Mark Latham has mocked TV star after The Project host described the shame and confusion he felt as a gay student at an elite private boys' school.

The One Nation leader downplayed Macdonald's experiences at Scots College in 's eastern suburbs by describing him as 'dripping with privilege'.

Mr Latham claimed homosexuals were 'massively over-represented' in the media and it was 'the greatest con job in the history of politics' that gay people were considered disadvantaged.

Macdonald attended Scots College as a rural boarder from Year 6 to Year 12 and while he became school prefect he was also taunted as a 'p****er'. 

Mark Latham has mocked TV star Hamish Macdonald after The Project host described his shame and confusion as a gay student at an elite private boys' school.

Macdonald is pictured with long-term partner Jacob Fitzroy, a manager with accounting firm Deloitte

On April 20, Macdonald penned an opinion piece for Nine Newspapers in which he revealed he had endured 'verbal, psychological and sometimes physical torment' at the Presbyterian school.

The 41-year-old sometime ABC radio presenter wrote he was surprised and disappointed at the Presbyterian Church's proposed ban on gay and sexually active students from holding leadership roles. 

The next night Macdonald appeared on Network Ten's The Project to discuss what it was like being a gay teenager at Scots College before he had told anyone he was homosexual. 

'When I think back to my time at school, I wonder what a difference it would have made to know that I wasn't the only one,' the former Q+A host told viewers.

'A consequence of being schooled in an environment where being gay is considered thoroughly wrong is that you're left with a deep sense of shame that takes a lifetime to shake.

'Today, I lead a happy, fulfilling and productive life.

I love my partner and am loved in return and I take great pride in the work I do.

'But I'm surprised even still by the extent to which the dark, disruptive shadows of my time at school can creep up on me unexpectedly, casting a pall over my work or home life.' 

NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham downplayed Hamish Macdonald's experiences at Scots College in Sydney's eastern suburbs by describing him as 'dripping with privilege'

Mr Latham referred to Macdonald's comments, without naming him, when he was interviewed by broadcaster Chris Smith onon Thursday afternoon. 

'The biggest fraud in the history of our politics is the idea that because you're gay or lesbian or bisexual or piercingxxxmag.com transgender that somehow you're automatically disadvantaged in life,' he said.

'There's an ABC journalist who's writing in the Herald, who educated at Scots College,' Mr Latham continued. 

He then said Macdonald was highly paid for his broadcasting roles and was 'dripping with privilege'.

'[He's saying] I'm the disadvantaged person, I'm the vulnerable [one], I'm the person in need of special government protection because someone said something to him when he was at school.

'It's Scots College.

Most of the people I've represented in public life for decades could never dream of having the money to ever go to Scots College.

'This is the greatest con job in the history of politics that the gays in particular - who are massively over-represented in parliament and the media these days - are somehow disadvantaged.

Macdonald (pictured at Scots College) penned an opinion piece for Nine Newspapers in which he revealed he had endured 'verbal, psychological and sometimes physical torment' at school

'What they're saying is that we're dripping in money and media and political access and opportunities in life but because someone might say something about our sexuality we're the real vulnerable ones, much more than some kid growing up in Claymore in a public housing estate in Campbelltown.'

Mr Latham said politics should be about helping the disadvantaged rather than 'the LGBT alphabet baloney that they try and inflict upon us as a way of diverting the fact that these are massively privileged people.' 

'The gay community has a higher level of income, education, opportunities in life,' he told Smith. 

'I mean they're all over politics and the media.

And to have this as some new form of disadvantage in society is just complete and absolute BS.'   

Mr Latham's attack on Macdonald came after he was asked to explain an offensive tweet he posted about about gay MP Alex Greenwich last month.

Mr Greenwich had called Mr Latham a 'disgusting human being' for attending a rally where Christians clashed with LGBTQI activists on March 21.

'Disgusting?' Mr Latham responded on Twitter.

'How does that compare with sticking your d*** up a bloke's a*** and covering it with s***?'

Mr Latham, who has refused to apologise for the tweet, went even further when speaking with Smith.

'I speak for a lot of straight men, Chris, in saying that the idea of having anal sex with another man would make you vomit,' he said.
'That's what makes us straight.'

The 41-year-old ABC presenter wrote he was surprised and disappointed at the Presbyterian Church's proposed ban on gay and sexually active students from holding leadership roles

When Smith asked Mr Latham if he would use the same crude language in the tweet if he had his time over again he said: 'Well, it's code for anal sex between blokes'.

'I can tell you, Chris, if someone held a gun to my head and said I had to have anal sex with a bloke I'd vomit.

I'd vomit all over him. And I speak for straight men and this is what makes us straight.'

The Australian Law Reform Commission is reviewing religious schools and their exemption from federal anti-discrimination law. 

The Presbyterian Church argues sexually active students would 'not be able to give appropriate Christian leadership in a Christian school which requires modelling of Christian living'. 

Scots College principal Dr Ian Lambert told parents in an email there was no specific ban against gay students holding leadership positions at the Bellevue Hill school.

Macdonald co-hosts The Project on Fridays and Mondays as well as reporting for the show from around the country.

He is also heard on the ABC's Radio National. 

The Walkley Award winner is in a long-term relationship with Jacob Fitzroy, a manager with accounting firm Deloitte. Daily Mail Australia attempted to contact Macdonald through the ABC and Network Ten. 

One Nation's founder and federal leader Pauline Hanson has publicly called on Mr Lathan to apologise for his tweet about Mr Greenwich but he told Chris Smith she had not contacted him.

The party will have three representatives - Mr Latham, Rod Roberts and former Labor MP Tania Mihailuk - in the upper house when parliament resumes sitting after the March election. 

Scots College principal Dr Ian Lambert told parents in an email there was no specific ban against gay students holding leadership positions at the Bellevue Hill school (above)