#amsterdam pride 2023

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Bu yıl ki #gay #pride ı da izledik. UZAKTAN :) Eğlenceliydi.

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Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau poses for pictures as she takes part in the Canal Pride Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands -August 5th 2023.

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Amsterdam Pride

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Kamerata Zuid & Anneke van Giersbergen - Let The Light In (live @ Markan...

One of my favorite singers who I follow for years, wrote this song for the LGBTQIA+ community. In a time where I am sometimes afraid to go outside and walk through the streets, where I read the daily hate in comments under almost every post about LGBT on almost every app, where it's becoming more and more dangerous to be yourself and where it seems that almost every different group of people in this world is against the community, it's sometimes hard for me to stay positive and keep myself in mind that I am worthy and that I matter. That I am not what all those people online say about us. I hope I can soon experience Pride again, and meet like-minded people, and to feel love again. I hope I can soon feel that I matter again. For it's been so long I've felt those things.

That's why this song means a lot to me. It's one thing to follow an artist for years and years, but finding out that she is also very supportive of the community makes me love her even more.

The composition, the lyrics and especially the last part of the song; her voice, her long notes, it's what I always loved about her. I saw her live again only a few weeks ago, amazing as ever. A brief recognition that I was there with a wave and a smile. I'm so happy for this song.

Even in dark times, in scary times, and in times I'm afraid how things will go on or evolve.. I hope that everyone will let their light in. And keep doing it. Because we matter.

Happy pride!

💖🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💖

[iamdjgordon]

Amsterdam summer nights 🕺🏻❤️‍🔥

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Being a Dutch Jew, here is some information about the violence in Amsterdam that is either common knowledge in the Netherlands, or is from some sources in Dutch that might not be commonly available for an international audience.

First of all about hooliganism, Amsterdam's football club Ajax is known as a 'joodenclub', a 'jewclub', because Amsterdam used to have a large jewish minority, many of whom were supporters of the club, and because several Dutch Jews were members of the team at one point. Ajax supporters take pride in this name. Because of this, there is a good relationship between Ajax and Macabbi, and the match was considered at low risk for football related violence and supporters of both teams mixed freely on the train back to the city center. In fact, only a pro-palestine protest was moved away from the stadium, because the police had recieved information that 'harde kern' Ajax hooligans were planning to stop that demonstration.

On that note, I have seen mixed information on what the Macabbi supporters were singing, but regardless, because Ajax is known as a jewclub, a common chant among the fans of opposing Dutch teams is "Hamas, hamas, alle joden aan het gas," or "Hamas, hamas, all the jews to the gas." Yes, a chant heard at pro-palestine protest is originally from Dutch football. Authorities have been cracking down on it in recent years, but a cursory google found people being arrested over it as recently as may 2023. Somehow, jews have never attacked random supporters of opposing teams at matches where this was chanted. Any Dutch person trying to justify things would be well aware of this.

About media coverage, I get my news about Amsterdam from Het Parool, a left-of-center, Amsterdam-based newspaper, that grew out of a WWII resistance paper. This is the current (about 16:30 Dutch time) front page of the newspaper website. In it the violence is described as an 'antisemitische klopjacht' an antisemitic manhunt. Most articles about it are paywalled, but firefox screenreader mode can bypass it.

Finally, I recognised a lot of the terminology in intenational news coverage from yesterday's press conference by Mayor Halsema (the woman in the picture above), which was also shown live by the dutch public bradcaster. In it an AP reporter asks in Dutch about Macabbi provocations, and they partially quote the police chief's answer, but not Mayor Halsma who came in right after, and said that the violence was in no way justifiable. I'm linking the full YouTube video of the press conference below. It is mostly in Dutch, and I have no idea about the quality of the autotranslation, but at about the 30 min. mark an Al Jazeera reporter asks a similar question in English, and the Mayor's answer in English is very clear.

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BY ABBY MONTEILApril 30, 2024

More than 60 LGBTQ+ organizations are calling for broadcasters, competitors, workers, and viewers to boycott 2024’s Eurovision Song Contest following the competition’s decision to include Israel in this year’s event, which takes place in Sweden.

Support for the boycott has come from LGBTQ+ organizations around the world, including QPEN in the United States, Queers in Palestine in Palestine, Pride in Protest in Australia, and Dyke March Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

“Israeli soldiers wave rainbow flags atop the ruins of Palestinian homes destroyed by the Israeli military in Gaza — a cynical attempt to rebrand Israel’s genocide as an act of queer liberation,” the boycott’s organizers said in a press release statement.

