An aspiring sailor left the Royal Navy after he was subjected to casual homophobia day in and day out.
William Gill trained in the Royal Navy in 1991 for four months at HMS Raleigh, Cornwall, where he was told that 'homosexuals were dirty b*****s.'
The 56-year-old told the ECHO he knew he always wanted to join the Navy: “I had a grandfather who told me stories about a merchant sailor who was an adventurer on the high seas’ as I saw it. I grew up with the idea of joining the royal navy.”
