Everett Gallant leaving court May 19, 2011. (CBC)

The former manager of a homeless shelter was in court Friday on a charge of sexual assault.

Everett Gallant, 70, has pleaded not guilty to alledgedly assaulting a young man who was stayed in the Bedford MacDonald House last spring.

Last year, after hearing testimony at a sentencing hearing, provincial court judge John Douglas rejected Gallant's original guilty plea.

Douglas said Gallant's testimony was not consistent with an admission of guilt. He ordered a trial with a new judge.

Gallant took the stand in his own defence Friday, testifying that he had a sexual encounter with a young man who was staying at the homeless shelter, but contends it was consensual.

The court heard Gallant entered a bedroom the man was sleeping in, crawled into the man's bed, and tried to have anal sex with him.

Under cross examination, Gallant agreed that he had propositioned the man on several occasions.

Gallant also conceded that he had propositioned one other resident of the shelter about one month earlier.

The alleged victim also testified Friday.

The victim read from a journal he had been keeping during his stay at Bedford MacDonald House.

In the journal, he wrote he wasn't pleased with the sexual advances of a man in the same age bracket as his grandparents.

He also wrote he feared getting kicked out of the shelter if he objected.

The court also heard that Gallant was previously convicted in 1999, for sexual offences against two teenage boys in Charlottetown.

Provincial court judge Nancy Orr will hand down her decision in the case next Tuesday