In the early hours of Thursday morning (17 June), Josh Ormrod was attacked by a stranger in Liverpool’s Concert Square as he left a nightclub.
The incident occurred after Ormrod danced outside the club with a friend, which led to his attacker hurling homophobic slurs and leaving him “battered and bruised”.
Recalling the incident on social media, Ormrod said a “complete stranger attacked me based purely on the fact that I am straight” and that the attack was “unprovoked and completely random”.
He wrote: “I’ve no idea who the man is, or if/how he knew me. It was broad daylight on a busy street. I’m not posting this for sympathy – I want it to be used as a warning.