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Treatment ban 'lhbti+ conversion' begins
Watch back COC's Rainbow Election Debate
COC's Election Debate on Friday night, Oct. 27
Christian Union wants to stop new surrogacy law
'What saved me in the Netherlands is the LGBT+ community'
75 Years of COC at NOS Journaal
Lower House: €7.5 million extra for human rights projects abroad
COC crowns new generation of activists and role models on 75th anniversary
PRIDE PILGRIMAGE ALONG CHURCHES TO MARK 25 YEARS OF PRIDE AMSTERDAM
COC Netherlands supports crowdfunding campaign 'Tikkie voor Leon'
Gerard Spong in action against OM's arbitrariness around LGBT discrimination
Different and Authentic: Position of religious LGBT people
DEMONSTRATION AGAINST HUNGARIAN ANTI-LHBTI LAW
COC happy with intention to ban 'LGBT cure'
Five Curaçao political parties in favor of opening marriage
COC demonstrates on Saturday, March 6, in Krimpen aan den IJssel
Oranje Fonds awards 100 thousand euros for strengthening bicultural LGBT community
Pope's pronouncements are minor revolution
Fatherland theologian: 'Churches acknowledge suffering done to LGBT+ people'
Nashville statement not punishable, according to prosecutors
COC members win Winq Diversity Awards
German bishops: 'Homosexuality is normal, immutable and no reason for discrimination'
Scoop: Liturgy for transgender persons at Protestant Church
Launching HolyBe - online platform for and by Christian LGBT youth
Take action against LGBT hostile teaching method
'Wonderful' nominated for Best Theological Book 2019
CU secretary of state Blokhuis wants to start conversation with his party over open marriage
First Dutch publication on transgender people, faith and church
Radical preacher speaks at Amsterdam mosque
Hate preacher will not enter the Netherlands
Christian LGBT umbrella supports call: 'Stop homogenization!'
Majority in favor of entry ban on hate preacher
COC: refuse hate preacher entry to the Netherlands
COC wants ban on 'gay cure'
Homosexual pastor suspended
Hospitality 400 years after the Dordt Synod
Much solidarity at Celebration of Love
Reform school administrator signed Nashville statement
'Loving reaction' to Nashville declaration on Utrecht Cathedral Square
Celebration of Love in Zwolle
Trial court case on Nashville declaration
Transgender people safe in Church
'Nashville declaration harmful to Christian LGBT people'
Prosecution investigates Nashville statement for criminality
Wednesday Celebration of Love in Amsterdam
Orthodox Protestant statement is harmful and unmerciful
Pink Christmas Church Service 2018
LGBT Christians Forum in Armenia canceled due to violence
EO contributes to church conversation about LGBT people with film 'Believer'
LGBT+ heroes receive blessing in Pride Church service
Handbook for Pink Celebrations
Christian LGBT people in conversation with Pastor Koney
German cardinal in favor of blessing same-sex couples
Being a woman or a man in the church, or something in between
Study day on relationships, church and blessing
First brochure Transgender, faith and church
Trans Pride Church Service
Very regrettable: Bishop De Korte cancels Pink celebration at St. John's
COC calls on Jehovah's Witnesses to remove LGBT hostile video.
IDAHOT vigil in Oude Kerk Amsterdam
Jubilee service Evangelical Pink Celebrations
Optimism at conference Empowering bicultural LGBT people
Conference Empowerment Bi-cultural LGBTs
Shary-An becomes ambassador for Respect2Love
Christian LGBT people lament decision CGK
Reject homosexuality obvious, Salaheddine finds
Pink Christmas Church Service 2016
International Queer & Migrant Film Festival 2016
Book of stories Roman Catholic LGBT people
Presentation theme issue of journal Religion & Society
Disgusting flyer distributed in Amsterdam
'Weird' choice EO over LGBT broadcast
Participant status at Council of Europe for European Forum Christian LGBT groups
Banner pope with rainbow book on facade of RC Church of Peace
Moroccan boat sails in front in Canal Pride
Rainbow candles in Limburg Marian chapels
EuroPride opens with religious celebration in Vondelpark
Christian gay organization keeps grant
Pope receives collection of speeches Fr. Van Kilsdonk
Bussemaker calls Heart of Gays to task
Jehovah's Witnesses refuse conversation with COC
Artists sing for EuroPride Flag Campaign
Pastor with special mission for LGBT community
IDAHOT vigil 2016 with European Queer Muslim Network
Bussemaker supports European LGBT Muslim network
Heartless and harmful children's video from Jehovah's Witnesses
Congress on God, Sex and Politics
Call to Dutch bishops: follow pope's merciful path
France acquiesces in rejection of gay Vatican ambassador
Public coming-out not summit for bicultural LGBTs
EuroPride Flag Campaign: On every house of worship a rainbow flag!
