COC

Detayenan

Liña di tempu di e Organisashon

COC begins as the Shakespeareclub

📅 7 Desèmber 1946

A reading circle linked to the magazine Levensrecht became the Shakespeareclub in Amsterdam, creating a durable organization for gay community life and advocacy under criminalization and social...

Article 248bis repealed

📅 8 April 1971

Parliament repealed a discriminatory criminal-law provision that had set a higher age of consent for same-sex relations between men than for heterosexual relations. COC and other advocates had...

Civil marriage opens to same-sex couples

📅 1 April 2001

The Netherlands became the first country to open civil marriage to same-sex couples. This legal change followed LGBTQ organizing and years of public and parliamentary debate; legal equality in...

Respect2Love supports bicultural LGBTQ+ communities

📅 1 Yanüari 2008

COC and partners create space for LGBTQ+ people of color, recognizing that inclusion requires attention to intersecting identities and community-specific needs. Source gives the year or month only;...