Pride in Liverpool to Continue After Homophobic Knife Attack
Pride in Liverpool have said they will continue on after a violent hate crime left a local gay man with serious injuries to his head and neck, reports BBC Radio 5 Live.
The man was knifed by three teenagers aged just 12 to 15. They chased him and another man down, shouting “homophobic insults” at them.
“The age of the people involved just hammers home that education is vital,”said John Bird, co-founder of the Liverpool City Region Pride Foundation, saying the attacks were “terrifying” and that LGBT-inclusive education must be implemented to prevent the rise in homophobic violence.
“All the leaps and bounds we have had in the UK—marriage and adoption rights and 50 years on from the Stonewall Uprising. You would think we were past all this.
“It’s terrifying… someone as young as 12 holding a knife and shouting homophobic slurs.”
Bird added that Pride in Liverpool will continue as planned, with the theme “come as you are”.
“We will continue with that message and shout down this kind of behaviour.”
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