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Gay Employee Comes Out, His Salary Was Cut in Half to Be Equal With Other 'Females in the office' Then Fired

Gay Employee Comes Out, His Salary Was Cut in Half to Be Equal With Other ‘Females in the office’ Then Fired

A former employee of the international New York based events company Eventique claims he was degraded and his play was slashed to match “other females in the office,” once his boss learned he was gay. 

In a lawsuit filed this week, Wesley Wereneck says he was abused. suffered discrimination. rampant homophobia, and was fired from his position at Eventique – which stages promotional events for companies including Nike, Twitter And Amazon.

“Wesley was personally recruited by this employer to be a senior producer, and once he learned he was gay, the employer began shutting him out of the business,” said Wernecke’s lawyer, Anthony Consiglio

Wesley says a week after being hired in June, co-workers made snide comments about his engagement ring, calling it “girly”. When asked if his wife wore a similar ring, Wernecke told them his partner, Evan, did.

After that he was excluded from meetings and social events, passed over for assignments with large commissions and subjected to discriminatory anti-gay remarks.

Finally, Wesley claims he was called into CEO Henry Liron David s office and told his salary was being cut by more than 50 percent, from US$145,000 to $70,000.

“I couldn’t sleep at night thinking that you were being paid so much more than the other females in the office,” David allegedly to have told Wernecke. The CEO, the complaint alleges, “simply could not bear the thought that Eventique would continue to be represented by a gay man”.

Not long after, Wesley discovered that David had lowered his salary even more, to $58,000 or 40 percent less than the starting salary he was promised when he left his former job, the lawsuit says.

He was then fired two weeks later.

Henry Liron David’s lawyer, Gena Zaiderman, claimed that he denies the ‘shocking and baseless’ allegations.

‘Mr. David firmly stands by his long-standing reputation for fairness and professionalism. We expect that the facts will be revealed in due course,’ the lawyer said in a statement.  

2 Gay Men Publicly Flogged In Aceh, Indonesia, Receive 87 Lashes Each

2 Gay Men Publicly Flogged In Aceh, Indonesia. Receive 87 Lashes Each

15 people, including five women, and two gay men were punished with public caning Friday for violating Sharia law in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province.

Two men accused of being gay received 87 lashes each for gay sex, while nine others were sentenced up to 26 lashes for adultery. Four people, one of whom is female, were lashed 27 times for being drunk.

In video of the punishment seen by CNN, people can be heard jeering as the detainees, who are wearing white, traditional koko shirts, are brought up to the scaffold in front of the mosque.

Others took cellphone video of the punishment being administered by a hooded man while a voice counts the strokes over a loudspeaker. At one point a uniformed official appears to instruct the masked whipper where to land the blow.

The two men whipped for homosexuality Friday aren’t the first — last May two men were lashed 83 times for the same offense.

Muhammad Hidayat, the Sharia police chief, said that homosexuality was widely reviled in the deeply religious state, and that his police force would carry out the prosecution of violations of Sharia equally, without favoring officials.

North Carolina Waiter Fired After Sharing Anti-Gay Comments Written On Credit Card Receipt

Adding insult to injury the restaurant chain Hickory Tavern fired a gay waiter from its  in Indian Trail restaurant in Union County, NC after the waiter shared a copy of a check receipt that had anti-gay comments scrawled on it despite the fact that all of the customer information was redacted.

““Our gay waiter made me wanna throw up my food!” the patron wrote on the Nov. 30 receipt “Ruined my experience tonigth. Will not be back!”

Via The Observer:

After the Observer emailed the restaurant chain on Tuesday to confirm the authenticity of the receipt and that the server had been fired, Hickory Tavern released a statement confirming the firing and that “insults” aimed at the server had been left on a receipt.

“We strongly condemn the insults directed at one of our team members in remarks left by a patron on their credit card receipt,” Hickory Tavern said. “We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation or for any other reason. We also value the privacy of our patrons, and posting of credit card receipts violates our confidentiality policy.

“Although the team member was initially terminated for violating this policy, after further discussions with the team member, we made the decision to offer his job back. We strive to strike the right balance between supporting our team members and protecting the private information of our guests.”

