A frightening viral video taken at a London bus stop has ignited new discussion over a string of hate crimes in the UK.
In the footage, a gay couple–who has remained anonymous–stands at a bus stop when a woman pulls up alongside them in a car, and begins to verbally harass them. Apparently she saw the two kiss just prior to stopping.
“You’re not going to be kissing your little boyfriend in the street, I’ve got a f*ggot son. You’re not going to do it. No, you’re not. You do that behind closed doors,” the woman hisses.
PLEASE WATCH: My best friend and his boyfriend were stopped by these women and verbally harassed for kissing at a bus stop in London, it scares me how backwards people are when we think we’re making progress on being a more open and accepting country ? pic.twitter.com/yRMlaqpkIy
— Rose (@rosiemusgrove) October 17, 2019
When the men refuse to apologize, the woman continues. “My son is not going to grow up like you to think it’s right to get stabbed in your *ss,” she says. “F*ggot boys,” she utters before driving off.
The woman in the video has yet to be identified.
Friends of the couple began sharing the video to bring attention to the growing climate of homophobia in the UK. This incident follows another hate crime, where a lesbian couple was verbally and physically attacked on a bus.
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C.U. Next Tuesday!
James
HOPE THEY GOT HER LICENSE NUMBER SO EVERYONE CAN SEE SHE IS A SICK NUT JOB.
Vince
Uk’s become a cesspool of immigrants from very hostile to LGBT countries. No doubt she or her parents immigrated from one.
rustyiam
The thought police here are not going to like that statement!
someone
Imagine being this bitter. And if you’re going to dismiss blatant racism as ‘thought crime’, perhaps you should take a second to think about how the homophobe in the video could use the same logic to defend her horrible views.
Apolodorus
As a person who actually lives here while being openly gay and an immigrant I can tell you that the rise in homophobia has nothing to do with whatever you mean by “migrant communities” but with the rise of the extreme right wing in the context of brexit. Homophobia is pretty well distributed here in s all communities. So go find another reason to peddle xenophobia and feel righteous.,
Will_London
You have a valid point and whilst I am pro-immigration there are some extremely entrenched – and dangerous – views on homosexuality in some immigrant communities. I certainly don’t feel safe in my city anymore. For Apolodorus to blame it on Brexit is utter nonsense. Do we suppose these two basic specimens of humanity wound down their windows and abused these two guys due to Brexit and the ‘extreme right wing’ (whatever that is – I think he / she means anyone who supports Brexit and you know, the desire to have actual controls on immigration, take back control of our laws and trade policies etc). No of course not. They are bigots and homophobes, plain and simple. If – and a big if – they are caught they will no doubt bring out the race card. In the UK, and in the UK press in particular, race trumps sexual orientation. Well done to Queerty for publishing this, so far I’ve only seen it covered in one UK gay publication. That tells you all you need to know. If the shoe was on the other foot, it would be wall-to-wall coverage.
Ronbo
Vince, can you hear that English accent? Perhaps you are just having a bad day and need to blame immigrants out of fear or ignorance or tRump. Certainly, no one is going to accuse you of being kind.
Vince
Ronbo
Maybe you didn’t hear me. I said she or her parents. At any rate, most live in their own ghettoized neighborhoods and thus bring the same culture with them. Guarantee her parents are from the Caribbean or some African country and we all know their views.
It’s not really that complicated and no need to be so PC about it. These people are homophobic to the extreme. You fill your country with that and you get what you get.
someone
Vince,
It’s amazing how you can’t see your own prejudice whilst attempting to call out the same from another bigot.
You made an assumption that she is an immigrant (or the child of one), and then presented it as a causation for her bigotry.
Let’s start with the assumption:
The only attribute you could have possibly used to assume that she is an immigrant is her skin colour. It is clear from the audio that she has an English accent, so unless you can provide me with another attribute that led you to your assumption, it’s perfectly reasonable for me to assume that you based your assumption off of her skin colour. This, itself, is not something that I’d consider to be racist. However, what you proceeded to do with the assumption is blatant racism. You used the assumption to attack an entire community (by describing it as a ‘cesspool’), and imply that the woman’s bigotry was a result of her (assumed) immigration status/ethnic culture. All of this from an assumption based on the colour of her skin. Do you see the blatant racism now?
Also, your point about culture is just another soundbite that we see and hear all too often from the far-right trolls. *All* homophobia can be associated to culture. And yes, that includes British culture, black culture, Caribbean culture, religious culture, etc etc. Bullies tend to employ this tactic to attack small segments of society by selectively highlighting this association when it suits them. The LGBT community are no strangers to this – we’ve been collectively attacked for diseases some of us have contracted, drugs that some of us have abused and acts of public indecency that some of us have partaken in. I’m sure the list goes on. Whenever the bullies want to make a small segment of society look bad, they look for something to attribute to our culture.
And finally, your point about being ‘PC’; What is political correctness? Is it trying too hard to not offend someone? Is it calling out people who are clearly displaying forms of prejudice? I genuinely don’t understand. If it’s trying too hard not to offend someone, who gets to define what ‘too hard’ means? There are some who would claim that opposing homophobia is a form of PC, where as others (like yourself, apparently) seem to believe that the act of opposing racism suffices. So does that mean you or I could be accused of being PC for calling out the homophobia in the video? Do you not see how the homophobic bullies can employ this same tactic against you? To me, it seems that the PC term is just thrown around by individuals who seek to dismiss anyone who calls them out for their abhorrent views.
Kangol2
Well, the British empire spread its homophobic cesspool of anti-gay laws all over the globe, from Asia to Africa to the Caribbean to North America, leading to the deaths and destroyed lives of countless people, including Britons themselves (cf. Alan Turing, etc.) so it has a lot to answer and atone for, on top of anything any of its current citizens or immigrants to that country say or do.
Hdtex
Vince is what happens when you let your toilet build up instead of flushing. Utter human garbage.
DawnTrans
Meanwhile her husband or boyfriend is busy with his rentboy or crossdressing boyfriend.
Man About Town
I worry about her son.
piriblue
I thought this thread was about the Homophobic bus attack. It has turned out to be something completely different. Racism. Regardless of the source we can all agree that it is wrong. We can’t simply attack one another and get off point. Reminds me when people just start swinging at one another and forgetting why they were here in the first place. Let’s grow up and address the actual situation without showing our own weaknesses.