York couple feel forced to leave home after abusive notes

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1. What the fuck is wrong with people? Just let people get on with their lives.

2. >On Christmas Day the couple woke up to find a homophobic message written on their door in permanent marker and a bag of dog waste left on their door handle, she said.

   On Christmas of all days…. Some people are just fucking awful.

3. Worst part is, annoying neighbour #1 and annoying neighbour #2 are probably the same person. Sad.

   Edit: Annoyed neighbour. I automatically fixed it for them.

4. Very awful, but I find it interesting that the BBC version of this story is *very similar* to the local “[York Mix](https://yorkmix.com/york-couple-forced-from-their-home-by-appalling-campaign-of-homophobic-abuse/)” article about it – except the BBC have omitted a quote that is in the York Mix version:

   “*Then she went on an entire tangent about how in her culture it was wrong to to be gay, and how in her country it was a sin.*”

5. Yeah people really underestimate how homophobic the UK is

6. Some people in the UK are fucking deranged. They read the daily mail, they hate everyone who is different to them, they vote for Brexit, they make our country worse, they complain the country is worse and in reality, they contribute fuck, all. I wish they would all hurry up and die so we can get on with cleaning up their mess.

7. > we don’t like your kind round here

   Are they just trying to live up to the stereotype of backwards simpletons? Not even brave enough to sign with their name, cowardly reprobates.

8. You don’t usually hear about this, except on the grapevine. It’s entirely the luck of the draw whether you end up with good neighbours, bad neighbours, or the absolute worst of neighbours like this couple have.

9. What sane person gives a literal fuck what sexuality people are, oh they don’t. Only absolute weirdos care and think about it

10. Can’t believe it’s 2025 and some people still have a perverse, vulgar obsession of what goes on in the bedroom of two consenting adults.

    Sexuality isn’t harmful – objectively. What is harmful, is the deranged, psychotic obsession of something that is harmless to the point you have the urge, the choice and compulsion to become aggressive and angry, and cause psychological and/or physical harm to others because of what you “feel” is wrong. Abuse is a choice, not sexuality.

    Having this seemingly harmless couple as neighbours is what the world needs – not some angry little perverts hiding behind their beliefs and religion, getting angry over what other people do in their private lives, especially when it seems to boil down to sex.

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12. I think it is quite possible that the perpetrators are fundamentalist Christians of West African heritage. There is a very homophobic subculture within that community. In London, some attend churches that practise ‘conversion therapy’ that involves ‘driving out demons’. I have heard horror stories about NHS staff from that heritage mentioning ‘sin’ in front of gay patients or praying for them. The rhetoric of the anonymous notes and the actions described suggest this to me. If I am wrong, I apologise.

    Of course I must add that I have not experienced this directly, thank goodness, and I know several highly educated West Africans who are most certainly not homophobic.

    I mention all this partly because I fear that some readers will jump to conclusions and blame Muslims. I have many Muslim friends and colleagues who, again, are not homophobic and incidentally have for a long time been horrified by the sickening behaviour currently being discussed in the media and online.

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14. When people say that the attacks on trans folks are cover for regressive shit coming down the pipeline, they’re talking about things like this. Once it’s ok to target one group for their “unnatural” behaviour, it becomes more acceptable to target others.

15. Have we forgotten anything?
    Cookies for Santa? Check!
    Sherry for Santa? Check!
    Carrots for the Reindeers? Check!
    Water for the Reindeers? Check!
    Abuse for the lesbians? Check!

16. And this is exactly why we need Pride

    It’s also exactly why Pride is needed in non LGBT countries around the world, it’s crazy to me that companies happily change their logos to pride flags in Europe but mysteriously don’t anywhere else…

17. It would have been interesting if the reporter had sought the views of the woman who harassed the victim in the street.

18. What sort of depraved people harass people like this?

19. Crikey that’s awful! I’d consider York to be a very liberal and LGBTQ+ friendly place.

20. Can a regular person collect DNA from these and send off to a DNA ancestry service? It should point to the felons.

21. Don’t run away.

    Get a security camera on your letterbox, film the cowardly bigot.

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