Lucia Stetson, another patron of the restaurant also posted a copy of the receipt on Facebook on Sunday, saying: “A sweet young man was fired from his server job at Hickory Tavern after sharing a bigoted note left by a customer. Let’s help him find a new job.” Her post has been shared over 1600 times.

Here is the LINK for Hickory Tavern’s Corporate Comment/Complaint section.  Please use it.

 

 

 

British Marine Claims He Was ‘Forced to Masturbate to Gay Porn” As Punishment

Corporal Danny Foster

 

Corporal Danny Foster, and corporal Philip Beer,  are on trial at Portsmouth Military Court in England for ill-treatment of a subordinate after a lower ranked service member stepped forward and claimed that the two forced fellow marines to watch gay porn and masturbate in front of others as part of a bizarre punishment.

The “punishment” incidents are alleged to have happened between May and August 2014 at Faslane and Coulport naval bases in Argyll.

“You could be punished for anything starting from just leaving a pen lid on the floor up to operational things like not turning on your radio while on patrol. ‘A senior marine would stand at the front and would ask if there were any integrity shouts – which meant you would own up to a mistake you had made.” said one Marine.

According to testimony on the first occasion, there had been a map reading test which was made too hard and so a number of people failed. ‘We got lined up at the front of the room during family time and the corporals, who were at the back, were talking about what they would make us do. ‘They all laughed when Corporal Foster said we should wank to gay porn.  “I told Foster I wasn’t going to do it but he said to me ‘you fucking are’. ‘The porn was military themed porn, the men had berets on and people were watching us – we were told the last person to ejaculate would get another punishment. ‘I felt disgusted and degraded having to do it, it was massively degrading, I had no power against it; I could not say no.’

Foster denies the ill treatment of a subordinate.

 

 

 

 

2 Russian Vloggers Pretend To Be Gay, This is The Abuse They Received – Video

Undercover Anti-Gay Russia

 

Two vloggers from ChebuRussiaTV,  a popular Russian YouTube channel which bills itself as “a project based solely on our enthusiasm and only positive intentions. Our purpose – to give people positive emotions and provide motivation to commit new crazy feats! Prank, social experiments.” Conducted a hidden camera experiment that in which the two held hands and walked down the streets of Moscow and taped the outward anti-gay reactions of Russian citizens which ranged from curses to physical violence.  

Scary stuff.

The video has almost 1 million  views at the time of this writing. Click on the closed captioning.

 

MOROCCO: Two Man Sentenced To 3 Years In Jail For Having Gay Sex

gay jailed in Morocco

On December 23rd.  a court in the country of Morocco sentenced two men to three years in prison, the maximum sentence for “homosexual practices”, the maximum penalty under the law. The ruling was fast-tracked by the court were found having sex on  Dec. 13.

Back in December retired magazine publisher Ray Cole a British tourist  as arrested and charged with committing homosexual acts back in September.

Cole described the conditions of being in a Moroccan jail as “a concentration camp”.

Both male and female same-sex sexual activity is illegal in Morocco. Morocco’s statute and culture towards LGBT issues stands in stark contrast to neighboring Spain.

H/T – LGBT Weekly

Cowardly Twitter Bigots Attack and Bully Tom Daley For Coming Out

Tom Daley straight

Tom Daley is enduring a lot of abuse from cowardly bigots on Twitter who are hiding behind their computer screens and spew hatred after sharing the news that he’s dating a guy earlier today,

Run over to Tom’s page @TomDaley1994 and give him a kind word and feel free to go after these close minded haters and give them a good old fashioned flaming.

Names HAVE NOT been redacted below:

Tom Daley Abuse-vert

 

Lawsuit Filed Against South Carolina School District After Teacher Harasses Gay Teen

Most evil

A lawsuit has been brought against the Charleston County School District after  West Ashley High School math teacher bullied and harassed a gay student in front of his classmates, resulting in the student’s attempted suicide.

The teacher repeatedly called the student “gay”, “gay boy”, and other names while the student was in front of his peers, and encouraged the victim’s classmates to join in on the name-calling and told the victim’s classmates that the student was in a homosexual relationship with another male classmate, and that they were “boyfriend and girlfriend”.