Refo youth reject 'practicing' homosexuality
Pope and patriarch speak out against 'gay marriage'
Action to bless same-sex marriage couples in PKN
'Don't give stage to homophobic Abdullah Hakim Quick'
Pink Christmas celebration supports LGBT asylum seekers
Rik Torfs: 'Church teaching must change'
Symposium Jubilee Catholic LGBT Pastors
Keizersgracht Church makes way for Gay Pride Church Service
Divided opinion on ministry and homosexuality
Riek Stiensta lecture on religion and homosexuality
'Unworldly Vatican response to Irish referendum'
Wielie Elhorst chairman European Forum Christian LGBT groups
Wake against Gay/Bi/Transphobia
Partner registration no automatic dismissal of employees German RC institutions
Christian over-50s more lenient about gay relationships
Festive conclusion of successful project period Christian LGBT alliance
Emancipatory impact church blessing same-sex couples
Jewish Canon with window on Jewish LGBT people
COC president on LGBT people and faith in Paulus Church Breukelen
Three million euros to address marriage violence, homophobia and honor-based violence
Antwerp bishop calls for church recognition of gay relationships
Heleen de Boer new president LKP
PINK CHRISTMAS CHURCH SERVICE
More support needed for Moroccan and Turkish Dutch LGBT people
Remonstrants recruit with 'My God marries gays, too'
Bishops' conclusion 'deeply disappointing'
Cardinal Eijk: 'Gays should adhere to abstinence'
'Same-sex couple not second-class Christians'
'Positive developments' around homosexuality in Roman Catholic Church
Synod of Bishops on family, marriage and sexuality
Symposium Faith and sexual diversity in Christian practice
COC pleased with ruling on church case
Eindhoven project sexual diversity in Turkish community
'Sexual diversity is as Islamic and Moroccan as heterosexual love'
Gay Pride Church Service PLUS: breakfast - service - website unveiling
Sexual diversity in Moroccan circles - film premiere & debate
First Dutch transgender club opens Friday
Differences in views on homosexuality in Frisian churches
Club Kalinka - first Dutch transgender club
Presentation method of discussing homosexuality
Migrant organizations present method for discussing sexual diversity
IDAHOT vigil in Orange Church Amsterdam
'Restored Reformed Church waives discipline against Pastor Viscount'
PRIMEUR: Theme day on being transgender and faith
Call Christian LGBT organizations: churches voice disapproval of Ugandan anti-gay law
Christian LGBT organizations moderately positive about NGK interim report
NGK - postponement decision on gay relationships and church ministry
Christmas celebration and Christmas dinner in The Hague
PINK CHRISTMAS CHURCH SERVICE
"I cannot and will not bar gays from the Lord's Supper"
Purple Friday in solidarity with LGBT students
Gay priests answer Vatican questionnaire
Disappointing CGK decision on homosexuality
LKP president Wielie Elhorst quits effective Jan. 1, 2014
National Open Day of ContrariO
Call by Dutch bishops disclosure questionnaire Family Synod
Christian LGBT people offer Evangelie Gemeente Utrecht conversation
Holiday about faith for pink women
Pope's statements 'very good news'
Extra money for gay acceptance in the four major cities
Gentle statements pope step in right direction
Gay Pride Church Service at Keizersgracht Church
American pastor founder International Pink Church in The Hague
Church of Scotland gives space to gay and lesbian pastors
SPIRIT 24 - Increasing acceptance of gays.
The Voice contestant: 'I'm ashamed of nothing'
Wrangling over Songbook Festival
'That Yunus' foster parents are lesbians doesn't matter'
Openly gay leader Reconstructionist Judaism
Being able to be yourself in the Indian Neighborhood
Cardinal O'Brien admits 'inappropriate sexual behavior'
Diversity Parade in The Hague
Call to Cardinals from European Forum LGBT Christians
COC hopes for milder pope
Crowdfunding documentary 'The Turkish Boat'
Pastor refuses gay Prince Carnival host
Royal award for Glenn Helberg
Guide to helping Christian LGBT people
Pink Christmas at Amsterdam Keizersgracht Church
10 YEARS OF RAINBOW THE HAGUE
Groundbreaking book on gender-related violence
Dialogue day 'Religion, politics and homosexuality'
Dealing with homosexuality in counseling, church and school
Dutch documentary barred from festival after threats
Safety pact against discrimination
We Are Free conference in Amsterdam
Russian Church revokes baptismal recognition of Danish church over same-sex marriage
Hague refusal officer takes case to court
Pastor refuses baptism of baby lesbian couple
Threats to sailors of Turkish Boat Canal Parade
Pink Kwakoe at the Amsterdam Southeast Summer Festival
I want you! - catechesis method on sexuality
List challenger Christian Union preaches 'homogenous healing'
Playboy comes out with lesbian edition
Grant for Christian LGBT project 'Across the Border'
Launch of GSA Naturally Together
Lesbian.com auctioned off
Action against racism and homophobia during European Football Championships
EU publishes report on trans and intersex people
Gay-K at De Balie in Amsterdam
'Schippers' decision on Different does not reach far enough'
Pink Tournament in Nijmegen
American Conservative Jews recognize same-sex marriage
COC Amsterdam will continue Safe Harbor
App against gay bashing launched
Haarlem Pink City and HFC present Hollands Trots
University administration does not want to be associated with Pride
CALL: Color the Haarlem Canal Walk Pink!
