Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The only protester I have ever seen was one lady preacher on a street corner near the Central Station telling passers-by that they would go to hell etc. This was last year or in 2004. To my knowledge, there have not been any kind of organized protests against Gay Pride in the past several years. The only people in Amsterdam who are openly against this sort of event are the Muslims; but they do not protest at a large event like that, instead limiting themselves to attacking the odd gay couple straying into their neighborhoods :-( No, here in NL this is a mainstream event, that is why you have all these big companies supporting it. And the mayor of Amsterdam is on record as saying that he wants the city to be a place where two gay men or two lesbians can walk hand in hand, anywhere, without being accosted by anyone. Nathan On 8-aug-2006, at 15:43, H. Ball Arche wrote: > Of course there are always a-ho's who won't pass up on > a chance to make themselves obnoxious, but the South > has no monopoly there. I'm willing to bet even in > Holland there were a few 'counter-protesters'. Nathan Wajsman nathan@nathanfoto.com General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog