Pink Christmas

Amsterdam hosted a Christmas celebration for its gay community featuring a nativity tableau with a male Mary in drag that church organizations denounced as an affront to traditional values.

Organisers said the event was meant to raise Amsterdam's profile as a gay capital at a time when homosexuals feel threatened.


Drag queen Miss Wendy (C) dressed as the Virgin Mary holds a doll with other unidentified gay men in a take on the Nativity scene in Amsterdam December 21, 2008. The Nativity scene is part of Pink Christmas Amsterdam, which is hosting its first "Pink Christmas". A gay Christmas market has also been set up, selling sex toys, underwear books and paintings.