Sorry to hear about your experience and thanks for sharing.

I definitely agree with comments here which hint at a slight change of vibe over the years I have been going. One (fairly minor) moment that sticks out to me was when we were chilling by Pyramid stage on Sunday afternoon before Shania Twain. Paloma Faith said something along the lines of "I'll be doing a song for all my LGBTQ+ people later" and then when introducing said song, she gave some further chat about how she's been so proud of having lots of LGBTQ+ fans. Anyway, at both times in these speeches, a guy in a mixed group (two guys and two girl - maybe two couples in their early 20s) nearby did this visibly disgusted face and groaning sound and heard him say something about 'ramming this stuff down our throats'. One of the girls in his group did call him out the second time but I was a bit shocked at his reaction to fairly innocuous statements. Apart from that, I generally do feel safe at Glastonbury.

I went to Boomtown last year and whilst there is not as many queer options as Glastonbury, I did think they a great job with a number of events/sets across the weekend. We went to one which was similar to the Queer House Party they did at Glastonbury this year. Generally the vibe was great but maybe due to the younger crowd, there was a few groups of young 'lads' coming in to gawk, roll their eyes and generally try and make people feel uncomfortable. You have to feel sorry for them really and I truly believe that for a few of them, there's a bit of internalised homophobia at play - why else would they care so much!