gay pride (Netherlands)

In my PostCrossing profile, I invite people to send postcards that have an LGBTQ theme and to tell me about LGBTQ people where they live. I’m always a little embarrassed when people from the Netherlands or Denmark or Canada, for example, write about LGBTQ people because they have a much longer history of progressivism and celebration than we do in the US. This terrific postcard is a great reminder of that history in the Netherlands.

For example, t

he Netherlands was the first country to legalize same-sex marriage (2001), followed by Belgium (2003), and Spain and Canada (2005). Here in the US, we lagged behind them and South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Iceland, Argentina, Denmark, Brazil, France, Uruguay, New Zealand, England and Wales, Scotland, and Luxembourg before permitting it nationwide in 2015.