Lawsuits claiming firings or failure to hire based on sexual orientation are nothing new, but when a former Manhattan gym teacher alleges he was let go for being straight, married and having children, that’s what reporters call a “man bites dog” type of story.
But is that what happened, and if so, is it really that unusual? Aditi Mukherji takes a closer look in Legally Weird, FindLaw’s Legal Curiosities blog. According to accounts in Gothamist, 50-year-old Gregory Kenney, an ex-gym teacher at the posh Trinity School argues that the institution’s lesbian athletic director, Pat Krieger, gave preferential treatment to “single younger females without children and discriminated against [him] because of his gender, sexual orientation, ‘traditional family status,’ and age.”
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