The statement likely refers in part to a viral November 2023 post from the state of Israel's official X account, which showed an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier standing amidst rubble it what was reportedly northern Gaza holding a Pride flag that had “In the name of love” written on it in English, Hebrew, and Arabic. The post said that the soldier is “a member of the LGBTQ+ community” who “wanted to send a message of hope to the people of Gaza living under Hamas brutality.” The post was criticized by LGBTQ+ advocates for being a prime example of “pinkwashing.”

The statement continued: “Allowing Israel to participate in Eurovision — an international pop cultural event with a massive LGBTQ+ audience — further contributes to Israel’s desperate pinkwashing attempts.”

The groups’ press release noted that although Eurovision excluded Russia the day after the country invaded Ukraine, similar measures have not been applied to Israel following the January International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that it is “plausible” that Israel is committing acts of genocide in Gaza. While the ICJ stated that it would proceed on South Africa’s case charging Israel with violation of the 1948 Convention of the Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the court did not order Israel to stop its military operations. Since Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 and took 250 hostages, Israeli military actions have killed over 34,000 Palestinians in Gaza and injured more than 75,000 Palestinians.

This isn’t the first time that artists and LGBTQ+ organizations have protested the international music competition’s inclusion of Israel. Back in 2019, over 100 LGBTQ+ groups endorsed a Palestinian call for a boycott of that year’s competition, which took place in Israel, following what Amnesty International described as “deliberate attempts” to kill and maim Palestinian civilians participating in protests in Gaza.

This past January, more than 1,000 Swedish musicians, including LGBTQ+ icon Robyn, called for Eurovision to exclude Israel from the 2024 competition in an open letter to the European Broadcasting Union, who said in a statement to Billboard that the Israeli public broadcaster KAN has met all the competition rules for this year and is eligible to compete.

Later, in March, over 1,900 queer artists and organizations called on the UK’s Eurovision contestant, queer actor and musician Olly Alexander, to boycott the competition out of solidarity with Palestine.

Eurovision 2024 is set to begin on May 7.

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Harry with a Pride Flag 🏳️‍🌈

Love On Tour 2023: Amsterdam, Night 3. (6 June 2023)

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Disabled actors with ungiffed roles (of course any roles are welcomed) for disability pride month:

Michael J. Fox (1961) - has Parkinson's Disease - Designated Survivor (2018), See You Yesterday (2019).

Mat Fraser (1962) - has thalidomide-induced phocomelia - Loudermilk (2017-2020).

Daryl Mitchell (1965) African-American - is paraplegic - Fear the Walking Dead (2018-2023).

Warwick Davis (1970) - has spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita - Willow (2022-2023).

Selene Luna (1971) Mexican - has dwarfism - Mayans M.C (2022-2023).

Cherylee Houston (1974) - has Hypermobility Ehlers-Danlos syndrome - Coronation Street (2010-2023).

Callan Mulvey (1975) ¼ Maori, ¾ Scottish - is blind in one eye - has been in a lot of things including Last King of the Cross (2023), Firebite (2021-2022), Till Death (2021), and Mystery Road (2020).

Shannon Murray (1976) - is paraplegic - Viewpoint (2021), Get Even (2020).

Kurt Yaeger (1977) - is a leg amputee - Another Life (2021).

Katy Sullivan (1979) - is a double leg amputee - Dexter: New Blood (2021-2022).

Jamie-Lynn Sigler (1981) Cuban / Ashkenazi Jewish, Romaniote Jewish, Sephardi - has multiple sclerosis - Big Sky (2021-2023).

Prince Amponsah (1985 or 1986) Ghanaian - is a double arm amputee, with his right arm amputated above the elbow and his left arm amputated below the elbow - Avacado Toast the series (2022) and Station Eleven (2021-2022).

Rana Daggubati (1984) Telugu Indian - is blind in one eye - Rana Naidu (2023).

Rick Glassman (1984) Jewish / Italian - is autistic - As We See It (2022), Not Dead Yet (2023).

Ali Stroker (1987) - is paraplegic and bisexual - Echos (2022), Only Murders in the Building (2021-2022), Ozark (2022).

Josh Thomas (1987) - is autistic, has ADHD, and is gay - Everything’s Gonna Be Okay (2020-2021).

Jillian Mercado (1987) Domincian - has spastic muscular dystrophy - The L Word: Generation Q. (2019-2023).

Ruth Madeley (1987) - has spina bifida - The Almond and the Seahorse (2022).

