jamie dimon allegedly said he could be 17 percent gay. the co-chair of his bank's pride group says he was pushed out over a $40 uber.

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via The Independent, which obtained the complaint, and Attitude, citing Bloomberg Law's review of it, with the federal docket.

Two Uber rides, about $40, both to Pride Month events his manager had approved. That, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday, is what JPMorgan Chase's HR department said "raised questions about his trustworthiness and honesty."

Brian Larson, a former senior associate, filed Larson v. JPMorgan Chase Bank in federal court in Manhattan on Sept. 23, alleging discrimination and retaliation under Title VII. He was co-chair of PRIDE Tri-State, the bank's LGBTQ employee group for the tri-state area. The complaint, as the Independent reports it, says a supervisor told him he "needed to keep his 'gay job' separate from his work at JPMorgan, that 'DEI wasn't going to save [him],'" and that being gay didn't mean he'd get "a leg up." Attitude, citing Bloomberg Law, adds that a manager called the Pride work an "extracurricular activity."

The complaint says he was pulled off projects, handed a "very low rating" after glowing reviews, then struck out on roughly 50 internal jobs. When the Uber rides came up in October 2023, his manager backed him up and HR dropped it, the complaint says, and four days later HR told him to resign or be fired. He resigned. He says the stress revived his childhood trichotillomania, the compulsion to pull out your own hair, and that he now lives on disability benefits.

Then there is the cameo. The complaint alleges CEO Jamie Dimon once had a gay executive explain the Kinsey scale and then said he "could be 17 percent gay," a remark the filing calls "both odd and offensive." We would simply like to know how he did the math.

JPMorgan told the Independent: "We take these allegations very seriously and after a thorough internal investigation we found no evidence to substantiate Mr. Larson's claims." None of the allegations has been tested in court. He wants lost wages plus compensatory and punitive damages.