#13 Gay Expats Amsterdam

YouAreIncluded: we do rainbowwashing! We wash away the heteronormative brainwash with our own rainbowwash.

Pinkwashing has a negative connotation. But what is actually wrong with the desire to wash everything pink? It’s just that pink doesn’t feel fully inclusive. So what if you want to be inclusive for everyone? You have to unite all the colors. Nature unites all the colors in the rainbow. And rainbow happens to be our favorite color. Because the color rainbow has all the diversity in itself.

According to a recent article in Het Parool, Queer people need a dressing room in Amsterdam’s most popular nightlife street. This to change into their nightwear and back to be able to be safe in the streets. How inclusive is our society if people have to dress heteronormative in public?

Let’s start with the rainbowwashing of society, but now let’s do the REAL rainbowwashing! Let’s wash the streets, ourselves, our environment, our clothes, people’s heads, everything! So we can live in a world where everything is rainbow colored and queer people can be themselves and dress the way they want and feel safe in all the streets and alleys!

Put the heteronormative world in our queer washing machine!

Gay Expats Amsterdam feels like a fish in water by having found its place in the melting pot of Amsterdam with more than 120 nationalities. Our members have all flocked to their beloved city from around the world to celebrate the shared values of freedom, openness and tolerance in this small cosmopolitan.