Colac mayor Brian Crook says his town does not have a homophobia problem following a report that a pack of young men threatened, abused and chased a gay comedian from the town after he addressed an anti-discrimination forum. Comedian Joel Creasey says more needs to be done to redress homophobia in regional Victoria.

The irony was not lost upon comedian Joel Creasey as he was chased to his car by a pack of angry young men yelling homophobic abuse and threats of violence following his stand-up gig at an anti-discrimination event in Colac.

Two men were asked to leave the function during on Saturday night and Creasey said he was later abused and threatened by a group of up to 20 teenagers while he and his friends left the event.

"I've toured the country, I've played a lot of regional towns, and I've never experienced this - and I do think Colac is a beautiful town... but it's now two for two, both times I've been there I've had a homophobic experience."

"You hear of the gay youth suicide rates, they are so high... I've been quite lucky and lived in the city and never had too many problems, but seeing this on Saturday, you can see why those rates are so high," Creasey says.

"Having that abuse yelled at you, purely for who you are and who you choose to love, that is just foul."

Colac Otway Shire Mayor Brian Crook said while the reports of homophobic abuse could not be tolerated, he believed his local media had overstated an incident and the scale of the threats and said Colac was no different.

"I did attend the event, and going by the times reported in the media I must have only just missed this incident. This was sparked by two individuals at the event, and those individuals were ejected."

"This sort of behaviour can't be tolerated under any circumstances, but two of these people out of 200, they were ejected and it's unfortunate that the media likes to grab onto these things and blow them out of all proportion," councillor Crook says.

"We've got to look at these things in the context of what's happened... two out of about 200, and they obviously had a few friends outside who joined in.

"The event was going for five hours, this has happened probably for 5 or 10 minutes... really when you take it on balance it's not a significant number of people, it's not like they were hurling bottles or knives at people - I'm not trying to justify what was said in terms of abuse because it's totally unacceptable - but I think in any group or any population group you're always going to get an element that will be coming up with unsatisfactory behavior, and we're no different than anywhere else in Victoria with respect to that."

Creasey said the mayor's views were disappointing and believed the town needed to address the behaviour and not sweep it under the carpet.

"And that why these people need to be pointed out and you can't just let it go. And it's sad that the Mayor just wants to do that. You have to point it out and you have to let them know their behaviour is wrong," he said.