A gay stage performer was horrifically abused by another man at a petrol station because he was wearing flamboyant clothing.
Brendan de la Hay said he was filling up at a Sydney service station when the other motorist started hurling homophobic insults.
The cabaret singer was called a ‘f**king f***ot’ and a ‘gay c**t’ as the tirade continued after he finished paying for his fuel and walked towards his car.
A gay stage performer was horrifically abused by another man (pictured) at a petrol station because he was wearing flamboyant clothing
Mr de la Hay then started filming the man as the man taunting him aggressively asked what his problem was and why he was filming.
‘My problem is you called me a fag,’ he said, before the other man – now also filming – replied: ‘I didn’t call you a f***ing f**’.
However, when Mr de la Hay asked him what he actually called him, the man said: ‘I called you a f***ing gay c***, you’re a f***ing f** go burn in hell.’
‘Yeah good, I’m highly aware of that,’ Mr de la Hay responded dryly.
The abusive man then challenged him to report the incident to the police or media because they ‘wouldn’t support you’.
Mr de la Hay (pictured) then started filming the man as the man taunting him aggressively asked what his problem was and why he was filming
He was called a ‘f**king f***ot’ and a ‘gay c**t’ as the tirade continued after he finished paying for his fuel and walked towards his car
He then appeared to threaten to injure Mr de la Hay if he didn’t ‘get out of his face’.
‘F**k the cops and whoever you’re going to send that to,’ he said after bizarrely sitting down to the let Mr de la Hay film him some more.
The costume designer later told Seven News he was desensitised to abuse because he dealt with it his entire life, but that this incident was ‘particularly aggressive’.
Mr de la Hay said he started filming everyone who abused him in public after a similar incident in Pott’s Point last week.
He said he proudly wore colourful clothes in public but many of his friends were too scared to lest they face the same abuse as him.
‘My close friends are spectacular performers but they hide, they dampen themselves throughout the day,’ he said.
Mr de la Hay said he started filming everyone who abused him in public after a similar incident in Pott’s Point last week.
He said he proudly wore colourful clothes in public but many of his friends were too scared to lest they face the same abuse as him.
‘F**k the cops and whoever you’re going to send that to,’ he said after bizarrely sitting down to the let Mr de la Hay film him some more
Mr de la Hay blamed the gay marriage postal vote for stirring up hatred and didn’t understand why people felt then need to abuse others.
‘I was just filling my car up with petrol – I’m not affecting the person at all and they think they get to have an opinion,’ he said.
‘Focus on yourself and think about your life , mine doesn’t affect you.’
‘[This is] what happens when the government gives the entire country to vote on the legislation.
‘It’s dangerous because it’s opened the door to let people think they can vote on anything and have an opinion on anything.’