X Factor star Lucy Spraggan said she had to cut a holiday short after being subjected to vile homophobic abuse.
The musician, who lives in Manchester, took to Facebook to reveal her anger at how she and her partner were treated during a trip to Malta.
“Malta was beautiful, but the experience was not," she said.
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She said that she and her partner were abused in Valletta.
The only 'lasted 2.5 days', deciding to travel there after hearing it was 'so LGBT friendly and progressive', the Mirror reported.
"First day we arrived we realised we’d landed in the wrong part of town," she said on Facebook.
"Every other bar was a ‘gentlemen’s club’ and it was clearly a party destination, and everywhere we went someone shouted ‘lesbians’ at us.
"We went to a restaurant in Valletta where the waiter said: ‘the way you girls are sitting is so sexy, you are making us all hard’."
Lucy said her experience left her 'so angry'.
She also said that men started harassing them, made crass hand gestures and shouted at them as they went to buy some ice cream.
Lucy posted: “I am sick to f**king death of feeling threatened as a woman. Sick to f**king death of feeling threatened as a lesbian.
“I am sick to f**king death of being spoken down to by men across the globe."
In an update, Lucy later thanked members of the Maltese community who had offered their support after her ordeal.
"For the doubters, neither of us had left the UK for two years, our first trip away together and it was less stressful to just come home rather than stay," she added.
"It felt safer to just come home rather than stay."
She added: "I have nothing more to say about our experience, but alongside it I do hope that my post opened up conversation around the fact that as an LGBTQ+ person, and as two women travelling, I have to extensively research my holiday destinations to ensure we will be safe wherever we go.
"That is something I do every time I travel.
"LGBTQ ‘Friendly’ would be a win, but we are actually looking for LGBTQ Safe."
