The Hampshire festival, which takes place in August, received "hateful" comments to a post celebrating the start of Pride Month Boomtown Festival has said they will “blacklist” people from their festival after receiving “hate speech” comments to a post supporting the LGBTQIA+ community. The Hampshire festival, which says it is a proud supporter of “the diverse communities” that makes their event come to life, posted on June 1 to celebrate the start of Pride Month . However, it appears that the post provoked a number of negative reactions, leading to the festival saying it will take decisive action against the people behind the “hateful” accounts.
There is zero tolerance of any type of hate speech at Boomtown. We are taking steps to blacklist anyone we find spreading hateful messages from coming to the festival. We want to make it very clear that anyone with this type of view is not welcome at Boomtown.
pic.twitter.com/Y4W4NAZB8O — Boomtown Festival (@BoomtownFair) June 7, 2024 “Recently, we encountered hateful comments on a post we shared celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community at the heart of Boomtown,” they wrote.
“We are deeply proud of our beautiful LGBTQIA+ crews, artists, performers and citizens and we will wholeheartedly continue to celebrate the diverse communities that make our city come to life.” “The kind of negativity we saw on Saturday goes against everything we stand for at Boomtown,” they continued. “We sincerely apologise to those wh.
