English was repeatedly called “faggot” by coworkers at the blind and awning manufacturer where he works because they found out he “had been to boarding school and now lived in Brighton, which has a large gay population.”  Despite having been married 20 years (not that that means anything), the employer went so far as to allow a joke about him “wearing skin-tight Lycra cycling shorts” at the Brighton Gay Pride Parade to get into the company newsletter.

Lord Justice Sedley said in the case that English had a right to sue for discrimination based on sexual orientation, and called the taunts “a calculated insult to his dignity.”

So, he fared better than those dick San Diego firefighters.  Anyway… we’ve never met the man, but let’s just hope for his wife’s sake that he doesn’t sound like this:

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