Topic: Netherlands

Hundreds of thousands of people thronged Amsterdam's streets to celebrate the city's 16th Gay Pride parade Saturday, organisers said.Techno and electro music played out at full strength, matching the cheers and applause of spectators watching a parade of at least 80 extravagantly ...
Openly gay troops in the Dutch defense ministry joined for the first time Amsterdam's massive Gay Pride paradeOpenly gay troops in the Dutch defense ministry joined for the first time Amsterdam's massive Gay Pride parade. The city's 16th annual parade arrives just ...

Gay Acceptance Gaining Across The Globe

A greater number of countries have become more accepting of gay men and lesbians over the last two decades, a new study concludesA greater number of countries have become more accepting of gay men and lesbians over the last two decades, a ...
Dutch pair Helene Faasen and Anne-Marie Thus walked down the aisle into the history books 10 years ago as the world's first legally wed lesbian couple, a distinction they now employ in activism."We married for love, not politics. But of course we ...

French court upholds gay marriage ban

The French constitutional court on Friday upheld the country's gay marriage ban, saying it was in keeping with the constitution.The court made the ruling in response to a bid by a lesbian couple, who have four children, to marry after spending 10 ...

Gay marriage in the Netherlands

The Netherlands has allowed same sex marriages since April 1,2001 the first nation in the world to do so. On January 1,1998 registered partnersships were introduced in law in the Netherlands. The upper house approved the bill on December 19,2000.At the stroke ...
The United States has been trying for some time to ban Gay marriage. I now reside in the Netherlands where this isn't an issue as it was the first country to allow gay marriage in 2001. Now that Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, ...

Coming Out Around the World

Did you know that being gay is illegal in 80 countries and punishable by death in Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen and some parts of Nigeria and Somalia? South Africa, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain and Canada, as well as ...
According to the Amsterdam, well-known for its wide-ranging and diverse gay and lesbian scene, also has a rich homosexual past. Barcelona has its own gay community so big that it claims its own district Eixample (Gaixample), which of course offers LGBT (lesbian, ...
Three former Dutch colonies are preparing to introduce gay marriage and adoption laws as they come under direct Dutch ruleThree former Dutch colonies are preparing to introduce gay marriage and adoption laws as they come under direct Dutch rule, Radio Netherlands reported. ...
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