De LHBT History Tour gegeven door Henk is hervat. Er zijn tickets tot maximaal vijf personen beschikbaar.
Geniet van twee uur wandelen in Amsterdam en een boeiend verhaal over Amsterdam en 400 jaar homo/lhbt emancipatie.
Pride Week Amsterdam, gedurende corona tijden zijn tickets beschikbaar voor Euro 17,50
En zijn nog tickets voor Vrijdag en Zaterdag.
Pride Week, Special Amsterdam Tours will be resuming tours according to guide lines of the government. In tours we will be separated 1.5 meters.
We look forward in welcoming you back. Stay safe and healthy.
Pride Week Amsterdam, take the LGBT Gay History Tour...
For something special and different you come to Special Amsterdam Tours, the only gay lgbt tour company in Amsterdam. LGBT History, art in the Rijksmuseum with some gay dressing, Royalty! Yes, Dutch Queen and Kings (real ones) and others. Just ask, we know Amsterdam.
Reviews:
" Terrific Tour, great guide",
"Henk is a walking library", "educational and fun",
"informative and entertaining, not just for gays",
"excellent tour and friendly guide",
"Henk is a fountain of knowledge",
"you will see a great hidden history of Amsterdam",
"Fabulous walking tour".
Tour given for KLM network Over the Rainbow (click for video)
Click on the tripadvisor logo for more reviews... tickets below...
GAY LGBT History Tour: 400 years of gay lgbt history and gay icons. 
Amsterdam as front runner in GAY LGBT rights in the world. Now on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 1 pm.
Standard in English, also available in Dutch, German and Spanish but on request and minimum participants. Please ask for more information.
Duration 2 hours
Euro 15,--
Art and culture tour : at the Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum and its art collection is one of the most spectacular in the world...
The Dutch Masters explained by Henk, a walk through the museum with some gay dressing.
Duration 2 hours
Euro 35,- (you will have to purchase yourself the entrance ticket for the museum Euro 17,50)
Combo ticket tour Rijksmuseum + LGBT Gay History Tour
The Rijksmuseum and a walking tour starting at the homo monument. On Saturdays only.
Duration 2 times 2 hours. From 11 am to 1 pm and the second tour from 3 pm till 5 pm
Euro 60,-- (you will have to purchase yourself the entrance ticket for the museum Euro 17,50)
Amsterdam & the Royal Family
200 years, 4 kings and 4 queens… Get the drama, Dutch history, Bi-sexual kings, jewellery robberies, the Russian blood in the family, the immense popularity of the Orange Nassau family explained with all the juicy bits.
Duration 2 hours
Euro 35,--
Historical Walking Tour of Amsterdam
Between canals, churches and a palace, the history of Amsterdam...
Duration 2 hours
Euro 35,--
Tales of Amsterdam
Stories about the city
Stories and tales about the city. Things to do, places to go, people to meet. Amsterdam has been a magnet for centuries and has not lost his charm. Special Amsterdam Tours has been in Amsterdam for 30 years and we want to give you our experience, dreams and thoughts about the city we love.
Eberhard van der Laan… the mayor of Amsterdam...
As a member of the gay community it is very rare to find a straight man to stand in front of us. To fight our cause for us.
Only recently I was told by a modestly known Dutch actor to get fucked as I was to uptight according to him.
I thought that was the equivalent of telling a woman to get fucked or raped, cos she did not do what the straight man liked. So I asked him if he was a homophobe.?
But as he told me he was not homophobic as he had not one, not two but three gay friends. Really? I am lost with words.
But thank God not all straight men are as petty and childish as this actor that has to get by, by doing commercials.
In 2014 Russian president Poetin visited Amsterdam celebrating 400 years of relations with the Dutch. In the 17th Century Tsar Peter the Great had visited the Dutch Republic and had taken inspiration from it to modernize his country. Hence St. Petersburg is inspired by Amsterdam.
This was around the time that Poetin introduced the anti gay propaganda laws.
Poor Russians, reading or seeing gays might make you gay. So a new law was introduced. The Dutch abolished such a law in 1971 in the Netherlands.
During a dinner that was offered to the Russian president in the Maritime museum in the presence of then Queen Beatrix. The mayor could not be at the dinner of president Putin because of prior engagements but he did not seem to mind that.
The lgbt community got together on the bank of the river and screamed as loud as we could, in order to be heard by Poetin.
Another day on the Museumplein we listened to the speech of mayor Eberhard van der Laan.
