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In New York for the UN General Assembly, the Netherlands' first openly gay prime minister paid tribute at the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. His message to Dutch reporters was less celebratory: acceptance among young people in the Netherlands is falling fast.
Rob Jetten pointed to organized extremist groups and the far right instead of naming any one religion as the driver of rising anti-LGBTQ+ hostility in the Netherlands. Conservative critics say he's dodging an uncomfortable truth.
Prime Minister Rob Jetten joined the boats on Amsterdam's canals this weekend, a first for a sitting Dutch head of government, and used the moment to announce concrete follow-through on the country's Rainbow Ballot Agreement.
As WorldPride fills Amsterdam this summer, the Netherlands is marking a quarter-century of marriage equality with an openly gay head of government for the first time. Here's what the moment actually means — and where the work still is.
Rob Jetten, 38, became the Netherlands' first openly gay prime minister in February — a milestone that felt less like a revolution and more like an inevitability.
