Café de Vink
BarOpens at 4pm
A neighbourhood bar on Schoolstraat in central The Hague, drawing a regular crowd of gay men and their friends.
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The Hague occupies an unusual position in the Netherlands: a city of international courts, embassies and quiet civic authority that has never quite chased Amsterdam's reputation, queer or otherwise. Its gay scene reflects that temperament - unhurried, unfussy, and rooted in neighbourhood bars rather than anything resembling a district. What The Hague offers instead is a city comfortable enough in its own liberalism that visibility rarely requires announcement. Hague Pride, held in late summer, leans convivial rather than carnival, suiting a city that has always preferred substance to performance.
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