Snas | Gay Amsterdam | Amsterdam

Contents:

• OUTSI AMSTERDAM: GAY GUI
• NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
• GAY AREA NETHERLANDS
• GAY AMSTERDAM
• LGBTQ+ AMSTERDAM – THE 14 BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS
• AMSTERDAM GAY SHOPS
• THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM
• GAY HOTELS AMSTERDAM

OUTSI AMSTERDAM: GAY GUI

While Amsterdam is famo for embracg and terg to the gay traveller, the rt of the Netherlands is often overlooked.

There are plenty of gay iendly stutns outsi Amsterdam's storied nals. Vis a PANN party Utrecht, one of the bt gay parti the Netherlands.

NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA

Formost among them is the PANN party seri, which has been voted for three years a row as the bt gay party the herlands.

The straight iendly event seri featur performanc and mic, and is anized by the gay and youth advocy anizatn Stichtg Pann. Rotterdam also has a thrivg gay scene whose epicenter is foced on bars suated around Van Olnbarneveltstraat and the neighborhood of Wtblaak.

GAY AREA NETHERLANDS

Cosmo is an extremely laid-back bar jt 5 ms walk om Keerweer and Rotterdam's ma gay club, the four-floored Club WHY (was: Gay Palace) is right next the day you'll want to explore the cy's many mms and archectural Hague and SchevengenThe Netherland's royal cy, The Hague, is well versed terg to queens.

Gay bars Cafe Vk, De Landman, Cafe Duijnstee, and Trmf bar are among the better known. Homosexualy was crimalised here more than 200 years ago, settg the precent for societal emancipatn Wtern Europe. The Homomonument is a celebratn of diversy and fiance the face of opprsn.

Never aga to war, never aga to liv senselsly lost, and never aga to the targeted persecutn of homosexuals. This monument is dited to the gay men and women who lost their liv World War II, eher on the battlefield or durg the occupatn of Amsterdam. Two members of the Amsterdamse Jongeren Aktiegroepen Homoseksuale (AJAH) were arrted for layg a wreath at Dam Square to memorate gay war victims.

GAY AMSTERDAM

The public protts that followed led to the buildg of the Homomonument, which nsists of three pk grane triangl set on the ground. The sign tak a symbol of opprsn – the patch homosexuals were forced to wear ncentratn mps – and ref a ntext of empowerment. You n learn more about the monument and Amsterdam’s LGBTQ+ history by pickg up some readg material om the Pk Pot – an rmatn ksk adjacent to the Homomonument.

You n fd the Homomonument a peaceful wateront square behd the Wterkerk. The Internatnaal Homo/Lbisch Informatiecentm en Archief, better known as IHLIA, is the largt archive of LGBTQ+ history the world.

Take a trip down memory lane and enjoy a drk at the olst gay bar the world. Café ‘t Mandje pris self on beg the olst gay bar the world.

LGBTQ+ AMSTERDAM – THE 14 BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS

Step si, grab a Pilsner and learn all about the world’s olst, openly gay nightlife spot – and s enigmatic founr.

AMSTERDAM GAY SHOPS

Plaqu around the monument tell the story of the pa and gradatn the gay muny suffered durg the AIDS panic of the 1980s. The disease disproportnately affected a whole generatn of bisexual and homosexual men, many of whom lost liv to HIV/AIDS. It quickly gaed populary among lbian, gay, and transgenr muni, offerg an alternative to the mastream club scene.

THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM

It origally opened 1970, and although wasn’t the first gay bs the area, was the first one to be openly so, favourg large, open wdows to barred-up on.

GAY HOTELS AMSTERDAM

In the late 70s and to the 80s, the street then began to explo wh new gay bars and clubs, helpg to cement Amsterdam’s role as an ternatnal gay pal. Highlightg the broad cross-sectn of visors to the area, Realy is a bar that typilly ters to Surame and Antillean homosexuals, referrg to self as a ‘gay bar wh a tropil flavour’. The Homomonument by the Wterkerk is a good optn for first port of ll.