A gay man was beaten this past Tuesday night in the street in Amsterdam, and police believe that the incident was motivated by bias.

The NL Times reports that two men yelled at their alleged target as he was getting out of a streetcar on Kinkerstraat close to midnight on Tuesday night. They shouted “homo” at him, and he turned to confront them about it.

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That’s when the two men allegedly attacked him and beat him next to the streetcar.

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The men stopped when a bystander came to help the gay man, and they ran away. The men were gone by the time police arrived.

The 24-year-old gay man suffered injuries to his face and upper body but didn’t go to the hospital.

Police are asking for witnesses to come forward and are investigating the incident as a possibly motivated by anti-gay bias.

“Being assaulted, discriminated against, insulted, and [harmed] because of your origin, orientation, religion, gender, or any other grounds is something that is unacceptable and something that is not allowed in the Netherlands at any time,” the police said in a statement.

The Netherlands is one of the most progressive countries in the world for LGBTQ+ people. Recent polls show that 90% of people in the Netherlands support marriage equality, and the country was the first in the world to offer it nationwide in 2001. Trans people have had the right to correct the gender markers on their official documents without surgery since 2014. The country also allows for birth certificates to say that the gender of a child “cannot be determined” when a newborn is intersex.

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