LGBT+ DEI Drama in Philadelphia

Two senior officials in Philadelphia’s city government—Tyrell Brown, Director of LGBTQ+ Affairs, and Brandee Anderson, Chief Officer for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—were fired amid a controversy involving an unsolicited “semi-nude” photo sent on a cruising app by a top aide to Mayor Cherelle Parker. Although neither Brown nor Anderson sent the image, Anderson says she was retaliated against for reporting the incident through official channels. She criticized the administration for prioritizing loyalty over integrity and accused it of fostering a toxic work culture that undermines DEI efforts. While the administration maintains that DEI issues remain a priority, it declined to address the details, citing personnel confidentiality. Brown has described the termination as a “mutual separation,” while Anderson has strongly contested the grounds for her dismissal, pointing to racial and structural biases. Both terminations have left Parker’s administration without leadership in its LGBTQ+ and DEI offices for the second time since she took office in January 2024.

Christopher Dailey sent it with a facepic to Brown who was cruising anonymously online from their City Hall Office.

Just add them to the list of messy gays who have been on the Philly public sector payroll.

Specifically, Josh Kruger (past DL infinitum) and the DAO gay who shot and killed a trick.

What’s a DAO gay?

The “they” pronouns in that article make it very difficult to track who is saying what.

DA's office, R4.

Those PHILLY QUEERS are messy as FUCK!!

They are all fat.

They also hired a pedophile tranny.

WOW!! What a sick FUCK.

Thank God for Philly city government, other wise these people would never be able to find employment in the private sector.

Philly also gave us that horrendous black and brown striped rainbow flag.

Is that where it came from r12? I hate that flag, it's hideous.

No one can beat up on fellow gays in the news like the gays of DL.

I’m too confused by the article to care. Can someone write a 2 sentence summary and can we see the pic please??

“ No one can beat up on fellow gays in the news like the gays of DL.”

No one knows the grift of fellow gays in the news like the gays of DL.

The gays of DL who never leave their mom's basement?

Christopher Dailey, the top aide to the Mayor’s chief of staff, sent an unsolicited picture to Tyrell Brown, philadelphia’s director of LBGTQ+ affairs. Apparently, Tyrell received the picture at his profile, which was anonymous. However, the picture was sent through an app that used Geo location. So when Christopher sent the picture to Tyrell, he probably was on the job and knew that he was sending the picture to somebody who was in City Hall.

Tyrell recognized Christopher in the semi nude pic and asked for advice about what to do from Brandee Anderson, Philadelphia’s chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer. Apparently, another person was in the same room with Tyrell and Brandee when Tyrell showed the picture.

Brandee reported the incident to the office of human resources.

Human resources referred the matter to the Philadelphia office of the inspector general, which investigated Brandee. The end result of the investigation was that Brandee was going to be fired for violating the sexual harassment policy. Brandee ask what policy she violated, and she was not advised of an answer. But she was told that she exercised, poor judgment by letting the other person remain in the conversation when the semi nude picture was first showed to her.

End result: Brandee and Tyrell are fired. Christopher (pictured below) keeps his job.

That's a disgrace, R18. There needs to be more outcry about it but the gays of DL only see "grifters" when their fellow gays are marginalized and fired.

^^^I just do not care^^^

Philly City Hall is like "SODOM& GOMORRAH" in an ugly dirty white building!! They have been doing that shit for years in there. Black, Brown are not colors on a Rainbow! Where is our "closeted ex-mayor Miss Kenney" been lately?

Is this really such a huge scandal? Please.

Is anyone hot in this story?

[Quote] Tyrell recognized Christopher in the semi nude pic and asked for advice about what to do from Brandee Anderson, Philadelphia’s chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer.

So basically both guys had their Sniffies apps on at work. Why would Tyrell ask for advice about what to do when he himself is looking at the app at work?

"But how can we blame the victims [italic]more[/italic]?"