LKP celebrates SILVER Jubilee
Seeing with one look whether someone is straight, gay or lesbian
Royal decoration for Gea Zijlstra
German cardinal sees room for liberal church vision of gay relationships
41 municipalities pick up local LGBT policy
First pre-conference Christian transgenders
May 19: Pink May Street Party in Nijmegen
Christian LGBT people from Europe gather in Amsterdam
COC Zeeland wins Zeeland Freedom Award
Ronald Plasterk opens 4th Transgender Information Day
Join the conversation about good help for LGBT youth in Zeeland!
Launch photo contest on double lives, sexuality & gender
'Argentina guide country for transgender people'
IDAHO - Nijmegen: Film about Iranian lesbian women
Pink Liberation Festival in Wageningen
Liberation Day and 25 years of the Gay Monument
End of differential therapy reimbursement appears to be in sight
Bi in Image - Minister puts spotlight on bisexuality
Conference European Forum Christian LGBT people
Gay men robbed via chat site in Zwolle region
Pink celebrations around Queen's Day 2012
Adopted child from partner mostly with two mothers
Discount on Orlando at DeLaMar for COC members
First pink closet in Dutch library
Van Bijsterveldt speaker at Commemoration of Gay Monument
Study afternoon of Working Association of Queer Theologians
Other Times on Homogenous Healing
Vatican intervenes with liberal American Nuns
Haarlem gets 'Pink Campground'
Parliamentary questions on gay acceptance in soccer
LGBT activists St. Petersburg sail along in Canal Parade
Limburg campaign against gay discrimination
Straight people stand up for gays in videos
Successful hand-in-hand action in Elst
Diversity in families, diversity in parenting?
Symposium Counseling and Homosexuality
Lithuanian bill bans sex change
Give your school a pink edge
Prosecutor demands 10 years in prison and tbs for murder of gay man
Bob Angelo ear award for Björn van Roozendaal
PRIMEUR - Boat LGBT people of Turkish descent at Canal Parade
German investigation into Catholic-fundamentalist site
CALL - PARTICIPATE IN EUROPEAN LGBT ENQUIREMENT
Lesbian parenting improved by 2013 at the latest
Meeting effective tool for gay acceptance
Cardinal Martini breaks ground for 'gay marriage'
2011: More reports of gay discrimination in Utrecht province
Bergen op Zoom - Another attempt at blackmail.
Exposition due to 25 years of Gay Monument
Journalism Council finds Spitsnieuws photo inadmissible
Bavarian church allows gay ministers to live together
'LGBT people should be able to visibly be themselves'
New website against school bullying
Belgian LGBT people stand up against racism and xenophobia
Peace run against discrimination
Aid worker Different transferred
COC wants immediate end to compensation for Different
Homosport Nedeland Foundation shows LEF
Christian gay organizations shocked by Undercover
Boys in RC Church castrated for homosexuality
Jubilee 20 years of Evangelical Pink Celebrations
Amnesty International and COC launch Pride Fund
SBS6 - Undercover on 'homogenous healing'
Presentation of first Connecting Differences Award
Schorer files for bankruptcy
Prime minister mistaken about blood donation
Reverend Gremdaat and Councilman Van Es open Pink Film Days
Pride Photo Award announces 2012 theme
Surrender your Gender - sense and nonsense of gender as a disorder
Utrecht gay man bullied again by same group after relocation
More recognition for transgender people
Pink Istanbul celebrates 400-year relationship Turkey-Netherlands
New law is milestone for transgender people
Collection campaign 'Pink Saturday Haarlem in the past'
Partially paralyzed after gay violence in Tilburg
COC maintains concern over Different
Minister makes case for women's/LGBT rights at UN
New project manager for Christian gay organizations
Pink love theme of Amersfoort church service
'Shame how KNVB deals with gays'
COC discount for Saturday Night Fever
Christian gay organizations get renewed funding
Valentine's Day: Jolande Sap presents Pink Sweetheart award
Dolly Bellefleur wins Roze Lieverdje 2012
The first Connecting Differences Award
Nuncio: 'Never taken to task by Verhagen'
LesBic Alliance presents 2nd series VISIBLE YOURSELF
Tot Heil des Volks recruits with books on 'gay healing'
'Feeling cannot be forbidden'
Key role of Christian gay organizations
Call for further research on Different therapy
Prosecutor demands 12 months in jail for anti-gay violence
