NARRAGANSETT — A former manager at the Town Beach has filed a lawsuit that accuses town officials of firing him last year based on false charges of sexual harassment and then publicly ridiculing him because he is gay.
Steven R. Storti, 51, a Narragansett resident, alleges he was fired on Aug. 5, 2006, by then Town Manager Maurice J. Loontjens and Parks and Recreation Director Barry S. Fontaine, who publicly confronted him at the beach and accused him of sexually harassing “a male subordinate employee.”
According to the lawsuit, the allegations were later shared with other town employees, who sang a “sexually explicit, hateful, homophobic and outrageous” song over town radio equipment.
