NBC News reports<\/a>: \u201cEventique attempted to alienate and degrade Wesley Wernecke after CEO Henry Liron David learned he was gay<\/a>, said Wernecke\u2019s lawyer, Anthony Consiglio. \u2026 Wernecke had just begun to work for Eventique, which stages events for high-profile clients, such as Nike, Twitter and Amazon, when David began to push him out of his role, the complaint filed Wednesday in the Manhattan Supreme Court states.\u201d<\/p>\n Wernecke faced numerous instances of humiliation and discrimination according to the lawsuit, until he was eventually fired because \u201cDavid simply could not bear the thought that Eventique would continue to be represented by a gay<\/a> man<\/a>.\u201d Workers mocked him for his \u201cgirly\u201d engagement ring, he was specifically excluded by his boss from a male<\/a> bonding ritual with his employees involving a fist bump, he was excluded from \u201ccompany lunches and frequent after-work drinks with \u2018the fellas\u2019 in his office\u201d and his pay was cut from $145K to $58K.<\/p>\n David reportedly told Wernecke<\/a>: \u201cI couldn\u2019t sleep at night thinking that you were being paid so much more than the other females<\/a> in the office.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Gay Man Sues NYC Event Company, Says Boss Degraded Him and Cut Pay to Match \u2018Other Females in the Office\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad Gay News<\/a>.<\/p>\n