Stephen English, 56, and happily married with three children claims he was often called a 'faggot' and 'Mr Franglais' by colleagues at the window blinds company he worked at, after a sales manager discovered that he had attended boarding school and lived in the English city of Brighton, which has a large gay community.
The Court of Appeal must now decide as to whether the straight English is protected by legislation that bars discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.
At the centre of English's case is whether he's covered by regulations banning discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation even though his colleagues knew he was not gay.
English's lawyers told the appeals court that while he had tried to ignore the "homophobic" innuendo about him, "over the passage of several years he found it increasingly upsetting".
Taxpayers face a 50, 000 pound bill to fund the legal battle.
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