Zalewski v. Overlook Hosp

In Zalewski v. Overlook Hosp., 300 N.J. Super. 202, 692 A.2d 131 (Law Div.1996), Judge Menza decided that the LAD applied to sexual harassment of a heterosexual male by other heterosexual males when the harassment was based on gender stereotyping. In Zalewski, the plaintiff's coworkers harassed him because they thought he was a virgin. They never suggested his sexual orientation was anything other than heterosexual and there was no evidence that he was homosexual or bisexual. Id. at 203-04, 692 A.2d 131. Nevertheless, Judge Menza found a violation and noted that we should not "condone severe sexual harassment of a person because he is perceived or presumed to be less than someone's definition of masculine." Id. at 211, 692 A.2d 131.