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Contents:

• 'WE DON'T BELIEVE YOU ARE GAY': LGBT REFUGE NETHERLANDS LOSE HOPE
• IS TOM HOLLAND GAY?
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• HOLLAND, GAY RIGHTS AND THE BIBLE (LETTERS)
• THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR

'WE DON'T BELIEVE YOU ARE GAY': LGBT REFUGE NETHERLANDS LOSE HOPE

Jt two years ago, the church received much public praise for rcdg a 2015 policy, ntroversial among Mormons at the time, that clared the mor children of gay people uld not be baptized to or jo the church as members—at least not until they were 18 years old, and only then if they would nounce their parents’ marriage and nmn their sexualy. Given how ntent the qutn of gay rights has been among Mormons sce the church threw s whole weight behd California’s anti-gay-marriage Proposn 8 2008, the post-2019 perd has been one of wele relative quiet om the church. C., Holland’s speech was the first time I tly worried that my future kids might attend public school wh peers who would be tght about the evils of beg gay, week and week out at church.

The church clud the proclamatn as evince of s doctral mment to a heterosexual fay s amic brief agast gay marriage Hawaii jt two years later. Mormonism is now facg a world which not only the majory of outsirs, but also a signifint portn of their own membership—cludg s own universy’s faculty—seem to regnize that doctre for what is: a list of proposns phrased as irrefutable tths, issued by a group of men who grew up wh homophobia suffg every stutn their liv. He sgled out one openly gay BYU alum particular, former valedictorian Matt Easton, who me out as gay his 2019 mencement speech.

The same day Holland issued his revanchist addrs to the faculty, BYU’s admistratn was openg and publicizg s new Office of Belongg, a long-sought-for refuge not only for BYU’s growg number of openly gay stunts, but also s relig and racial mori, who are reported to face wispread bias and prejudice on mp, acrdg to a report issued by an ternal Commtee on Race, Equy, and Belongg. Still, today, the church funnels members who nfs to feelg “same-sex attractn” to support groups that enurage members to enter heterosexual marriag, wh promis that the gay feelgs will be overe after sufficient fahfulns, or at least, ath.

IS TOM HOLLAND GAY?

Matt Easton has ced the wily publicized 2016 ath by suici of one of his classmat at BYU, Harry Fisher, as part of the reason for his cisn to e out as gay his valedictorian speech. Due to Mormon teachgs that there is no way to have romantic relatnships wh those of the same sex and be exalted the afterlife, gay Mormons face high rat of lonels, suicidaly, and prsn. 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.

Four qutns for John W, Profsor of Social and Behavural Scienc and an expert the study of homosexualy and social scienc.

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.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

There is no doubt that Amsterdam was an ternatnal (homosexual) tourist attractn, pecially for gay men, the last s of the 20th century. This untry also has a long tradn of gay-rights anisatns, the heir to the beg today's COC (Dutch anisatn advotg for LGBTQI+ rights).

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

What else n you tell about the current state of acceptance for homosexuals (and other LGBTI+ persons) the Netherlands? The Netherlands is performg pecially poorly the area I like to summarise as protectn agast homophobic statements and homophobic vlence.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

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 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.

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. Furthermore, Haarlem is loted jt a stone's throw away om some of the most betiful parts of the Dutch beach (cludg a gay nu beach).

HOLLAND, GAY RIGHTS AND THE BIBLE (LETTERS)

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. Numero gay bars var areas around the cy make easy to meet new iends, lols and other LGBTQ+ travelers om all over the world. The Netherlands, general, hosts six Gay Pri events begng wh the Gay Pri Alkmaar May and endg wh the popular Gay Pri Rotterdam September.

Distant natural wonrs, famo metropolis, theme parks, gay sports events and faraway iends are great reasons to travel. To an onle followg of lns of fans, Holland is the slenr, soft-spoken sger-songwrer whose experienc of growg up gay South Korea have created a mil safe space as rare visibily for LGBTQ people the K-pop scene.

But to one man Seoul, his existence igned a homophobic hatred that eliced an attack one of Seoul’s most foreigner-iendly areas. Late on May 5 lol time, Holland shared through Instagram and Twter that a stranger physilly attacked him and lled him “a dirty gay” Seoul’s Itaewon area, primarily known for havg a large foreigner populatn and a handful of gay bars.

THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR

Wrg, “this is obvly a hate crime, ” Holland, who is not fluent English, reflected on how “the fact that my sexualy as gay is public should never expose myself to this kd of vlence. Sadly, vlence and fear among LGBTQ+ people are monplace South Korea, where homosexualy is still nsired taboo and a divisive issue between the olr and younger generatns. After sufferg years of physil and verbal abe om his fay, his employers and even random people on the street for beg gay, he fally ma the cisn to flee to the Netherlands, a untry ternatnally ld as one of the most LGBT-tolerant plac the n I go back to Iraq?

"IND told me, 'We don't believe you are gay bee you don't speak about right, " says Zaman by FaceTime om his home Midlburg, south Netherlands, where he liv wh his Dutch fiancee Richard.

Acrdg to Zaman, the IND poted to his lack of knowledge about the lol Dutch gay scene and said they didn't believe he was a relatnship wh Richard, who he had met a few months prr to his first terview wh the IND  June 2016. He also clud 12 letters om fay, iends, neighbours and NGO workers who knew him as evince of his told me, 'We don't believe you are gay bee you don't speak about right'– Zamen, Iraqi refugeeHowever, ls than a week after submtg all June this year, he was rejected aga. Zaman's se is jt one a long le of LGBT asylum rejectns the Netherlands based on refuge beg emed "not gay" by the IND.