The IAFF believes that discrimination and harassment can be stopped in both its open and hidden forms by encouraging all people to live by the basic principle of respect, and that every person is entitled to the same basic rights, regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation or reason of disability.

Membership shall not be refused or discriminated against because of race, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation or by reason of disability.

-IAFF Constitution and By-Laws, Article III, Section 1