Boats Parade put Amsterdam on stilts – Telegraaf.nl

AMSTERDAM –

Lots of pink, rainbow flags, nudity, leather, glitter, dances, flirtation and deafening music. The canals were Saturday again the scene of the annual boat parade, the highlight of the Amsterdam Gay Pride. Eighty boats showing exuberant partying lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT), but also a lot of straight people, attracted by the many visitors along the quays

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The procession began just before 14:00 pm from Westerdok and enter a six kilometer long route through the city to the Oosterdok where the parade ends at the end of the afternoon. The theme this year was’ Share ‘under the slogan’ Share the love, love the differences. ” And that love was Saturday again fully shared on the sunny Canal Parade, which was held for the twentieth time.

So it was on the boat of COC Netherlands intense kiss between two men and two women, on top of a high scaffolding enveloped by the rainbow flag. The crew kept still images of kissing gay men and lesbians. The underlying message was something serious, “Time for real acceptance” it read in large letters on the side of the boat

Peter Boot

The AIDS Fund had the ‘cock boat. bearing meter high inflatable penises an important story; namely that everyone in the world should have access to good HIV medications. “No medication is just silly,” was one of the signs that kept the crew in the air.

For the first run this year a boat along with refugees, some of whom were masked because their face dared not show. According to the initiators have LGBT refugees not only in their country of origin but also dealing with loneliness and anxiety. Also new were the young homeless boat and the boat kingdom. We held on a vessel large LED screens and a 360-degree camera which anyone could log worldwide to experience what it is like to sail.

There were a lot of famous Dutch people on the water. Thus conduct Minister Ronald Plasterk (Interior), Henny Huisman, farmer Bertie and her ex Esther Boer Seek Wife, Willeke Alberti and Alex Klaasen with.

Kingdom Boat

Boat 68, the kingdom boat did have the theme of Gay Pride imagining the best. That the jury of the gay event Saturday. The boats had to work on the theme ‘Share’ (Sharing). Of the eighty participating boats on the Grand Parade jumped boat out, not so much how the passengers looked but especially the message propagated to the boat, said a spokesman.

The kingdom boat was an initiative of interest from Curacao, Aruba, St. Maarten and the Netherlands. The founders wanted to point out that the laws and regulations for the LGBT community not be the same everywhere in the kingdom. “You can raise the pedantic finger that there is equality within Europe must be, but let’s start with equality within the Kingdom of the Netherlands,” said the spokesman.

In the three separate countries within the Kingdom, Aruba , Curaçao and Sint Maarten, may people of the same sex in a registered partnership have with each other

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