Aged 23 & 39, 8th February 2025 went to the bar, my boyfriend was inside I went outside for a cigarette & the door supervisor refused to let me in to get my boyfriend, I felt vulnerable outside this bar alone & needed my boyfriend, the doorman became verbally aggressive &...
Aged 20 I asked a group of men next to me to move up as they were blocking my view. One of the group started verbally abusing me shouting, saying that I should stand up so I could see. He stood over me using his physical presence in a threatening way. A few of the group joined in and it...
Aged 48 2024 I was standing downstairs on the bus waiting to get off at the stop when a male turned round and said hello sweet heart, I smiled at him and carried on looking straight ahead, he wasn’t happy that I hadn’t carried on talking to him. He then started to ask what was...
Under 30 2023 I am the daughter of a farmer and was brought up in the culture. You don’t know what it’s like until you’re in it and believe me, it’s gotten worse but how much of that is due to the industry we are in? My world is farming and I hate it – I suffered catcalling and...
E Ellis, Aged 52-53 2023-24 The incidents involved a male neighbour who has also been reported to the authorities for noise nuisance. There has been more than one occurrence. The first that I recall was some time before Christmas. My husband and I sometimes shout to each other from one...
Aged 30
2013
I was working at an establishment in Lytham square. A male customer was leering/staring at me for a while. He came up to me and said “You look like you’ve just been impregnated.” I still see this man about. He gives me the creeps.
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...