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Gay Amsterdam Guide
Gay Amsterdam travel guide: where to go, dance, guzzle and shop
Amsterdam, the city of canals, is not only renowned for its stunning architecture and cultural heritage but also for its thriving gay scene. The city offers a safe and accepting environment for the LGBTQ+ community, making it a famous destination for gay travelers. From legendary bars and clubs to exciting events, this Gay Amsterdam Guide is here to assist you discover the best that the city has to offer.
Our Gay Guide to Amsterdam shows you how to plan an unforgettable trip
with tips on the gay scene, the leading bars, parties, events, and more.
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The capital of the Netherlands has been a bastion of LGBT+ culture for centuries and has seen its community remain and thrive despite political and social adversity. Today, Amsterdam is home to some of the best gay clubs, bars and hotels in the world, offering gay travelers a truly unusual and exciting visit. The Netherlands is of course the first country in the world to introduce marriage equality, gay people living in and visiting the
Men occupy Amsterdam brothel windows
Several men on Saturday displayed their half-naked bodies in some of the tall windows that make up Amsterdam's Red Light District.
The protest is part of a dial for equal rights in Europe's most liberal tourist destination, which is mostly inhabited by female and transgender female sex workers.
Prostitutes rent a room in the De Wallen neighborhood and use one of the or so windows to advertise their services.
But despite making up 5% of the estimated 25, sex workers operating in the Netherlands, men are rarely seen.
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The so-called occupation of the Red Brightness District organized by the non-profit campaign group My Red Light, which rents rooms to sex workers and advocates for improved rights and labor conditions.
Vulnerable to exploitation
Campaigners insist that male sex workers also need safe spaces to operate from, noting that many men experience violence, maltreatment and exploitation while carrying out their work.
Organizers said the men taking part in the pho
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I'm from Germany and visited the red line sauna last summer. And I was both very pleasantly surprised and a bit disappointed. Let down only a tiny, because in the rest of Europe one is already used to larger saunas, with proposals such as Outdoor area, steam room and bar area But for Belgrade, such a queer sauna is a novelty at all. And above all: it is very beautiful! Very clean! Well maintained! I rarely saw that in German saunas. As a Western European, one has rather the prejudice that everything has come down a bit in the Balkans and is provisional there. But no way! Likewise, the staff is very nice and the mix of local and foreign visitors very fascinating. And it is like every sauna: sometimes more is going on, sometimes less. And whether one has much or little or no fun, depends just on how many guests at the time of the visit are there and the attractiveness and friendliness of the individual. But the sauna itself is great!
I could hear the outdated techno music from the street just outside of X-Size. It was go-go bar on Soi Twilight, Bangkok’s gay red-light district. The sound was reminiscent of a ’90s rave, so boisterous; I was expecting it to be packed inside but from the entrance it seemed like there was hardly anyone there. I infer in a place appreciate this, the size of the audience really doesn’t matter.
Andrew, one of the guys I’d met earlier at a highway bar on Soi Twilight, had recommended this place over the others on the strip. He claimed that it had the hottest guys to choose from for sex.
Andrew and his boyfriend visited the city often from Australia, for the vibrancy of the city, the diet and the Thai men; they were bona fide sex tourists from what I gathered, so I trusted them on this one.
As I entered X-Size, the host at the door kept saying, “Ladyboy, ladyboy,” which lost me. I assumed that all the bars along Soi Twilight featured cis men but at the same time, I wasn’t against the idea of going to a ladyboy bar.
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