Straight Man Subjected to Homophobic Bullying Wins Appeal
I'm glad to see a clamp down on using homosexuality as a derogatory term in the workplace.
A happily married straight man, Stephen English, was subjected to bullying in the workplace when employees constantly called him "faggot" and published a story about him wearing skin tight lycra shots to Brighton Pride.
His former employers argued that he was not subject to harassment based on his sexual orientation because he his colleagues new he wasn't really gay.
The Court of Appeal granted that homophobic "banter" constitutes harassment regardless of the orientation of the victim.
I'm delighted at the ruling. Why should a straight person not be entitled to protection from homophobic bullying just because he doesn't happen to be gay?
2 comments:
This is another example of people using 'gay' as a perjorative term, as if being gay is a terribe thing and he would be a worse person if he was homosexual.
The fact that he isn't homosexual makes this even worse, showing the comments not only to be inaccurate but also making it obvious that they are to be taken as insults.
Good on the Court of Appeal!
That is just so GAAAAAYYYYY
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