Tim Renkow (1989) Mexican Jewish - has cerebral palsy - Jerk (2019-2021).

Melissa Johns (1990) - is an arm amputee - Grantchester (2021-2022).

Steve Way (1990) - has muscular dystrophy - Ramy (2019-2022).

James Moore (1992) - has cerebral palsy - Emmerdale (2018-2023).

Arthur Hughes (1992) - has an upper limb indifference - The Innocents (2018).

Madison Ferris (1992) - has muscular dystrophy - Panic (2021).

RJ Mitte (1992) - has cerebral palsy - The Unseen (2023).

Mei Kayama (1994) Japanese - has cerebral palsy - 37 Seconds (2019).

Ryan J. Haddad (1995) Lebanese - has cerebral palsy - The Politian (2019-2020).

Lauren Spencer / Sitting Pretty Lolo (1996) African-American - has Lou-Gehrig’s disease - The Sex Lives of College Girls (Season 2).

Annabelle Davis (1997) - has dwarfism - Hollyoaks (2023).

Kayla Cromer (1998) - is autistic - Everything’s Gonna Be Okay (2020-2021).

Micah Fowler (1998) - has cerebral palsy - Speechless (the latter seasons!)

Daniel Monks (?) - is quadriplegic - Sissy (2022).

Matthew Jeffers (?) - has dwarfism - New Amsterdam (2018-2023).

Ben Mehl (?) - has macular degeneration called Stargardt's disease, which causes one to lose central vision- You (2021).

Gloria May Eshkibok (?) Mohawk, Ottawa, Irish, French - is Two-Spirit (she/her) and has one eye - OChiSkwaCho (2018).

Zack Weinstein (?) - is quadriplegic - Sing It! (2016).

Angel Giuffria (?) - is a congenital arm amputee - To the Dust (2022), Good Trouble (2022), Impulse (2019).

Joci Scott (?) - is paraplegic - Smash or Pass (2023).

Jacob Mundell (?) - congenital hand amputee - The Expanse (2021-2022).

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Suvi, 20

“To pride I’m wearing matching pink pants with my partner and one of my earrings matches with them as well. I have a mesh shirt with flowers in it which is a thrift store find from Amsterdam. The brown bralette is a thrift find from UFF. I made the little flower chain myself. My bag is full of pins, patches and embroidery and it’s my favorite bag. Socks with sandals has become my summertime footwear. My style is very colorful and I like flowers and plants a lot so they are also in a lot of my clothing. I love my buzz cut and building looks around it, now it has hearts in all the colors of the rainbow in it!”

1 July 2023, Helsinki Pride

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Language of Flowers Masterpost

My fills for event hosted by @seasonaldelightsbingo 🌹 Fort this one I managed a blackout with almost 9k written words with drabbles a some short stories. Hope you like them!

It’s Dizzying to Bid Farewell

💐 Riding a Bike Down the Lane

Fandom: Captain America Movies Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers | T | 4,5k words WARNINGS: No Powers AU, Single Parent Bucky Barnes, Teacher Steve Rogers Summary: Bucky’s friends set him up on a blind date, while Steve’s hoping to get a second date and fate seems to have other ideas for the pair.

Dancing, Happy, Seen

💐 Intense Eye Contact

Fandom: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020) Carlos Reyes/TK Strand | G | Drabble Summary: Carlos’ thoughts during his first dance with TK.

Going Fishing and Other Summer Disasters

💐 Going Fishing

Fandom: Red White & Royal Blue (2023 Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor | G | 504 words WARNINGS: mention of fishing, not described Summary: Alex takes Henry fishing. Henry is not that thrilled.

I Already Have You

💐 Picking Dandelions

Fandom: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020) Carlos Reyes/TK Strand | G | Drabble Summary: Carlos and TK go on a picnic.

Harder Than It’s Supposed To Be

💐 Frostbite

Fandom: New Amsterdam (TV 2018) Casey Acosta/Lauren Bloom | T | 608 words WARNINGS: Episode: s03e12 Things Fall Apart (New Amsterdam), Asphyxiation Summary: After the pipe bursts, it’s Lauren’s priority to take care of everyone before her. Casey finds her when she collapses.

Dough and Love

💐 Watching it Rain Outside

💐 Baking Together

Fandom: The Avengers Movies Bucky Barnes/Clint Barton/Laura Barton | T | 1,4k words Summary: Bucky has been visiting the Barton’s monthly for a year, and gotten closer to Clint and Laura throughout time. This visit, though, may be the last one.

