Crowbar attacks on bs spark safety fears Manchter’s gay village | Manchter | The Guardian

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• GAY VILLAGE
• SECURY STAFF SPEND AFTER CLAIMS MAN WAS BEATEN UNNSC BY FIVE BOUNCERS OUTSI CLUB GAY VILLAGE'I DIDN'T EVER THK I WOULD GO TO MY HOME TOWN TO BE BEATEN UP BY BOUNCERS A WELL-KNOWN GAY BAR'MENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYSOPHIE HALLE-RICHARDSSENR REPORTERJOSIE LE VAY20:01, 26 JAN 2022BOOKMARKRONAN GORDON CLAIMS THE ATTACK WAS 'UNPROVOKED' (IMAGE: RONAN GORDON)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• CROWBAR ATTACKS ON BS SPARK SAFETY FEARS MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE
• LGBTQ VENU ACCED OF EXTREME RACISM UK’S ‘GAY CAPAL OF THE NORTH’
• HUGE EMERGENCY SERVIC RPONSE NEAR GAY VILLAGE AS MAN RCUED AFTER FALLG OM BRIDGE TO NALPOLICE AND FIRE WERE LLED TO THE SCENEMENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYJAM HOLTREPORTER23:33, 18 FEB 2023BOOKMARKMULTIPLE POLICE VEHICL, AS WELL AS INCINT RPONSE UNS AND THE FIRE SERVICE RPOND TO THE CINT ON MSHULL STREET, THE CY CENTRE. (IMAGE: SUBM)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

GAY VILLAGE

Sce the start of the 1990s, the area around Canal Street, Manchter cy centre, has grown to bee one of Europe's most lively gay areas, now known as the Village.

The area has bee popular wh both heterosexual and gay visors and has one of the most vibrant nightlife scen the cy. A number of secury staff have been spend after claims a man was beaten unnsc outsi a club Manchter's Gay Village. Mr Gordon said he had been enjoyg a night out wh iends and his partner on the Gay Village when the cint happened.

SECURY STAFF SPEND AFTER CLAIMS MAN WAS BEATEN UNNSC BY FIVE BOUNCERS OUTSI CLUB GAY VILLAGE'I DIDN'T EVER THK I WOULD GO TO MY HOME TOWN TO BE BEATEN UP BY BOUNCERS A WELL-KNOWN GAY BAR'MENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYSOPHIE HALLE-RICHARDSSENR REPORTERJOSIE LE VAY20:01, 26 JAN 2022BOOKMARKRONAN GORDON CLAIMS THE ATTACK WAS 'UNPROVOKED' (IMAGE: RONAN GORDON)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

"I didn’t ever thk I would go to my home town Manchter where I spend a lot of weekends enjoyg myself to be beaten up by bouncers, a well known gay bar.

Safety fears are risg Manchter’s gay village after a shop’s wdows were smashed wh a crowbar for the third time six weeks what the owner has lled a “premedated, targeted hate crime”. ”Official figur show homophobic hate crim creased by 41% the year to March 2022 and transphobic hate crim by 56% – the largt proportnal rise of all tegori, which also clud race, disabily and relign.

There’s fely more homophobia and targeted abe.

CROWBAR ATTACKS ON BS SPARK SAFETY FEARS MANCHTER’S GAY VILLAGE

A uple of weeks ago, he was targeted wh homophobic language at a b past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotn“There are not enough police. There need to be more police patrols and more CCTV, ” he has creased patrols and circulated imag of the crimals, one of whom was ridg a distctive red said was too early to say whether homophobic hate was the motivatn for the crim but Ethan Barry, who works the Rem Bar on Canal Street, said people had speculated that the shop’s wdow posters of sntily clad men had been the reason the shop was sgled out an area full of LGBTQ+-owned bs.

Several LGBTQ venu the heart of the Gay Village Manchter, northern England, have been acced of racism and racial prejudice by people of lour.

Ten black, Asian and Latx people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr told VICE World News about racist cints wh staff and ctomers and around the cy’s Gay Village.

LGBTQ VENU ACCED OF EXTREME RACISM UK’S ‘GAY CAPAL OF THE NORTH’

Manchter is known as the “gay pal of the North”, wh LGBTQ historil landmarks fillg the cy. Manchter’s Gay Village is the regn’s ma area for LGBTQ nightlife, and is one of the olst and most tablished gay muni Europe.

On the 29th of July this year, Lucky Roy Sgh was told “get out you paki” by a secury guard at Via, a bar the Gay Village. The group of six was holdg a meetg the cy centre to discs some upg gigs, then cid to go out the Gay Village. Darren Jackson, 57, has spent several years gog out on the gay scene Manchter, and he says he has repeatedly experienced racism the Village.

Photo: Supplied“Racism is so real Manchter’s Gay Village. ”In another cint, Hiren Patel, a gay man based Manchter, told VICE World News that he had only recently started gog back to the Gay Village bee of “blatant racism” he experienced a few years ago, when he was refed entry to a venue.

HUGE EMERGENCY SERVIC RPONSE NEAR GAY VILLAGE AS MAN RCUED AFTER FALLG OM BRIDGE TO NALPOLICE AND FIRE WERE LLED TO THE SCENEMENBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYJAM HOLTREPORTER23:33, 18 FEB 2023BOOKMARKMULTIPLE POLICE VEHICL, AS WELL AS INCINT RPONSE UNS AND THE FIRE SERVICE RPOND TO THE CINT ON MSHULL STREET, THE CY CENTRE. (IMAGE: SUBM)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

Around three years ago, Patel was qug wh a iend outsi the Thompsons Arms, an LGBTQ venue Manchter’s Gay Village. ”Other experienc shared wh VICE World News clud a gay Iraqi photographer beg labelled a “terrorist” by bar staff when he was takg photos outsi of a Manchter LGBTQ venue. ” Another gay man, Kh Kumar had jt walked to New York New York bar, the heart of the Gay Village, when an on-stage performer ma a ment about his race.

There was a huge emergency servic rponse near Manchter's Gay Village on Saturday night (Febary 18) followg reports of a man fallg om a bridge and to the nal.