There was another incident of gay bashing in Amsterdam last week: a group of six men assaulted two gay men on the Reguliersdwarsstraat (that's where many gay bars (and my office) are) in Amsterdam city centre last Thursday night. The victims are aged 37 and 45 and were most likely attacked because of their sexual orientation, Amsterdam police said on Monday. Witnesses had called police and the six were arrested. The suspects are all between the ages of 15 and 19. Four are of Moroccan descent, one is Surinamese and one is Turkish. What is with those cultures that doesn't allow young men to explore normal sexual relations (whether heterosexual or homosexual) resulting in violence so often?
In other news, some of the street parties that were planned for Amsterdam Gay Pride (first weekend of August) were cancelled by the police. The reason is that at the same time there is a football tournament and many English football "supporters" are expected in Amsterdam. A spokesperson for the police said that "gay pride is always a very peaceful, festive event, but we don't want the football supporters to mix with too many gays in the red light district" where the gay leather party was planned. So once again peaceful people can not party freely and the police give in to violence.
Sometimes I wish our police and judicial system was more like Singapore's, and we could hang a few hooligans and give some Moroccan boys a good caning.
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Some sports clad footballers is just what Amsterdam's gay pride needs I reckon :-)
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