Terry and Ryan Hamilton hoped to find domestic bliss in Bothwell, Canada. They didn’t. Instead they found harassment and threats. After filing at least 30 complaints with the police, however, they reached their limit and moved beyond the town limits.
“Die fags,” was spray painted on the couple’s home at 341 Main St., sending a clear message they weren’t welcome.
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“There was no way we could stay, we were suffering such tremendous hate crimes,” Ryan Hamilton said. “They were doing everything they could to make our lives a living hell.”
Well, perhaps the towns folk were speaking German and saying, “The fags”. You know, just so everyone would know. Wait, that’s still gross. Not as gross as one resident’s reaction. Says John Dingman, “They were all about their gay rights and that. They didn’t have to keep on harping on it.” Oh, yes, of course! Gay activists should just shut their mouths and assimilate into a town that obviously isn’t interested in acceptance. We’ll make a note of that next time we find ourselves in an inhospitable environment.
John McLaren
Bothwell CANADA? It’s the second largest country on the planet. In which province is Bothwell located?
hells kitchen guy
Gee, I miss the Rt. Rev. with his “Canada is so superior to the US in gay rights” diatribes!
cjc
Ontario.
cjc
About 81 mi east of Windsor/Detroit.
WWH
HKG: I AGREE!!! HA!!!
Ian J UK
Reading between the lines, these two sound like heti-bashers, I think their treatment has more to do with them, than them being gay!
Gregg
@IanJUK – the article mentions a person saying that the couple brought the trouble on themselves by “harping” about their gay rights. That is heti-bashing to you? They brought on painted slurs and physical threats by talking about their gay rights?
Talk about blaming the victim.
megs
It seems like there is more to this story than is reported. I would like to know the background story for one. The town apparently didn’t have a problem with homophobia before they moved there (or did they and it was unreported–we don’t know), and now it seems like the hill-billy maw of hell has opened up. Someone should talk to the lesbians!
Ian J UK
That’s equal rights, not special rights, you act like a turd and you get treated like an turd, and you can polish a turd as much as you like, it’s still a turd. it’s not about blaming the “victim” it’s about living in a community as a member of that community, if you keep harping on about being gay and demanding YOUR RIGHTS! all you do is get up decent peoples nose’s, people who on the whole support us, We all know people who are forever going on about being gay, and being special and demanding special treatment. No! I don’t want any special treatment, I want to be treated the same as everybody else, if I act like a prat I expect to be treted like a prat, just like everybody else. and judging by the story that’s what they where doing, acting like prats.
Gregg
Please, wise Ian, spell out the “special” rights these men were “demanding” of “decent” people.
You’re comments are more revealing about your own self worth and need for assimilation than they are enlightening about this story.
Erin Ashburn
Well guys, i do appreciate your concern for what has been happening in my little town but as one of the members of bothwell i would like to set the record straight. The two people involved in this story have officially over done it. The aligations of harassment in this article are actually untrue and there is an investigation pending to find out why it was printed in the local news and then syndicated into three other papers in southwestern ontario. the reason the townspeople are upset with ryan and terry has nothing to do with the fact that they were a homosexual couple but because they have harassed the citizens of bothwell for months. After having a conversation with ryan and terry in late august i was convinced that they understood what was happening in town and that they were going to stop picking fights with people and instantly saying “you don’t like me because i am gay” .. i’m sorry to all gay people in the world for the things that were done and i wish that they could be fixed but putting a town into the group with one bad apple who did something stupid for attention and group the rest of us into a group of biggots i think that we actually need to get together with the gay community and figure out a way for people like terry and ryan to not make a mockery of them when the truth comes out and these two are finally held accountable for what they have done we need to stand united against harassment of heterosexual and homosexual people the same… just as it isn’t right for us to harass you its not right for us to get harassed i do appreciate what has been done in other forums to correct this injustice and i encourage you guys to help us out too its time we did the right thing instead of more wrong things
Erin – Bothwell Ontario Resident
montrealsimon
Hmmm…as I told Erin who left exactly the same message on my blog, I’m open to another version of this horror story. But until then I’m dubious.
However, if it does turn out to be the story of how two queens terrorized a small rube town I want the movie rights!!! Just the scene when the enraged citizens attack the house will be better than Dawn of the Dead. It would be SO original. BTW Erin….If the police say they have no suspects…but you say it was the work of one “bad apple”
How come you know more than they know?
Just wondering….
Ian J UK
What’s up Gregg? Cat got your tounge?