Gay man left needing surgery after being brutally beaten

What was meant to be a night of revelry ended in a beating at the hands of nightclub bouncers, a gay man has alleged, prompting police to launch an investigation.

In the early hours of Saturday (22 January), Ronan Gordon, a 21-year-old Manchester local, was battered by “five bouncers” at Bloom, a mainstay of the city’s queer nightlife.

Gordon said that while visiting the club on Bloom Street, security staffers without warning allegedly set upon him, leaving him with a fractured nose and eye socket that will require surgery.

“Last night while I was in Bloom, I was targeted by five bouncers and beaten in an unprovoked attack,” Gordon wrote on Instagram.

Sharing a carousel of grisly photos of him bloodied and bruised, he added: “I have a broken nose a shattered eye socket and have to have surgery, I’m full of cuts and bruises. I was knocked unconscious on the floor, they were told to stop but carried on.”