«The dog has detected that you are a fagot«, Said the guard to the victim

GAYLES.TV.- A young gay man has reported that a security worker from the Clot Market de Barcelona He has uttered homophobic and racist insults while queuing to enter. The events occurred last Friday, and have already been reported to the Mossos d'Esquadra and Barcelona's town hall.

The victim, an Ecuadorian man, was waiting to go shopping at the municipal market, but the security guard let a woman in before him. «Us first«, Has snapped. Minutes later he added: «you know that the dog has detected that you are a fagot«.

«It has been a racist and homophobic act«, Details the president of l 'Observatory Against Homophobia, Eugeni Rodríguez. "The security company must terminate the contract to this person«, Has claimed.

During the confinement, the entity has registered 13 discriminatory acts against the LGTB + group. «The majority of cases are insults, humiliations and harassment through social networks«, Explains Rodríguez. For example, the case of a boy who was insulted by saying that he was gay on an Instagram live. Another of the most prominent discriminations was a police action in which the agents addressed a trans man without respecting his felt identity.

Source: La Vanguardia, El Periodico