Cian Griffin said he faced the harassment over an outfit he wore on one day of the Electric Picnic festival in Stradbally
A man who faced homophobic slurs at Electric Picnic has said bystanders 'shook their heads' but nobody spoke up."People were calling me slurs; people were pointing and laughing at me," he said."One of my friends had a drink thrown over them, someone tried to start a fight with me."You'd expect it to be coming from younger, more immature people but I'm talking about adults," he said.
"In the moment, it was an eye roll for me - I'm 29 and I've heard a lot worse than fashion criticism over the years," he said. "There were bystanders that saw what happened - and some of them shook their head with disapproval - but no one really spoke up," he said.Cian said generally he feels society is regressing when it comes to equality."I can count on more than two hands the friends and people that I've met that have been physically assaulted because they're gay.
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