Promoter uses sexual assault news to promote club night
He shared the news story and told people to ‘get down’ to his night instead
A Leeds club promoter used a Tab article regarding a sexual assault to help promote their club night.
The event manager for ReWind at The Wire shared the Tab post regarding a sexual assault at Pryzm.
He used the post to try and convince people to go to the ReWind club night instead.
Within minutes of the post being up, a backlash meant the promoting section was deleted.
Women’s Liberation Officer and Equality and Diversity Exec candidate Emma Healey said: “As someone who has been sexually assaulted I am absolutely appalled that someone would use that trauma to promote a club.
“It’s in no way an acceptable thing to do and frankly I hope whoever decided to do this is fired.
“My trauma, or the trauma of anyone else, is not for people to profit off.”
The promoter responded by saying: “I shared the post to highlight my distaste for the venue, the use of this to promote anything was in bad taste.
“It was a careless thing to do and I am sorry for any unintentional grief that may have caused.
“It was in hindsight a stupid thing to do, unfortunately I am only human and mistakes are made. All I can say is sorry.”
Taking Liberties have distanced themselves from the post, saying: “It is disrespectful and out of order and should never ever happen.”
They continued: “The person responsible whether he knows it yet or not, has been fired and will have absolutely nothing to do with us anymore.”