Dutch LGBTQIA community amounts to 2.7 million people

Some 18% of the population of the Netherlands consider themselves part of the LGBTQIA community, national statistics agency CBS said on Friday, which is officially known as Coming Out Day. In total, 2.7 million people identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex or asexual, the CBS said. The figure is an estimate drawn from the CBS’s 2023 public safety monitor, which involved 182,000 respondents. The total figure includes 272,000 homosexual men and 106,000 women and 1.7 million people who...