http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl The no-nonsense travel guide to Amsterdam, Holland Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:50:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/651-soldiers-amsterdam-gay-pride-canal-parade http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/651-soldiers-amsterdam-gay-pride-canal-parade#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:50:40 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=651 Dutch soldiers are once again allowed to wear their military uniforms while participating in Amsterdam's Gay Pride canal parade, Deputy Defense Minister Jack de Vries has announced.

The deparment emphasizes that it will not officially take part in the parade by sponsoring a boat, as it does not believe the parade contributes to a more positive image of homosexuals.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/651-soldiers-amsterdam-gay-pride-canal-parade/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/596-university-of-amsterdam-gay-pride http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/596-university-of-amsterdam-gay-pride#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:11:20 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=596 The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will not sponsor a boat during Amsterdam's Gay Pride canal parade.

Last January Laurens Buijs, a researcher and teacher at the university's College and Graduate School for Social Sciences, started a campaign encouraging the UvA to participate in the parade by sponsoring its own boat. Doing so is necessary, Buijs says, because according to him "homosexuality is still taboo among students." ]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/596-university-of-amsterdam-gay-pride/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/335-amsterdam-gay-pride-2008-2 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/335-amsterdam-gay-pride-2008-2#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:11:33 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=335 In Amsterdam, 500,000 people turned out for the city's 13th annual Gay Pride canal parade.

A record eighty boats carried thousands of gays and lesbians clad in scanty or extravagant clothing through the city's historic centre.]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/335-amsterdam-gay-pride-2008-2/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/325-gay-pride-canal-parade http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/325-gay-pride-canal-parade#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:29:28 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=325 Nowadays many cities throughout the world have a gay pride parade, but keen observers agree: there's nothing quite like Amsterdam's Gay Pride Canal Parade.

Last year half a million people lined the canals and bridges to view the lengthy parade of, er, gayly decorated party boats. ]]> http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/325-gay-pride-canal-parade/feed 0 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/305-amsterdam-gay-pride-2008 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/305-amsterdam-gay-pride-2008#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:54:07 +0000 CityDesk http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/?p=305 http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/305-amsterdam-gay-pride-2008/feed 0