A participant waves a rainbow flag during the annual Canal Parade at Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, Saturday Aug. 3, 2013. Rainbow flags are flying from scores of buildings as tens of thousands of festival-goers, many dressed in pink or wearing studded leather, party it up at one of the city's biggest events: the annual Gay Pride celebration. (AP Photo/Margriet Faber)

UPDATE -- June 19: The proposed "gay village" in Tilburg, Netherlands, was an elaborate hoax orchestrated by a Dutch gay rights group to raise awareness about the violence that the LGBT community faces in the country, per new reports.

According to NLTimes.nl, the Roze Maandag foundation -- the organizers behind Pink Monday, a pride event held in Tilburg every summer -- was behind the hoax. "All we wanted was to create awareness, and we are certain that we succeeded in this,” the organization is quoted as saying.

The earlier report continues here:

A real estate developer in the Netherlands reportedly wants to build a village specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals.

Citing a report in local paper Brabants Dagblad, English-language news site DutchNews.nl writes that there are currently plans in the city of Tilburg to build a gays-only neighborhood, which is being touted as a safe space for LGBT individuals to live. Dutch real estate developer Blauwhoed is said to be behind the idea.

Last year, the country's Central Bureau for Statistics released a report stating that 30 percent of lesbians and 22 percent of gay men felt "unsafe in their own neighborhood" in 2012. The same report said that homosexuals were "more often victims of crime" than bisexual and heterosexual individuals.

The mayor of Tilburg, Peter Noordanus, has welcomed the idea of a gays-only village, according to DutchNews.nl. However, not everyone is quite so enthusiastic.