It started with 5 Gay weddings on the boat of the City, performed by Mayor Job Cohen, the first couple see movie are friends of a friend. AT5 is a local broadcaster but this news item could be seen all over Europe. These ‘mixed’ marriages are made up of Dutch and American same-sex couples. I know that [...]
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Chair, snacks, drinks and a blanket! Tomorrow evening it’s Open Air Movie Night at Nieuwmarkt in the centre of Amsterdam. All of this has to do with Gay Pride 2009.
The feature movie is Breakfast on Pluto.
A foundling lad, Patrick “Kitten” Braden, comes of age in the 1970s. He leaves his Irish town, in part to look [...]
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The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when gays, lesbians and transgenders fought [...]
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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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Living in a two room apartment [66 square meters] has it charms but also has a negative point… space. Last Thursday I was for the first time, since it opened in July 2007 [07-07-07], at the Central Public Library here in Amsterdam. When it opened I tried to get in but was stopped by a [...]
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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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The canalpride will start on Saturday August 2nd. At 1.30 p.m. The boats will start from Westerdok and will sail via the Prinsengracht towards the Amstel. Around 5 p.m. the last boats will sail through the canal. It is expected to be very busy along the canal so you are strongly advised to be in [...]
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Today is the Las Vegas Marathon and half marathon, in my mind I run all the way with Michael Guy of Chicago who trained over the last 6 months using the National AIDS Marathon Training Program. This is a six-month physical conditioning program that will train you to complete a marathon and help raise millions of dollars [...]
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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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