
I was still very much the closet — only a few close iends knew that I was gay. I remember feelg relief and excement about my future as a gay man which motivated me to live openly and thentic. I never really felt danger until after gay marriage was legalized.
Once that happened, people were a lot more open about their homophobia and we toned our public affectn down even further. There are several gay bars, and throughout June, many bs here have a rabow flag schoolyard excement of fad quickly to fear, as I glanced up and saw two men.
THUGS WHO ‘NEARLY KILLED’ GAY UPLE FOR HOLDG HANDS AT PRI PE JAIL TIME
Men hold hands solidary wh gay uple. Men all over the world are standg up to homophobia by holdg hands. The trend was sparked by reports of a gang attack on a gay uple, Jasper Vern-Sewratan, 35, and Ronnie Sewratan-Vern, 31, Arnhem, a cy the east of the Netherlands, the early hours of Sunday morng.
The hashtag support of the uple was spired by Barbara Barend, founr of a Dutch magaze, who tweeted Sunday, “Can this whole week all men (straight and gay) please jt walk hand hand …”. “NEC turns s back on anti-gay vlence, ” the post says.
Although the Netherlands was the first untry the world to legalize gay marriage, 2001, activists say is not yet ee of homophobia. “While some may thk of the Netherlands as some sort of ‘gay paradise, ’ the tth is that the layer of acceptance this untry is thner than many people thk, ” he said.