I Am Free

💐 “Your Love Lifted Me Higher Than I’ve ever Been Lifted Before”

Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV) Evan "Buck" Buckley/Tommy Kinard & Christopher Diaz | G | Double Drabble Summary: The 118 get ready for a Pride demonstration. It’s both Tommy and Buck’s first time.

Rooftop Confessions

💐 Locked Outside

Fandom: The Avengers Movies Bucky Barnes/Loki | T | Drabble Summary: Bucky and Loki talk to kill time while being locked outside on the rooftop.

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Speech by King Willem-Alexander at the commemoration of the role of the Netherlands in the history of slavery, Oosterpark, Amsterdam

01-07-2023

Ladies and gentlemen, here in the Oosterpark, on the Museumplein, in Suriname, in the Caribbean part of our Kingdom, or wherever in the world you are tuning in,

‘Within the city of Amsterdam and its jurisdiction, all men are free, and none are slaves.’

These are the words of a Dutch legal provision from 1644.

We are standing in a city that, for centuries, has prized freedom above all else.

In the capital of a country that, throughout the course of history, has repeatedly battled against tyranny and oppression.

And yet, the principles that were taken for granted within this city and within this country did not apply beyond its borders. Here, slavery was banned. But overseas it was not.

Of all the ways in which a person can be robbed of their freedom, slavery is surely the most painful. The most degrading. The most inhuman.

To view a fellow human being as a commodity, to do with as you please. To use them for profit, as a beast of burden, with no will of their own. To be chained, traded, branded, worked to the bone, punished. Or even killed with impunity.

Recently, the Queen and I have had many conversations with people in the European Netherlands and in the islands of the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. We’ve met people with Surinamese roots, and people with ties to Indonesia. Among them are people who only have to go back three generations to find family members born into slavery.

And they made very clear just how deep the wounds remain.

Thanks to the work of many dedicated researchers, we are learning more and more about the Netherlands’ role in the history of slavery. We know that more than 600,000 people were transported across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa aboard Dutch ships, to be sold as slaves or put to work on plantations. Around 75,000 did not survive the crossing. We also know about the extensive slave trade to the East, in areas controlled by the Dutch East India Company. And we know about the atrocities committed against the indigenous populations of the colonies.

But there is also so much that we don’t know. The archives contain the raw figures. They present the facts with a bookkeeper’s precision. But the voices of the enslaved are lost in the mists of time. Leaving barely a trace behind.

It is awe-inspiring that so many of them found the strength to rise up against their captors, even if it was often an act of simple desperation. From their hideouts in Suriname’s vast forests and swamps, resistance fighters such as Boni, Baron and Joli-Coeur defiantly challenged the inhumanity of slavery. Their heroic deeds, and those of many others, are a testament to a pride and strength that could not be broken.

Very occasionally, we find the voice of a black freedom fighter preserved in the written record. One example is Tula, the leader of the 1795 revolt in Curaçao. Five months ago, the Queen and I stood with our eldest daughter on the site where he lived and worked, the former Knip plantation.

How reasonable and compassionate Tula’s words sound to our modern ears. Invoking the ideals of the French Revolution and the equality of all people, regardless of their skin colour, he said, ‘We do not seek to harm anyone, but want nothing more than our freedom.’

The response from the authorities was brutal and merciless. As punishment, Tula was tortured and then beheaded.

The horrific legacy of slavery remains with us today. Its effects can still be felt in racism in our society.

On 19 December last year, the Dutch prime minister apologised on behalf of the Dutch government for the fact that, for centuries, in the name of the Dutch State, human beings were made into commodities, exploited and abused.

Today I stand before you. Today, as your King and as a member of the government, I make this apology myself. And I feel the weight of the words in my heart and my soul.

But for me, there is another personal dimension.

Slavery and the slave trade are recognised as a crime against humanity. And the Stadholders and Kings of the House of Orange-Nassau did nothing to stop it.

They acted in accordance with laws which at the time were considered acceptable. But the system of slavery illustrated the injustice of those laws.

As the Second World War highlighted more recently, you cannot hide behind laws when your fellow human beings are reduced to animals and subjected to the whims of those in power.

At a certain point you have a moral duty to act. All the more so considering that here, in the European Netherlands, slavery was strictly forbidden. What was thought normal in the colonies overseas – practised on a large-scale and encouraged, in fact – was not allowed here. That is a painful truth.

The independent study I have commissioned will shed more light on the precise role played by the House of Orange-Nassau in our country’s colonial past and the history of slavery. But today, on this day of remembrance, I ask forgiveness for the clear failure to act in the face of this crime against humanity.

