Brendan Courtney

Great to see you.

Yeah.

So we're weirdly kind of in a similar vein to the Me Too movement.

We learned to look over our shoulders.

As Panti said, we check ourselves when we're at bus stops.

What gives the gay away?

So we've come through school being othered.

So in my generation particularly, we're very used to feeling like that.

These are very familiar feelings.

There is just a general rhetoric we're seeing online of hate.

We're all very aware of that.

So anybody of difference is a victim to that right now.

And it's being, I suppose, it's weaponised verbally.

We're seeing it physically weaponised.

And as somebody who's been attacked twice on the streets of our city, and I'm not going to get into the details of that right now, but I've actually physically had it.

I look over my shoulder a lot more than I did.

I was talking to your lovely producer and I was sort of saying, you know what, I feel like we've been a bit quiet about it.

I feel like we should be sounding the alarm.

We're frightened.

We are frightened as a community.