2019
Aged 36
I was walking down Queen Street, and passed two men standing in a doorway. One said to the other loudly “I’d rape HER.”
2019
Aged 36
I was walking down Queen Street, and passed two men standing in a doorway. One said to the other loudly “I’d rape HER.”
Aged 39 2024 I was walking down Talbot Road in the afternoon and noticed I was being followed by a young man. He came right up to my ear from behind and started making strange noises. He was saying words but I couldn’t make out what they were but one sounded like it could have been...
RK, Aged 14 2006/7 Builders were working on the school on Church Street leading up to the Blue Room and I was walking into town to meet friends. I’ve always had a big chest and as they were high up they were staring down my top and shouting things about my chest and asking me to go...
Iz, aged 23 20th April 2024 I got out of a taxi with my partner. A group of men were walking past. One man was particularly loud, he walked in front of me and my partner, shouting at me about how I had ‘got my tits out’. He kept coming towards me until I had to physically push him away...
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...
Jess, aged 26 2024 When on a night out with friends I walked past a small group of people near the bar to go to the toilet, on my way past a man commented loudly “that ass!” I turned and confronted him and he became very defensive stating that he had been at a funeral that day as if that...
2024
Aged 42 and 5
Driver stopped and shouted abuse and swore at us for trying to cross the road in the dark and rain.
2024 Tamzin, aged 23 As a proud bisexual dating a proud pansexual man we’re no strangers to going into gay bars. For some reason I think people see me as a challenge. They see me and instantly label me as a lesbian they would like to “turn”. 2 different guys constantly approached me...
2022 Aged 18 I was a musician at this bar, I often had older men making sexual comments at me but the one I remember most distinctly was when I was performing on stage and a man turned to my boyfriend at the time, pointed at me and said ‘let me have a go’ insinuating that I was an object...
January 2024 Ages 25, 26 and 56 I was walking with my sister, mum and dad back to the car from having dinner. A drunk gentleman who we first thought was talking loudly but very incoherently on the phone as it was in his hands, was on the steps of the pub as we was exiting Deangate onto...
Nicole, aged 23 2018 On a night out, on the phone to my boyfriend and two very young men walked passed. One lifted my dress whilst the other slapped my bum REALLY hard that it set me off straight away. I started following them back with one heel in hand as they ran away. However a gang of...
Nicole, aged 30 2023 Just on my way to work and a delivery guy was going into a car with another guy. As I was walking past, he wolf-whistled and I remember hearing it but when it’s happened so often before you just drown it out and ignore it completely. However, because I ignored this...
Amanda, aged 47
December, 2023
Walking to work at 9.05 in the morning I was stopped by a man who said “I’m gonna fuck you real good”.
2023
Aged 44
Asked to whip out my top and bottom half completely unprompted when leaving a bar.
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...