'Imams disapprove of anti-gay violence'
Anglican leaders defend 'homogenizer'
COC award for Boris Dittrich and Maria van Oosten
Join research Helping Christian LGBT people
COC members get a discount to see Ute Lemper in Carré
'Homosexual intercourse hazardous to public health'
Lonneke Knegtel wins Mayor Dales Prize
European rabbis threaten action against Amsterdam
Address transgender equal treatment by law
COC wants end to reimbursement for 'gay therapy' Different
Chief Rabbi Amsterdam signs anti-gay statement
DEBAT - The contemporary face of homophobia
RefoAnders does not fully spend grant
Nomination Pink Lieverdje 2012 is open
complaint against SPIT NEWS
Gay couple gets bullied away again
Pope: 'Gay marriage threatens family and future of humanity'
Mayor Dales Lecture and Prize 2012
'Also allow gays at Ajax-AZ'
Labour Party Political Café on violence against LGBT people
Rotterdam: symposium 'The happy homosexual'
Media confirm prejudices about diversity
Start presale Kick iT Off Haarlem Pink Year 2012
Rotterdam youths terrorize gay couple
Start new season 'Out of the closet' with Arie Boomsma
Target grant for strengthening local LGBT policy COC Limburg
Pink Christmas service in Amsterdam
Lesbian women also victims of violence
Harvest after more than 10 years of homosexuality dialogue: talking works
Transgender discrimination ban possible in criminal law
Homosexuality and Islam, an exciting combination?
COC president VERA BERGKAMP is GAY ICON 2011
'Extra severe punishment for homophobic violence highly justified'
UN report on LGBT human rights major step forward
Amsterdam turns pink during fourth Pink Christmas
COC: 'Outcome of gay teacher case deeply disappointing'
Duran Renkema and reformed school apart
Budget LGBT empowerment multicultural circle in jeopardy
'Beating up gays in top 3 human rights violations'
Van Bijsterveldt supports European approach to LGBT hate violence
National interfaith meeting on homosexuality
Sharia4Belgium disrupts debate with lesbian Muslim woman
GSAs in schools of great value to LGBT students
Purple Friday against gay/transphobia kicks off in Zeist
Farewell Judith Schuyf, president Homosport Nederland
Ali Gay from Delft wins COC Song Festival
'Gay movement not yet retired,' says COC president
'PKN scribe misses the mark on refusal to officiate'
Bromet seeks bullied gay/lesbian couples for documentary
Weekend academy discussing homosexuality
ADVERTISEMENT: Gay education for Christian schools
Purple Friday against homophobia in schools
Mandatory education victory for LGBT youths
Van der Laan launches virtual exhibition Pride Photo Award
Transgender research by SCP
VVD: stop subsidies that inhibit integration
COC presents 100 gay-friendly organizations
COC wants mandatory LGBT education soon
TRANSGENDER MEMORIAL DAY 2011
Haarlem SAMS award for 'I am gay and I am muslim'
Second Polish disco night at COC Haaglanden
Gay-Straight Alliance Network launches gay-history.com
What is the future of Amsterdam's pink nightlife?
COC Zwolle - questionnaire acceptance and safety
Choose the LesbICOONingin 2011
COC makes Leers suggestions for better asylum policy
Gay movement exhorts cabinet to refuse officer
Calling Dolly Bellefleur: 'pink' visibility Dialogue Week
National meeting day for LGBT people with intellectual disabilities
Willem Jeths 'Monument to a Universal Marriage'
At least 34 cases of bullying away homosexuals already this year
TransGenderFestival in Nijmegen
Moroccan Council: 'Teach your children tolerance'
COC: Cabinet stance on refusal to employ officials incomprehensible
Hand-in-hand action in Eindhoven
Pride Photo Award for 'Good Old Gays' by Paul Koeleman
WOEST! - debate & play homosexuality migrant circle
Debate night "Emancipation Naturally!
Starting signal for Coming Out Day at Shell Pernis
17th COC Song Festival in Middelburg
CHJC organizes coming-out weekend
Theater talk show Pluijm! Reprise
Dutch companies seem relatively LGBT-friendly
Holland BiCon October 14-15, 2011
COMING OUT DAY in the region of ZWOLLE
Refugees take lead in tackling homophobia
Homosexuality divisive issue for Free Evangelicals
Call from Maureen and Duran Renkema
'People who are different are born sick!'
Coming Out Day 2011 - Hang the poster in your workplace!
Minister Van Bijsterveldt unveils Coming Out Day poster
San Salvator refuses Auxiliary Bishop Mutsaerts as pastor
Ombudsman wants cooperation with gay hotline
