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Silverfoxesclub-digest In this issue: -Cheerful Gay Bars for Older Men in Amsterdam
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Hello Stephan,
Don't forget to say "Hi" to Marco from Dean & Jvrg from Berlin when you visit Macho Macho! P.S. Another MUST-SEE is Amsterdam's "Homomonument," just around the corner from the Anne Frank House. In "Are You Two ... Together?: A Gay and Lesbian Guide to Europe," Lindsy Van Gelder writes: "Regardless of what time of year you come to Amsterdam, don't leave town without a visit to the Homomonument, which 'commemorates all women and men who were ever oppressed and persecuted because of their homosexuality,' particularly the thousands of men who were forced to wear the Pink Triangle in Nazi concentration camps. Designe by Karin Daan, it's one of the most graceful pieces of public sculpture anywhere. There are other European memorials to the gay victims of World War II -- in Bologna, and in West Berlin, and in several of the camps themselves. The Amsterdam monument, however, dedicated in 1987, is easily the most prominent. It was deliberately situated near the Anne Frank House, a center and symbol for antifascist and antiracist movements from all over the world (many of whose members, unfortunately, probably don't know that Anne's father censored her homoerotic musings from the famous diaries). [They've been re-included today.] Since it's less a 'monument' in the bowling-trophy sense of the word than a sort of staired terrace jutting into the Keizersgracht canal, you could miss the Homomonument altogether, or mistake it for an oddly shaped, rose-colored dock. But if you know what you're looking at, you see a giant pink granite triangle, 107 feet on each side. The large triangle in turn contains three smaller triangles. One points to the Anne Frank House; a second points toward the headquarters of the country's major gay-rights organization , the Cultuur- en Onstpannings-Centrum (Center for Culture and Leizure), or COC (pronounced 'See-Oh-See,' incidentally, NOT 'cock'); the third triangle extends down the stairs and into the canal, forming a wharflike space where people loll on their backs in the sun, read, and eat lunch. But nobody forgets where they are. The day we were there, someone had left a bouquet of roses and white daisies, along with a little piece of paper that simply said 'Gay Indonesia.' Across the way, on the stone canal wall, there's a huge piece of graffitti that's obviously been there for some time without the authorities scrubbing it off. It refers to the antigay law passed in Great Britain in 1988: 'STOP CLAUSE 28'"
.........Goede reis! ("Bon voyage!" in Dutch) End of silverfoxesclub-digest V1 #285
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