World Wide Wave

9 Jun 2015

The Netherlands: Gay Utopia?

Europe

The Netherlands. It seems to be as close to gay utopia as you will find.

• But does being more or less ‘prudish’ affect how queer friendly countries are?
• What makes The Netherlands one of the most tolerant and gay-friendly places in the world?
• Does legislative change necessarily mean that homophobia and transphobia doesn’t exist?

To share the excitement and understand what this might mean for the rest of the world, we spoke with Bart van der Werf – Dutch born world traveller currently stopping over in Melbourne.

Find out more on World Wide Wave’s The Netherlands page.

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