Cate’s story: no-one stepped in

During the Cuba Street Carnival, my fiancé and I were trying to find a way back to our place due to the streets in the central city being cut off by the parade.
We managed to get to Tory street and were walking up Tory, holding hands when a group of three young men started screaming at us that we were ‘f**king faggots’ (I am a trans woman and my fiancé is male). We ignored them, but they continued to scream abuse at us and things turned physical when my fiancé confronted them – they assualted him, breaking his nose and then they ran, leaving him gushing blood from his face on his knees in the street.
The police arrived pretty quickly, but the three men were never found and charges could therefore not be laid.
Sadly, while both the verbal and physical assualt were happening, no-one stepped in to intervene – however two wonderful young women did stay and comfort me while I was hsyterical with concern for my partner after his nose had been broken.