The mayor was wearing the rainbow chain around his neck, for the first time worn by mayor Patijn during the opening of the Gay Games in Amsterdam in 1998. This gesture alone was touching.
Walking around the large square where the Ballet Russe was performing. I run in to the mayor.
I walk up to him and thank him for what he has done, while he holds my hand and looks at me and then my friend Dick. He says the never forgotten words “ I do it for you”
Only later do I realize that he thought Dick and I were a gay couple and although I love my friend Dick very much. He is also very straight and married.
Protocol dictated that the mayor was the host for the Russian president during the dinner at the Maritime musuem. However urban legend has it that the mayor had made up an excuse not to be present at the dinner with the Russian president and the Queen.
Instead he sent his deputy elderwoman Olongron. An openly lesbian woman married to another woman with children.
Question is did the Russian president know that he shook the hand of an openly gay woman?
It is a wonderful thing to realize that a straight man in his position did not just utter political correct words but watched over his LGBT in his city.
Sadly Mayor Eberhard van der Laan has passed away but he is not forgotten.
The future of tourism, Henk, your LGBT tour guide speaks out in this Podcast
Henk on tourism, by the Low Season podcasts.
The Gay Pub Quiz
Wanna get to know more about LGBT History in a fun way. Henk presents the Gay Pub Quiz.
Gezelligheid kent geen tijd, de Gay Pub Quiz van Henk geeft je inzicht in je gay geschiedenis en is leuk en entertaining. Voor feesten en partijen. Speciaal voor jouw gay wedding. Breek het ijs tussen de gay and biologische familie.
Neem contact op voor meer informatie
Tales of Amsterdam
Stories about the city
Stories and tales about the city. Things to do, places to go, people to meet. Amsterdam has been a magnet for centuries and has not lost his charm. Special Amsterdam Tours has been in Amsterdam for 30 years and we want to give you our experience, dreams and thoughts about the city we love.
Eberhard van der Laan… the mayor of Amsterdam...
As a member of the gay community it is very rare to find a straight man to stand in front of us. To fight our cause for us.
Only recently I was told by a modestly known Dutch actor to get fucked as I was to uptight according to him.
I thought that was the equivalent of telling a woman to get fucked or raped, cos she did not do what the straight man liked. So I asked him if he was a homophobe.?
But as he told me he was not homophobic as he had not one, not two but three gay friends. Really? I am lost with words.
But thank God not all straight men are as petty and childish as this actor that has to get by, by doing commercials.
In 2014 Russian president Poetin visited Amsterdam celebrating 400 years of relations with the Dutch. In the 17th Century Tsar Peter the Great had visited the Dutch Republic and had taken inspiration from it to modernize his country. Hence St. Petersburg is inspired by Amsterdam.
This was around the time that Poetin introduced the anti gay propaganda laws.
Poor Russians, reading or seeing gays might make you gay. So a new law was introduced. The Dutch abolished such a law in 1971 in the Netherlands.
During a dinner that was offered to the Russian president in the Maritime museum in the presence of then Queen Beatrix. The mayor could not be at the dinner of president Putin because of prior engagements but he did not seem to mind that.
The lgbt community got together on the bank of the river and screamed as loud as we could, in order to be heard by Poetin.
Another day on the Museumplein we listened to the speech of mayor Eberhard van der Laan.
The mayor was wearing the rainbow chain around his neck, for the first time worn by mayor Patijn during the opening of the Gay Games in Amsterdam in 1998. This gesture alone was touching.
Walking around the large square where the Ballet Russe was performing. I run in to the mayor.
I walk up to him and thank him for what he has done, while he holds my hand and looks at me and then my friend Dick. He says the never forgotten words “ I do it for you”
Only later do I realize that he thought Dick and I were a gay couple and although I love my friend Dick very much. He is also very straight and married.
Protocol dictated that the mayor was the host for the Russian president during the dinner at the Maritime musuem. However urban legend has it that the mayor had made up an excuse not to be present at the dinner with the Russian president and the Queen.
Instead he sent his deputy elderwoman Olongron. An openly lesbian woman married to another woman with children.
Question is did the Russian president know that he shook the hand of an openly gay woman?
It is a wonderful thing to realize that a straight man in his position did not just utter political correct words but watched over his LGBT in his city.
Sadly Mayor Eberhard van der Laan has passed away but he is not forgotten.
The future of tourism, Henk, your LGBT tour guide speaks out in this Podcast