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 with derogatory names and racial slurs.