I'm so angry just reading about this. Cowards and bigots!

i drink in the village with my step bro-he's gay
we've rescued many a straight bird from a bloke and his 'bi girlfriend' who are trying to be 'friendly'
yep-shit like that happens lol

but my bro knows most of the people there-he points the 'odd' ones out

I've never had that happen thank goodness, but this bloke Saturday didn't care who he tried it on with, we were watching and laughing out the back in the smoking area, where the bloody heaters weren't working AND there was nowhere to sit!!

God does that shit still happen hard to believe i'm sorry but im glad i don't live in England anymore as much as i miss my family and mates and of course the bullring shopping, oh and the nhs yes we have to pay to see a doctor, and cheap food

believe-it happens
they try it cos it cheaper than ringing numbers for a swingers party lol

thats cos we all smoke-but labour thinks we dont lol

Tell me about it!!  There was more outside on the decking at the back than inside.

Love the place, don't go often, but wish there was more ladies loos - there's always a queue!!

wheres the villiage pub?

Bottom of Hurst Street, it used to be called something else, but can't remember what.

Not too far from the wholesale markets and the Arcadian car park.

in the olden days it was a blokes pub-they had to 'adapt'

my bro took me to the fountain one day/evening
now THAT place scared the living shit out of me-the toilets (men and ladies) you have to go through a 'dark room' to get there lol-i made him hold my hand to get there

I've never been there, used to go to the Joker a lot when we were younger and the Nightingale as well.

i used to go to the old gale

It is sad - and it makes me angry - that this sort of thing happens. Indeed, after subsiding it seems to be on the increase again.
Horrific what intolerant, ignorant minds can do.

I really hope they catch the bastards - all 20 of them - and throw away the key.

JESUS CHRIST!!! I am sitting here boiling mad. I'm afraid that if I was to vent my true feeling  I would be banned. That poor young man, I hope he recovers and that those effing, feral aholes are found and locked up.

It sickens and saddens me that we are still having instances of people being assaulted because of their sexuality.

I'm speechless too. Looks like we are heading back to the seventies, when basically you just had to be "different." I hope this is just a coincidence after Nick Griffiths said he found  gay people creepy.

Strange you should put that Joe, because those were my exact thoughts last night.

Wel people get too hung up about imigration and forget thatv the people he was knocking about with in the early 70's were beating up people for having long hair, the wrong fashions, being gay, as  well as having the wrong skin colour. I should know.

Scumbags. That is all.

Disgraceful, hope they catch the bigoted idiots who did it they must not get the message times have moved on but you always know some moronic and idiotic people will never change...

Update, the little bastards have got bail after this attack, the policeman remains in hospital.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/eng...rseyside/8327214.stm

I can't believe what's going on at the moment, what with pond life like Jan Moir and Nick Griffin calling homosexuals unnatural and creepy, and homophobic attacks on the increase. I really thought we'd left this sort of crap back in the eighties. I'm completely pro-free speech but when things like this happen it does make me wonder how much damage giving publicity to these vile opinions is doing.

Couldn't agree more

Are they actually on the increase?  Or just reported more now the police have been 'fixed' over their own attitudes?    At one point, it wasn't worth reporting it as victims were often treated very badly by the police for being gay.

There's still a lot of homophobia around.

i din think there was much homophobia but it mite not be violent all the time but i get more verbal stuff now than i used to

We're fucked.

There is no hope.

Not with our sentencing.

I read about this today and there is a sick aspect to these beatings.  This young Policeman might not make it.  It's horrifying to read that they stamped on his face and kicked his head, simply because he is gay.  Another gay man, in his 60s, was beaten to death by feral teenagers not so long ago. 

No wonder Quentin Crisp (RIP) moved to the USA, because he was being subjected to this self-same victimisation in the 60s-70s.  One wonders too if the same prejudiced and blinkered thinking regarding homosexuality really hasn't changed that much since Oscar Wilde's time, when he was sentenced to two years hard labour in Reading Gaol for being gay.  But that was nearly 113 years ago now, and things are just as blinkered and prejudiced today if this young man's life is in danger.

More arrests.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/eng...rseyside/8330097.stm

How can children of this young age know enough about life to know what they are truly doing? They have not got the life experience. They possibly don't have much brain-power either or emotional intelligence and empathy.
Have they picked it up from homophobic adults I wonder?

Children (or anybody for that matter) showing such hatred and intolerance is sad, sad, sad. It makes me so angry.

Absolutely!

Until kids are taught about homosexuality in schools, during sex education, there will always be some kids growing up feeling it is normal to hate it.

I hate the fact that the word 'gay' is now being used derogatively again. That can't help.

Thankfully he is now on the mend and has been speaking to his family

Understandably there is a big uproar in the area, with marches planned about this

what a sorry world we live in

As has been already said, the most worrying think is that it's kids again..just like that Panorama racism thing. Are we sitting on a lost generation of young people who think it's acceptable to treat anyone who is different in this way?

I do agree Blizzie.

(**brisket ponders about how nice it must be to be both wise and funny like Blizzie**)

*** ponders whether brisket could convince my kids that they should laugh at my jokes AND listen to my wisdom ***