Vice mayor who called gay men fairies is now out of a job.

Dixon Police flank Dixon Vice Mayor Ted Hickman at the Dixon City Council on Tuesday. (Renee C. Byer rbyer@sacbee.com)

A Northern California vice mayor who was heavily criticized earlier this year after writing a newspaper column that many people viewed as homophobic lost his city council seat by a landslide vote Tuesday night.

Ted Hickman was defeated for…