I was bullied after being outed at work – then I turned the table on my colleagues Deon Pillay came to the UK with nothing but a suitcase and a £2.65 an hour job, all in a bid to find freedom as a gay man.
Instead, he was forced ‘back into the closet’ to avoid discrimination and bullying in the workplace – only to be publicly outed and shamed in front of his colleagues years later.
After keeping his head down and hiding his sexuality at work for a decade, his cover came tumbling down at the leaving drinks of a colleague in 2017.
‘Gay people were seen as a disease,’ Deon said.
‘People working on the trading floors were being bullied and losing their jobs because of their sexuality.’.
