Firefighter Sues City After Years Of Anti-Gay, Racist Abuse From Co-Workers And Supervisors

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A San Francisco firefighter filed a lawsuit against The City of San Francisco after he says he was harassed and discriminated against in the workplace because he is gay and Black.

Keith Baraka, a 23-year employee of the San Francisco Fire Department, alleges in the lawsuit filed Jan. 19 that during the nearly 11 years he served at Station 6, a fire station in the Castro District, he experienced “a nightmarish series of events” beginning after he put a rainbow Pride sticker on his helmet “to communicate that he was member of the community that was being served by Station 6.”

Baraka alleges that his co-workers and supervisors harassed him and referred to him

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