Hackney Gazette – hg.editorial@archant.co.uk
AN Oxford-educated transvestite has told of the “intimidation” and “discomfort” he felt at the hands of Hackney market traders after he was jeered for wearing a bright pink wig and skirt.
Jeremy Carroll, 41, was shopping in Ridley Road market in Dalston when he received a less-than-friendly response from some traders.
The separated father-of-one, who calls himself “Pink Boy”, said: “Some of the stallholders started to catcall loudly and bay at me and a wave of sound rolled around the top end of the market, which was very aggressive and unpleasant.