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Owners of Amsterdam s Spijker Bar, Steven Koudijs (left) and Tomas Adamer (right) are fundraising to save the bar. (Photo supplied) Amsterdam‘s oldest gay bar, Spijker Bar, has renamed itself IKEA to raise awareness of the financial difficulty faced by the hospitality industry during lockdown, while large stores have been able to stay open. The owners Steven Koudijs and Tomas Adamer said they didn’t change the name to avoid the restrictions, but to highlight the struggles they were facing during lockdown. Koudijs told PinkNews: “The Dutch government decided yesterday (21 January) that there will be some kind of compensation of rent and staff costs, to be applied for as of May 2021, compensating from January 2021 onwards. That is fairly late, we are already closed since mid-October 2020. ....