You may remember during the summer these stickers appearing in the City Centre. What I didn’t know until now, was that a complaint had been made to the police about these. I’ll be surprised if anything comes of this complaint.
“A complaint of homophobia has been made to Nottingham Police after a group of men were seen putting up anti-Pride posters which read Gay Free Zone in the city centre.
The stickers and posters were put up just before Nottingham’s Pride festival, circa 31 July, and a member of the public has now made an official complaint to police.
The complainant says: “…the sticker showed a rainbow flag with the text written across it, ‘Gay Free Area’ and a quote from the Koran which wasn’t complimentary.”
He added: “I’m not gay but found the sentiment extremely offensive, blatant homophobia I’d say. If stickers were going around saying Muslim Free Area I’m pretty sure there’d be one hell of a fuss made about it.”
A Nottinghamshire Police spokesman said: “We are aware that posters and stickers, which oppose homosexuality, were distributed among parts of Nottingham, prior to the Pride March … As part of our enquiries we have forwarded one sticker and one poster to the Crown Prosecution Service to establish whether this material amounts to a criminal offence.”
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