Homophobic and sexist graffiti has been plastered opposite the offices of a LGBT charity in Glasgow.
Police have launched an investigation after vile slurs were painted on a wall in Bath Street including ‘f**’ and ‘wh***’ in giant red letters.
Now Time For Inclusive Education (TIE) charity fears the disgusting insults will ‘normalise’ hate.
The charity works to combat homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools with LGBT Inclusive Education.
Today they hit out at thugs who left the graffiti and are urging others to ‘challenge prejudice’ whenever they see it.
Despite being first spotted across from the TIE HQ last week the paint has not yet been removed.
SNP councillor Angus Millar is now working with he group to have the messages erased.
Jordan Daly, co-founder and Director of charity Time For Inclusive Education said: “We were disappointed to see this graffiti across from our offices, and we are grateful to Councillor Angus Millar for working with us to remove it.
“We spend every day working to address prejudice against LGBT people and their families in Scotland, by tackling the bullying that LGBT young people still experience in our schools.
“We know through our work that prejudice against any community of people escalates – from the normalised use of slurs, to graffiti on walls, to people being excluded, to bullying and violence – and that is why it is so important that we all challenge prejudice whenever we see it.
“Unfortunately, graffiti like this is a further, and stark, reminder that we have some distance to go before people can feel confident walking the streets without seeing homophobic or sexist slurs written on the side of buildings.
“Any member of the public can report offensive or hateful graffiti to their Local Authority for removal, and we would encourage anyone who sees graffiti like this to do so.”
The charity supports schools to embed LGBT Inclusive Education – including LGBT history, role models, and equalities education across the curriculum.
TIE’s goal is to raise awareness, increase knowledge, and foster good relations through work with schools designed to tackle the prejudice and stereotypes which can lead to homophobic bullying amongst young people.
The charity works with teachers, provides free pupil workshops exploring anti-bullying and anti-prejudice, and develops curriculum materials.
Councillor Angus Millar said: “Homophobia, misogyny and all other forms of hate do not belong in Glasgow and this offensive graffiti is completely unacceptable.
“It is sickening to see disgusting slurs scrawled on our streets and buildings – this does not represent our inclusive city and it has no place here.
“I am grateful to TIE for raising this incident and to Glasgow City Council for their ongoing efforts to get this removed.”
Police Scotland said: “We were made aware of a vandalism at a premises in Bath Street.
“The matter was reported to police on Monday 17 May 2021.”
A council spokeswoman said: “We are aware of this graffiti which is on private property. However, due to the nature of the graffiti we are trying to gain access to have it removed.”
