 In a separate survey, verbal harassment was cited as the most common form of abuse.However, there were also a significant number of people who were harassed by being denied service or being physically harassed.Research from Patrick McNeil at George Washington University in 2014 showed that 90% of participants in his survey of gay and bisexual men said that they felt “unwelcome in public because of their sexual orientation.” 73% said that they experienced specific homophobic and biphobic comments targeted towards them in the past year.