{"id":17479,"date":"2022-11-24T10:46:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T10:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/11\/24\/lgbt-abuse-horrendous-but-not-uncommon-bbc-presenter\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T10:46:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T10:46:39","slug":"lgbt-abuse-horrendous-but-not-uncommon-bbc-presenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=17479","title":{"rendered":"LGBT abuse horrendous but not uncommon &#8211; BBC presenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Homophobic hate mail sent to former rugby referee Nigel Owens is being investigated by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Mr Owens, who came out as gay in 2007, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-63731181\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">said the note<\/a> was signed by a &#8220;steelworker&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">However, BBC weather presenter Owain Wyn Evans said such abuse was increasing and he had also received similar abuse, including a letter sent to his workplace as  recently as two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;The note sent to Nigel Owen is horrendous, but unfortunately this isn&#8217;t an isolated one-off incident,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-63736383?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Homophobic hate mail sent to former rugby referee Nigel Owens is being investigated by police. Mr Owens, who came out as gay in 2007, said the note was signed &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}