Dan O’Neill is a wildlife filmmaker, TV presenter, and PhD candidate biologist who recently shared his experience encountering antigay discrimination in the workplace.In a first-person piece for the U.K.’s i news, O’Neill explained that, “like most LGBT+ people, I’ve been called names all my life.
I’ve been advised by people in my industry to ‘play down’ my sexuality — and I have done.”He went on to give some details, recalling how “once, I was in a meeting at a production company in London to pitch ideas for a new program.
I guess I was getting excited about an idea and talking about it in an excitable way. I found out afterwards that one of the leaders of the meeting said: ‘He’s gayer than we expected.’ I never got a call from them.