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Belfast Live
Belfast Live
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Sophie McLaughlin

Belfast man on his 'peaceful counter' to street preachers on behalf of LGBT community

A Belfast man has said he has been made to feel "oppressed and intimidated" by preachers in Belfast city centre using sound systems to speak on homosexuality.

After an encounter with a preacher discussing homosexuality in a "targeted and aggressive" manner while on his lunch break, Brian decided to launch a "peaceful counter" for those in the LGBT community.

Speaking to Belfast Live, Brian said: "I was working in the city centre at the time and during one of my shifts, I was walking past and had a rainbow lanyard on with my work pass on it. As I went past, a preacher yelled through the mic that 'the LGBT are a cancer to society'.

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