MERSEY BEATINGS

On Saturday November 21st hundreds of people joined a break-away anti-homophobia march in Liverpool, hitting the main streets instead of skulking around the side alleys.

The Council, worrying that the centre of the city was too busy with Christmas shoppers, tried to forced the poor sods on the authorised march to keep a low profile.

Not surprisingly, the marchers got a taste of curdled eggnog in their mouths so they decided (in their words), to “come out of the closet” and “onto the streets”.

The police gave the marchers a jolly good ticking off, saying, “This will spoil everything.” Just shows how in touch the filth are with public anger about recent homophobic attacks in the city and sectors of the mainstream media.

Gay Liverpool councillor Steve Radford said, “It was great to walk through the main shopping area of the city and show that gays and lesbians will not be treated as second-class citizens in our city, and that an injury on one is an injury on all of us.”

Another councillor who came out very recently told how she’d faced an onslaught of homophobic abuse and had been considering leaving the city until she saw the large turnout of people supporting the rights of the LGBT community.

Gay teenager Michael Causer was murdered by teenagers in the summer and ‘out’ trainee Merseyside Police Constable, James Parkes, 22, was left fighting for his life after a beating last month.

These are only a couple of the recent vicious attacks on the LGBT community in Liverpool.

Many of these homophobic thugs are in their early teens, like those who attacked a young man on Lord Street last week.

LGBT rights group Stonewall says attacks on the LGBT community are rising across the UK, and that one in five lesbian and gay people experienced a hate incident in the last three years.