2UE presenters Steve Price and John Laws are unlikely to be in a party mood as the Gay and Lesbian Mardi-Gras approaches this weekend, after comments they made about gays have landed them in front of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal for vilification.

Comments about The Block’s Gav and Waz “encouraged listeners to think homosexuals were sick and linked to paedophilia,” according to Gary Burns, the Sydney homosexual man making the complaint.

Burns says the broadcast vilified homosexuals and the Administrative Decisions Tribunal has decided that it has the jurisdiction to handle the case. He says the Laws-Price exchange “offended him” and “whipped up anxiety” among parents.

In their regular morning chat at about 8.50am, Laws and Price discussed how to explain Waz and Gav’s relationship to children viewing the program in that timeslot.

At the hearing Burns said the comments were “communicating the message that homosexual people are objects to be treated differently and there was something perverted or sick or dirty about homosexuals being seen on television at 6.30pm at night.”

Burns wants $40,000 compensation each from 2UE, Laws and Price, an on-air apology, and a printed apology to the gay community in the Sydney Star Observer, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian newspapers.