_Movg Layer :: The Amsterdam Gay Map

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.

NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA

Vis a PANN party Utrecht, one of the bt gay parti the Netherlands. 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.

GAY AREA NETHERLANDS

Rotterdam also has a thrivg gay scene whose epicenter is foced on bars suated around Van Olnbarneveltstraat and the neighborhood of Wtblaak. 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.

GAY AMSTERDAM

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. 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.

LGBTQ+ AMSTERDAM – THE 14 BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS

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.

AMSTERDAM GAY SHOPS

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

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.

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

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. Next to the Homomonument is Pk Pot, Amsterdam's official gay and lbian rmatn ksk.

Pk Pot provis rmatn about the Homomonument, as well as general rmatn on gay and lbian Amsterdam. If you haven’t found what you were lookg for at Vrolijk, try IHLIA, an ternatnal gay/lbian library, archive, rmatn and documentatn centre about homosexualy and sexual diversy the Amsterdam Public Library (OBA). Durg Amsterdam Gay Pri and Kg’s Day, the bars this district are prime viewg platforms for everythg gog on around and on the water.

GAY HOTELS AMSTERDAM

As well as beg home to several gay-iendly hotels and bed & breakfasts, the street boasts Club Church, which hosts large-sle club nights, often themed, throughout the week.

But this street was also home to the first gay & lbian bar the Netherlands! AboutVis Niwezijds Gay Sna if you're up for some good, gay and clean fun a morn and luxur sna near Amsterdam's Central Statn.

The place is not the largt gay sna that I have vised but had all of the prerequis, steam and dry snas, banas, and maz.