From the start we knew we wanted to include something about Brighton because they can be seen as the 'gay capital' in Britain with all the LGBT events they host. However, this does mean that they receive a lot of homophobic abuse and this is the sort of abuse we wanted to include in our documentary.
We did try to get in touch with Brighton & Hove Albion FC to see if we could meet them and film a football game but we were unsuccessful. We still want to include the abuse though so we have looked for stock footage to use and credit.
The first video we found was riots through the streets of Brighton around a piece of art across the famous Clock Tower by Finnish artist, Kaarina Kaikkonen, for the Brighton Pride festival. The piece is made entirely from old clothes donated by people in the city, called 'Time Passing'. The shock is the football fans shouting abuse about it! If they say bad things about a piece of art then the homophobic Brighton and Hove Albion get must be terrible. The crowds can be heard shouting "What the f*ck is that! What the f*ck is that? I want my shirt back, I want my shirt back". Maybe because the tops were rainbow colours which links with the LGBT community is why the fans we so offended by it and felt the need to shout abusive remarks.
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| Time Passing installation |
Watching the video, Jack and myself were shocked with how rude the fans were being. There was no need for the horrible words but they felt something should be said. The installation wasn't doing anything wrong.
Below is the video which we are going to feature in our edit to show how bad the abusive remarks can be in Brighton. This should also help our documentary show how bad homophobic abuse is still, after years of battling that LGBT people should be treated just as equal as everyone else.
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| Screenshot of youtube video
The second video we found was from an actual Brighton game and we see the fans shouting abuse down to the pitch and in some parts the stewards actually have to take people out because they are being so abusive.
Again, we were shocked at the remarks they were making and how horrible some people can actually be. Brighton FC was definitely a good shout because we never realised how much homophobia abuse there is around, especially as I personally never hear it being shouted.
I am very happy that we have thought to include this in our documentary as it really shows how far people can go. Our idea is to create little sub-titles with what they are saying as it is hard to hear. We are also planning to blur the videos with peoples faces in them because of confidentiality and their privacy.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaOWAPbndzA
- http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id_11510.aspx
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXu8ap0J-YE
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