What is sexuality vilification?
Vilification is different from discrimination. Where discrimination is about unfair treatment, vilification is a public act that incites others to hate you or your group (or have serious contempt for, or severely ridicule you) because of your sexuality. This sort of hatred can show up in a number of ways including through speech, graffiti, websites, and public abuse or media remarks. Example: • A political figure calls for all homosexuals to be banned from holding public office, because ‘they re child molestors’. He also encourages his followers to start a campaign to remove those already in public office ‘any way you can’. NOTE: It is a criminal offence, if either you and/or your property are threatened with physical harm.
