Aged 15 2022 When I was walking to my boyfriend’s house for the first time a man with his top off on a bike started to look at me across the road smiling. I smiled back but he must have taken that for something else and he rode his bike behind me for a minute and then went in front...
Aged 15
2022
When walking back from high school in my school uniform a man pulled up next to me and started to wolf whistle and was trying to get me into his car.
Aged 16 2017 My younger male friend was (thankfully) walking me home through Hope Street Park in the later evening. We saw an older man in the middle of the park must’ve been late 30s at the time with a girl who I knew and was 16. He was stood over her and she was almost unconscious on...
2020-2023 I have had numerous occasions where I’ve felt uncomfortable and not safe because of males in this bar. One of the times a guy turned round and went ‘I’m going to fuck you tonight’ while grabbing my arm even though I had said no leave me alone multiple times. There have been a...
2018 Aged 34 I was a member of staff and I was washing my hands in the toilets, when two drag performers from Funny Girls blocked my exit, not letting me leave until I looked at the drag DJ’s penis. Reported to management who found it funny with a reply like, ‘Who hasn’t seen it?!’ More...
Aged 36 26th May 2023 I don’t think I’ve ever come face-to-face with such blatant misogyny as I did on this night. Not in my memory at least, although I’m sure there is plenty that I have buried. I met a guy on a night out who was a long-term childhood friend of friend. He was...
SB Aged 24 2023 Nobody was on the bus but myself and the bus driver. At the next stop from mine a man got on, that I was fine with, he sat right at the back of the bus. Again, that’s fine. Then out of nowhere he decides to get up and sit right beside me out of all the seats he chose...
Aged 36 6th May 2023 Stood outside a bar on Topping Street at 8pm on my own, I was approached by a man who asked me for money. I told him I didn’t have any but he kept speaking to me. He had an accent and I couldn’t make out what he was saying. He walked away after a few...
Aged 36 28th April 2023 Stood outside a bar on Birley Street a man approached me and several other women one after the other asking for money. I didn’t initially map this incident as I thought he potentially was in genuine need although it was quite intimidating as he came right up...
Helen, late 20s 2014 was walking alone in the afternoon. It was a nice sunny day in early summer, I felt safe at the time. I was ambushed by two men in their late 30s early 40s who ran right up to me asking me my name and shouting sexual harassment type things in my face. They’d blocked...
Aged 31 2023 Out with my wonderful friends, dancing and a guy grabbed my friend’s arse. She told him to leave her alone. He then made a grinding motion behind me. We moved away from him and informed one of the male bouncers who said he would keep an eye on him. The bouncer, we feel...
Aged 40 2023 In a group of four friends, all in our 40s, we went to ***** for a dance. Immediately we were swarmed by different men older than us who kept trying to dance, grind etc. We told them to back off but they kept coming, it was incredibly intimidating and the bouncers just...
Scarlett, Aged 23, 2023 I was picking up my son, who was 1 1/2 and in a pram, from childcare. We were walking down Penrose Avenue towards Vicarage Lane, and were approached by a guy on a bike in a full balaclava. I didn’t wanna look him in the eye because he immediately made me feel...
SSP, Aged 17 1993 After a night out – I was unable to stay at my friends house as planned. So her male “friend” took me to a hotel on New South Promenade, once I was there, he took me to an empty bedroom told me that I could lie down and he would get into bed with me. He was a lot...
Aged 23 April 2021 A guy in his early 20s appeared and went over to the corner of the parking space behind my house to pee. When I went out to question what he was doing and ask him to leave he yelled abuse at me and then offered to show me his penis when I was telling him what he was...