Who exactly is a victim in this story?

The taxpayer, r25.

Polite society.

At my company, if an employee told me that he received an unsolicited semi naked picture from a manager, director, or executive, I would be in trouble for not reporting that to ethics and compliance.

It is the lowest of low hanging fruit in a corporate environment, even if you are not the person involved. Once somebody escalates to you, then you have to do something.

If Brandee did nothing and this issue escalated internally anyway, she would get in trouble for doing nothing.

Brandee was fucked when Tyrell showed her the pic.

How is a Sniffies picture “unsolicited”?

The problem was that he showed the picture when he himself was on the app looking for sex himself.

[quote]There needs to be more outcry about it but the gays of DL only see "grifters" when their fellow gays are marginalized and fired.

We’re supposed to be outraged on behalf of an idiot who knowingly broke the rules?

Who said it was Sniffies? That’s more of a web site than an app even though I know they’re trying to get one going. Most suppliers won’t let their be one because it’s so sketchy.

How is receiving a photo a fireable act but sending it isn't?

I can’t even warp my head around it, but frankly, I can’t WAIT until that horrid witch, Parker, is out of office, worst mayor EVER

Receiving the photo is not a fireable offense.

Being told by a junior person about receiving the photo… That is fireable either way it goes in Philadelphia.

If you tell, you are upsetting City Hall’s policy of omertà. If you do not tell, you are the scapegoat when it inevitably comes out. What kind of leader fails to protect protect a junior employee?!?!?!

And so, in either event, you are fired.

[Quote] Who said it was Sniffies? That’s more of a web site than an app even though I know they’re trying to get one going. Most suppliers won’t let their be one because it’s so sketchy.

Just guessing as it have exact location info. Most other apps have moved away from exact location

Can you even imagine the endless busywork in these "LGBT+ DEI" offices?

[quote] Just guessing as it have exact location info.

Sniffies doesn’t. It hides your location by moving you 2 blocks from your actual location. Grindr shows how close you are.

Sniffies does however have entire meeting spots. Maybe it was in the building.

From a post on r/philadelphia:

[quote]Sequence of events:

[quote]* Tyrell Brown was using "gay cruising app" in an anonymous mode. He admitted that he didn't feel threatened.

[quote]* He got a "semi-nude" photo from Christopher Dailey who sent this photo to an anonymous profile.

[quote]* Tyrell decides to share this photo with Brandee Anderson and in front of another employee.

[quote]* Brandee Anderson, knowing that Tyrell didn't feel threatened, was using an anonymous account, and got a "semi-nude" photo from another staffer who likely didn't know he was sending it to Tyrell, decides to escalate this photo to HR.

[quote]* HR tells Brandee that it should have been shut down.

[quote]* Brandee states, “It’s not lost on me that in all of this the two Black leaders who did not engage in poor judgement … that we were let go."

[quote]I don't know how someone looks at this sequence of events and thinks that Brown and Anderson did the right thing. They shared a private life photo with a 3rd party employee and with HR. That's bad judgment.

[quote]Dailey sending a "semi-nude" in his private life on a hookup app is none of anyone's business. Brown decided to cruise the app himself on anonymous mode and then made it a work issue. Anderson failed to stop him and further made the problem a bigger by sharing it with HR and allowed the photo to be shown to another employee.

Gurrrl please

I want to see the slut’s picture.

None of this seems like grounds for dismissal to me.

Nobody should have been fired for this. They should have received warnings and then everyone should have moved on. Nothing about this was fireable for anyone.

Cherelle Parker is one of the worst Philly mayors in memory and if you're not familiar, believe me, that is saying a LOT. You can tell the types cheering this on and claiming this is a valid outcome know nothing about how our city is run.

I know you can use Sniffies in private mode to remain anonymous. Can you do the same with Grindr?

I still think it’s Sniffies

This is the stupidest “scandal” I’ve heard of in a while