Appeal against gay sacking | IMGpapers 1980

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GORDON Wiseman was sacked from his job as lecturer drama therapy, at Salford technical col'gross indecencv man aged over 21.

By a majority decision, the dismissal was upheld by tribunal, and the case is now being taken Appeals Tribunal, where it MONTO It will have serious consequences for the employment protection gay Gordon was dismissed in spite tact that his choloyers Had recciveu no complainis, and inal a large number Kenners and theis work and others Sheila Egan, tar yormer sericlal y ther caucalon leacners. was issculine member Ine Tribunal appeal. She said that Gordon's dismissal was tantamount to sacking him for sonciting and promiscuity. but that a heterosexual was most unlikely to be sacked for this reason.

She oncluded: 'In treating a homosexual man more Marshiy because or aIs homosexuality, the governors had shown themselves unpre minded", law lal.

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