Ten Dutch Out Women You Need to Know

By Anna McFaith on Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 21:58

Oh my, community, how much do we love lists? Speaking for me, I think lists are some of my favorite things. If you’re like me and you have that unexplainable love for lists (and hot/inspiring/intelligent women), I have just the thing for you.

Before I begin with the list, let me take you through the selection process, because there were actually a lot of people to choose from. Now, I wouldn’t want to withhold you from getting to know every single out Dutch woman. Still, a choice had to be made because this is an article, not a book, and if I list everyone, I will be stuck writing this for a good month, while you guys skip over all the small letters to look at pictures of gorgeous women and no one comes out any wiser. So yes, there have to be rules!

Writing this, I limited myself to:

• selecting ten women
• selecting women who are out by their own admission
• including known and (relatively) unknown out women
• selecting no women who’ve had a portrait done about them on eurOut
• DIVERSITY!

And that’s it. My job is so easy.

Okay, now let’s get this show on the road! Ladies, in no apparent order and with gratuitous beauty shots, sit back and enjoy this totally subjective list of the ten Dutch out women you need to know!

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Pia Beck

Photo by Thijmen Hoolwerf

Who: Pia Beck
Profession: Jazz piano musician
Orientation: Lesbian
More information: Official website

Pia Beck is an amazing jazz musician who was born in 1925. After twenty years of life, Pia was asked to join the Miller Sextet as a singer and pianist. She toured Belgium, Germany, Sweden and the Dutch East Indies very successfully and, in 1949, started her own combo. She created the hit composition Pia's Boogie and decided to take over the United States, where she did yearly performances until 1964. In 1965, she moved to Spain with her life partner Marga Samsonowski, whom she'd met a good fifteen years before.

Pia is now 84 and still living in Spain. Her Marga, regrettable, passed away on June 1 2009. Our thoughts and best wishes are with Beck.

Miljuschka Witzenhausen

Photo from TMF.nl

Who: Miljuschka Witzenhausen
Profession: Actor
Orientation: Bisexual
More information: Miljuschka’s Hyves

This 24 year old gymnasium graduate became known to the Dutch people as a VJ for TMF, the Dutch version of MTV. She'd found her way there through the modelling agency she worked for at the time. She worked for TMF for over two years, most notably with Nikkie Plessen and Valerio Zeno on the Re:Action show. After leaving TMF in 2007, she joined the cast of Sound and ONM, one of the major Dutch soap operas.

In an interview with What's your flavour, a magazine published by a major youth initiative, Witzenhausen explains that while she's bisexual, she really only sees herself in a relationship with a man, although she did try with a woman when she was younger. I know, not the best bisexual representation, but can you really blame me for putting her in with a picture like the one above?