Articles about The Netherlands

11 April 2013
Uruguay votes to make same-sex marriage legal nationwide 15 Uruguay is to become the 12th country in the world to make it legal for same-sex couples to marry nationwide after Congress ratified a bill passed last week in the Senate.
21 March 2013
Row between Netherlands and Turkey over lesbian foster couple overshadows prime ministerial visit 23 Dutch PM Mark Rutte has rejected an appeal by his Turkish counterpart for ministerial-level talks over the case of a boy taken from his Turkish parents in the Netherlands and placed in the foster care of a lesbian couple.
18 February 2013
Turkey: Children fostered by European gay couples will be retrieved 34 The Turkish Human Rights Commission has said that Turkish children fostered by gay European couples should be returned to their families or given to Turkish couples instead.
8 January 2013
Dutch Priest posts photos of Catholic leavers to encourage them to stay, following Pope’s anti-gay speech 33 The names and photographs of parish members attempting to leave the Catholic church will be displayed by a priest in the Netherlands, in an attempt to encourage them to stay.
21 December 2012
Video: Amsterdam hosts the Drag Queen Olympics in spectacular style + As part of the Pink Christmas event currently being held in Amsterdam, the Drag Queen Olympics have kicked off in spectacular style.
24 October 2012
Parental rights to be extended for LGBT families in the Netherlands 5 The government in the Netherlands is looking to change the law to take into account its 25,000 LGBT families, and issues faced by step-parents or sperm donors.
5 June 2012
Dutch minister stops gay ‘cure’ therapy health insurance 24 Gay 'cure' therapy will no longer be available in the basic health insurance package in the Netherlands, Dutch Health Minister Edith Schippers announced today.
20 March 2012
Netherlands: Catholic Church ‘castrated boys as gay cures and punishments’ 47 A newspaper in the Netherlands claims to have uncovered cases in which boys in Roman Catholic care over half a century ago were castrated to stop them being gay or to punish them for uncovering abuse.
3 February 2012
Amsterdam’s ‘gay cure’ declaration rabbi reinstated 39 The chief rabbi of Amsterdam's Orthodox Jewish community has been reinstated after reportedly accepting he should not have signed a 'gay cure' declaration with the title.
8 January 2010
Portugal votes to legalise gay marriage 30 Portugal's parliament today voted to legalise marriage for gays and lesbians.
4 January 2010
US HIV travel ban lifted today 19 The ban on HIV-positive people entering the US officially ends today.

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