I realise only too well that by no means everyone shares the same feelings about this commemoration. And there are people in the Netherlands who feel that apologising now, so long after the abolition of slavery, is going too far. Nevertheless, the vast majority of them do support the fight for equality for all people, regardless of skin colour or cultural background.

I would therefore ask you to open your hearts to all those people who are not here today but who do want to work with you to build a society in which everyone can participate fully. I ask you to respect the differences in people’s experiences, backgrounds and powers of imagination.

During the conversations the Queen and I recently had with the descendants of enslaved people, one said, ‘Let’s not be so anxious. Don’t worry so much about saying the wrong thing’. Someone else said, ‘Let’s embrace our discomfort’.

There’s no blueprint for the process of healing, reconciliation and recovery. Together, we are in uncharted territory. So let’s support and guide each other.

Sixty years ago today, a group of Dutch people of Surinamese origin marched through the centre of Amsterdam waving banners that read ‘Ketie Kotie fri moe de’. They lit the fire of remembrance that we keep alight today.

This is an important day for anyone with ties to Suriname, including those whose forebears travelled to the colony as contract labourers.

I hope that the descendants of enslaved people and of people subjected to forced labour in other parts of the world feel they are part of this gathering. I hope they feel heard. People from the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. And the many Dutch people who have ties to Indonesia, and who carry the pain of great injustice in the past.

We all have our own family history. Our own emotions. Our own cultural traditions that ground us in our communities. Our rituals that comfort us, symbols that encourage us, and words of wisdom that resonate in our hearts.

All those traditions are precious, and they deserve respect. But let us also reach out beyond them to each other. To build a world without racism, discrimination and exploitation.

After acknowledgment and apologies, let us work together to foster healing, reconciliation and recovery. So that we can all be proud of what we share. So that we can say:

Ten kon drai

Times have changed

Den keti koti, brada, sisa

The chains are broken, brother, sister

Ten kon drai

Times have changed

Den keti koti, fu tru!

The chains are broken, it’s true!

[royalchildreneurope]

Countess Eloise of Orange-Nassau takes part in the Canal Pride Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands -August 5th 2023.

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Universal Orlando Resort Pride Month Offerings

Food AND Drink

Type of Funny Food: Seasonal

Introduced: June 2023

Location: Universal Orlando Resort

During the month of June in 2023, Universal Orlando Resort offered a number of pride-related food and drink at their parks and CityWalk shopping and dining center.

For food, this included:

the Pride Shake at Toothsome's Chocolate Emporium, a milkshake made with Fruity Pebbles ice cream topped with Nerds and Nerds Rope candy, whipped cream, and a slice of rainbow-colored cake,

the Pride Petit Cake at Croissant Moon Bakery and San Francisco Pastry Company, a layered combo of rainbow cake and Fruity Pebbles-flavored frosting all topped with a rope of rainbow sour candy,

the Pride Bar at Voodoo Doughnut, a yeast bar covered in rainbow and white icing and filled with Bavarian cream,

the Pride Cake at the Today Cafe, a slightly larger version of the cake at Toothsome's,

and the Pride Roll at Cowfish, a dessert sushi made with sweet rice filled with lemon curd, strawberry compote, and vanilla cheesecake and topped with kiwi, mango, pop rocks, cantaloupe, and strawberry.

For drinks, multiple venues across the resort, such as Bob Marley - A Tribute to Freedom and Red Cocunut Club offered themed cocktails. These were Rainbow Vacation (a layered cocktail of coco cream, orange bitters, mango, pineapple, lime juice, and turmeric topped with dragonfruit boba and Bitter Truth's Creme de Violette float) and Blue Dazzle (New Amsterdam gin, St. Germaine liqueur, simple syrup, lemon juice, edible blue glitter, mint, and cucumber).

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Image of the Pride Shake is mine! Was soooo good- already miss it. Image of the drink list is also mine, though I'm not a drinker so I didn't order any of the themed alcohol!

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It has been decided that we will be going to the Boston 2023 Pride Parade for/on my 30th birthday (June 10). Seems like a good way to party. And that unlike last time in 2014 when we unwittingly walked into Amsterdam's Pride celebration as a family on vacation, we'll know what's going on this time 😅.

My dog will be coming, so we gotta get him a lil bandana of some sort. He likes to celebrate... we took him to St. Paddy's last year.

My brother's partner will also be coming.

[iamdjgordon]

Amsterdam Pride 2023 = impeccable vibes + a healthy dose of rain 🇳🇱🌈☔️