DutchNews, July 22, 2016
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| The canal parade in 2015. Photo: Amaury Miller via HH |
Fifteen days of parties, debates, concerts and other events start
in Amsterdam on Saturday as the Dutch capital hosts EuroPride 2016.
EuroPride,
first held in 1991, takes place in a different European city every year and is
being hosted by the Dutch capital in 2016 to mark 20 years of the Amsterdam Gay
Pride organisation. This year the event has the motto ‘’join our freedom’.
Over
300 events will take place between July 23 and August 7, including Pink
Saturday at the Vondelpark and a pro human rights concert on Dam Square this
Sunday. The traditional canal boat parade on August 6 includes floats hosted by
gay Moroccans, LGBT Jews and the police force, as well as the European
Commission.
‘We will celebrate that freedom but at the same time continue the
fight for equal rights in Europe,’ Lucien Spee, director of the Amsterdam Gay
Pride organisation, told the festival’s magazine.
‘This will continue until we
have the right to be who we are, to have families, to lead full lives and to
develop the careers that we want, wherever we are until we are fully accepted
and embraced with dignity by our families, neighbours and colleagues throughout
Europe.’
Tolerance
Despite the Netherlands’ reputation for tolerance – the
country was the first to legalise gay marriage for example – some 32% still
consider two men kissing in public to be offensive, according to research
published by the government’s socio-cultural think tank SCP in May.
Almost one
in four people finds the sight of two women kissing to be offensive, while 12%
find a heterosexual couple kissing in public to be objectionable.
While 83% of the native Dutch have no
objections to gay marriage, just 27% of the Dutch Somali population and 30% of
the Dutch Moroccan population think the same.
Nevertheless, the percentage of
people with an immigrant background who do not accept homosexuality and would
be unhappy if their child was gay has gone down over the past eight years, the
SCP figures show.
Attacks
Despite this, there has been a reported rise in
attacks on gay men and women over the past years, but, experts say, this may be
partly due to an increased willingness to report hate crimes.
‘Tolerance has
become part of the national myth, and it’s being instrumentalised by the
right-wing party and the media. So nowadays you’ll hear a lot more about
incidents between Muslim youths and gays because it serves the anti-immigration
discourse,’ University of Amsterdam sociologist
Laurens Buijs told website Iamsterdam.com.
‘But it’s also because the
LGBT arm of the Dutch police, the Roze in Blauw (‘Pink in Blue’), has done a
fabulous job at fostering a trusting relationship with the community,’ he said.
Roze in Blauw spokeswoman Ellie Lust told the website: ‘We have lowered the threshold of tolerance for discrimination, and victims now come to us to report even verbal attacks. This has definitely affected the statistics.’
Roze in Blauw spokeswoman Ellie Lust told the website: ‘We have lowered the threshold of tolerance for discrimination, and victims now come to us to report even verbal attacks. This has definitely affected the statistics.’
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