When Joe Ingram made his way home from a friend’s 30th birthday party in Brixton last month, he made a conscious decision to take an Uber instead of the bus.
The party was cowboy-themed and Ingram kept his pink neckerchief and cowboy hat firmly in his bag on the way to the party, so as not to attract attention. But by this point it was 1am — just a fortnight after two men were stabbed outside LGBTQ+ nightclub Two Brewers down the road in Clapham, and a week since a second homophobic attack at a nearby bus stop in Brixton — and he had glitter on his face, so there was no way he’d be taking public transport.
