	In 2007, he received death threats after supporting the idea of including a boat for adolescents at the Amsterdam Gay Pride. In 2014, Hekma co-created a petition addressed to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, pleading the Dutch Supreme Court to not ban pro-pedophilia association Vereniging MARTIJN. His support of MARTIJN resulted in death threats and an attempted burglary. Hekma has stated he is not a pedophile. He and his significant other, sociologist Mattias Duyves (1953), have been together for more than forty years. They met in 1977 and married in 2007. Both champion sexual and relational freedom.