"All you gay people are paedophiles.”

“It’s a good thing your father died, or he would have had to see this day.”

“You need to meet a real man. You will stop liking women once you meet me.”

All, things that have been told – like the sum total of the choicest abuses – and hurled at fellow citizens of the country from behind – you guessed it, the safety of someone’s computer screen. All, things that have been told to hurt, wound and traumatise an entire community.

Eleven people who received such vitriol on social media because of their sexual orientation and how they choose to identify, read out these messages on a mobile phone, in this video: