Yesterday it was Remembrance Day and today we celebrate Liberation Day.
On 5 May the Dutch celebrate the end of the Second World War at the Museumplein (Museum Quarter) and reflect on the imprisonment of millions of other people around the world today.
Artists and actors, performers and cooks, volunteers and many others: they offer a wonderful [...]
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Don’t let this happen!
Hi,
Have you heard that Ken Starr — and the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund — filed legal briefs defending the constitutionality of Prop 8 and attempting to forcibly divorce 18,000 same-sex couples that were married in California last year? The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in this case on March 5, [...]
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This year Amsterdam will host a special pink Christmas event. From December 18th until December 28th 2008, Amsterdam’s city centre will be decorated in the token of Pink Christmas. Part of the program is a Christmas market on Sunday December 21st in the Reguliersdwarsstraat. Nothing is holy this Christmas, apart from the love between two [...]
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I Have a Dream”
delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
Last night that dream got a new impuls in Denver
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It was one big party yesterday when over 80 boats floated down Amsterdam’s canals in the Gay Pride Parade.
Over half a million visitors watched and joined in the party on the quays of Prinsengracht, Amstel and Zwanenburgwal.
The float started with ‘Pink in Blue’, the LGBT group of the Dutch Police Force, followed by a municipal boat [...]
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I myself are not that religious, but I do believe in freedom of speech.
As schism has spread through the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion, fueled by foreign archbishops and right-wing think tanks, I have watched in growing alarm as the Anglican Church of Nigeria has pressured the government to pass the most sweeping anti-Gay [...]
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