The lawsuit claims the school district was grossly negligent in failing to properly supervise the teacher, and failing to take steps which would have prevented, discovered, and stopped the teacher’s behavior.

The victim’s family is suing the school district for past, present and future damages associated with pain and suffering, mental anguish, the alteration of lifestyle, and past and future medical bills.

Not surprisingly though according to CCSD spokesperson Jason Sakran, the teacher is still employed by the school district.

In my opinion horsewhipping is too good for the adult teacher that did this to this poor teenager.

 

Four Men Sue Perverse Ex-Gay Jewish Therapy Group JONAH For Mental Torture – Video

Four gay men with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center are suing the NJ “ex-gay” organization JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Healing) for fraud and mental torture

AP reports:

Three of the men at the news conference are Jewish, and the fourth is a Mormon now living in Salt Lake City who was a college student in New York when he signed up for the services.

Speaking for the men at Tuesday’s news conference were attorneys from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery, Ala.-based civil rights organization.

“JONAH profits off of shameful and dangerous attempts to fix something that isn’t broken,” said Christine P. Sun, the center’s deputy legal director. “Despite the consensus of mainstream professional organizations that conversion therapy doesn’t work, this racket continues to scam vulnerable gay men and lesbians out of thousands of dollars and inflicts significant harm on them.”

The therapy, which can cost up to $10,000 a year, put them at risk of “depression, anxiety and self-destructive behavior,” while giving them no benefits, the suit said.

In 2010 Truth Wins Out released a video  in which Ben Unger and Chaim Levin, blasted JONAH’s lead therapist Alan Downing, accusing Downing of a “psychological striptease” in which he watched them disrobe and touch their bodies

Jo Bruck, Sheldon’s mother, and Bella Levin, the mother of plaintiff Chaim Levin, are also plaintiffs because they paid for their sons’ conversion therapy and the counseling the suit said they needed to recover from it.  But personally in my opinion these “mothers” shouldn’t be plaintiffs but should be defendants for putting their children through such trauma and abuse.

I applaud the lawyer for representing the plaintiffs and  the for gay men themselves for standing up and exposing these sick organizations and hopefully putting JONAH out of business through court costs alone if nothing else and exposing such dangerous quack ex-gay reparative therapy groups to the world.

 

DISGUSTING – NOM Pimps Out Bigoted Teen As Its New Gay Hate Spokesperson

In September of 2011 we reported about Dakota Ary, a Texas high school student who claimed he was persecuted and  suspended from school for telling his German class, “I’m a Christian and, to me, being homosexual is wrong.” and claiming that his German teacher Kristopher Franks has been pushing a “homosexual agenda” in his class.

Well that turned out to be a lie and Dakota turned out to be a lie and it was revealed that Dakota and his pals have a long history of homophobic remarks and actions.

But that isn’t stopping the National Organization for Marriage’s “Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance” from using the obviously troubled teen and his mother in a new anti-gay hate ad.

Writes Jeremy Hooper:

But regardless of just how anti-gay young Dakota  was on that day, the truly ridiculous thing about the National Organization for  Marriage now using Dakota in a “Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance” video comes  in the little fact that Texas is about as far away from marriage equality as any  one state in this nation. Whatever went down in Dakota’s case, it was not about  the national conversation surrounding civil marriage rights—it was about basic  respect for LGBT people during the public school day! He did what he did in a  red state with no legal recognition of same-sex couples. A rejection of the  casual peace of mind that all students deserve when they head to school is not  supposed to be among NOM’s goals.

At least it didn’t used to be among  NOM’s goals.

Hooper makes a good point.  But what he misses is that it’s not all about marriage equality.  This is about anti-gay bigotry and hate pure and simple across the board,

And while there’s no doubt that the hateful homophobic little mouth-breather in the video below is a product of his bigoted hateful cow of a mother he is still a minor and NOM is pimping him out to spread their hate under the guise of “free speech” sinks the already repugnant organization to the lower depths of using disgusting tactics.