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Netherlands set to get first-ever gay prime minister after far-right party suffers big losses
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The Far-Right really took off in the Netherlands under the leadership of Pim Fortuyn who was very openly gay.
Think about it: one of the first leaders of the modern Dutch Far-Right was openly gay and nobody cared to the point that he was politically very successful as a Far-Right leader. In which other country in the World would the Far-Right types be fine with their leader being gay?!
In my own personal experience (I actually lived there for almost a decade), the Dutch have the healthiest take of all when it comes to sexual orientation: it's all normal and in domains outside sex and romance treated as just about as relevant as people's eye color (i.e. pretty much nobody cares).
All this to say that from a Dutch point of view the sexual orientation of the prime minister being homosexual is irrelevant.
Beware of projecting the weird Anglo-Saxon viewpoint on sexuality and sexual orientation onto events taking place in a Dutch context.
One of the main leaders of the german nazi party is a lesbian, and her partner (wife?) is a foreigner. People will see this, and in their heads make up an explanation, labelling such people as "the good exception" to their rule. My neighbour has dark skin, and she keeps hearing this a lot. Oh, we are not against YOU, you are different. We just hate everyone who looks like you because everyone else who is like you is scum.
In the Netherlands, some in the far right actually are saying that foreigners (especially muslims) are anti-gay and therefore should not be a part of Dutch society or be deported.
Edit: I do have to say that they also say that women are suppressed by foreigners. And that at the same time, they do nothing to protect the rights of women and LGBTIQ+ people. Apparently, they are only concerned with that when they can use it against foreigners.