For example, an employer wants to recruit an advice worker who has experience of coming out for a young person's LGBT helpline. This is called an occupational requirement.
It can also occur if you are supporting someone who has made a complaint of sexual orientation related discrimination under the Equality Act. This is when you are treated badly because you have made a complaint of sexual orientation related discrimination under the Equality Act. Outside the workplace, if you are harassed or receive offensive treatment because of your sexual orientation, this may be direct discrimination. However, if an organisation or employer can show it did everything it could to prevent people who work for it from behaving like that, you will not be able to make a claim for harassment against it, although you could make a claim against the harasser.
This happens when someone treats you worse than another person in a similar situation because of your sexual orientation. There are four main types of sexual orientation discrimination.