Background: Worldwide, everybody knows that Amsterdam is the gay-capital of Europe. Gays from all over the world come to our country to celebrate their sexual orientation with other gays. But are the Dutch people as tolerant as we all think they are? When gay people have to go to a hospital for psychiatric care, do they get the same approach as heterosexual people? How do nurses react on the sexual orientation of their psychiatric patients? How do nurses tend to act, during the nursing treatment, once they found out that their patients are gay?
