Oh, he’s gay? See, it’s so much a non-issue here that I dunno why this is even a news headline.
It’s news because in American culture having a gay president would be incredibly progressive.
Edit: he’s young and good looking too :)
To me, as an American, having a young president might even be more newsworthy.
We don’t know what presidents do behind closed doors. What I do know is what some of that demographic that I know has done behind closed doors, and let’s just say I’d be shocked if any future president was truly the first one to be gay (or at least not completely straight).
As far as NL goes, I love it there. Genuinely nobody I interacted with cared at all how you identify. They just want to get it right. I think the biggest issue I’ve seen there is regarding transgender people, but the scale isn’t even on the same planet as it is in the US, and reaching that point would be a monumental milestone here worthy of a national holiday.
We’re not quite out of the woods yet. They did suffer big losses, but that just means they’re tied now in number of seats. The left wing party is slightly ahead in votes though.
There’s still the votes from emigrants to be counted, so that could still change.
And I don’t see any easy viable coalition. Good old polderen.
The fact that the far right candidate was standing up to LGBTQ+ rights speaks louder than anything to me. I already loved NL, and this just cements it.
Shame I’m an entire ocean away or I’d be there all the time.
If you’re talking Wilders, he only cares about homophobia when it involves Muslims
Still wildly different than here where people just campaign on hatred and get people to vote for them.
What do you mean standing up to LGBTQ+ rights?
Defending. It says in the article what I’m referring to, since that’s all the context I have on this.
Standing up to, or standing up for?
What I’m trying to figure out because their other comment sounds like they are pro rights.
Love the Netherlands, spent quite some time working in Leeuwarden and I really enjoyed it.
