He flagged the comments to HR. The supervisor stayed in his chain of command anyway
A Comcast senior manager says his boss mocked his clothes and HR told him to "just take" it.
Patrick Diogenia, a former senior manager at Comcast, sued the company and his direct supervisor on May 10, 2026, alleging sexual-orientation and gender-identity harassment and a hostile work environment. The case was filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Diogenia joined Comcast on or around September 12, 2022 at an initial base salary of $130,000. He says he is gay and disclosed his sexual orientation during interviews. According to the complaint, he was recruited by a high-ranking LGBTQ employee - and his soon-to-be supervisor, Senior Director of Marketing Technology Andrew "AJ" Antonioli, opposed the hire.
The filing describes a pattern HR teams will find familiar. Diogenia alleges that starting in September 2022, Antonioli limited him to one question per department-wide meeting and made him submit a weekly task agenda. Neither requirement applied to peers, the complaint says. The following spring, the filing alleges, a vice president gave Diogenia "strategic oversight" of a high-profile project. Antonioli stepped in and downgraded his role to "proposals and contracts."
Then came the comments. The complaint alleges that during a February 2023 lunch, Antonioli said he would be perplexed and disturbed if one of his children were gay, and that he would try to...
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