Boomtown seek to “blacklist” people from festival after “hate speech” against LGBTQIA+ community

nme.com:

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 who were targeted and to anyone and everyone who was affected.

We were angered and saddened by the hateful comments. There’s no place for that here.”“We have a zero tolerance on any type of hate speech and our team swiftly removed the offensive comments and blocked the accounts.