On Friday, the mayor of Cherellle L. Parker mentioned the NON -PROFIT Tyrell Brown leader as a up-to-date director of the city of LGBTQ+ Affairs, a post that will probably place Brown in the spotlight in the coming years due to the attacks of President Donald Trump on the community that the office serves.
“I am ready to do this work with our community, for our community, that our community is safer, more and more fair,” said Brown at the City Hall press conference, at which Parker announced his appointment next to six other older administrative officials.
The office, which Philly voters in 2015 added the city’s rule to the card, cooperates with urban agencies to “improve LGBTQ+ to services” and develops the rules “regarding civil rights affecting LGBTQ+ persons”, in accordance with its website.
Over the past two years, Brown has been the executive director of Galaei, from Philadelphia “Queer, Trans, Black, Brown, Indigenous and Lud of Color, a radical organization of social justice, supporting the community of Latine/A/O/X during the expansion of our embrace”, “,”, ” According to his mission.
Brown, who passes by you and unsuccessfully led a representative of the state in 2022, has connections with the progressive wing of democratic policy, which calls the party’s establishment to a more aggressive approach to Trump. But on Friday, neither Brown nor Parker mentioned the president by name, who is in line with Parker’s approach to federal policy since Trump returned to the White House.
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This year, Trump has reversed the executive order to protect LGBTQ Americans from discrimination and tried, among others, to prohibit transgends people in the army.
“We all know that the environment in which we are currently currently living was a bit complex and uncertain,” said Parker on Friday. “And just like I got involved in the inhabitants of Philadelphia that I would be focused on the laser in the agenda, that they chose me to deliver … I think that it is equally vital to protect the rights of each philadelphians, regardless of their race, class, socio-economic status, blocking code, religion, sexual orientation or sexual identity or identity.
Brown is the first person who plays this role permanently since Celena Morrison, who was appointed in 2020 by former mayor Jim Kenney, gave way to the end of last year. Morrison, who was the first transgender person who maintained his position, was on the headlines in 2024 after the State Police in Pennsylvania during the controversial stopping of the movement, which Parker described as “very disturbing”.
During the mayor’s race in 2023, Brown supported the former member city council of Helen Gym, progressive, and criticized a more moderate Parker, who defeated the gym in a democratic Primary before he broke into victory in November.
Brown, who said they had “friends in the entire political spectrum,” she said it was a merit for Parker, that she looked through their story in the mayor’s race.
“It simply appeals to her vision and the desire to create a more diverse city,” said Brown, whose annual salary is USD 110,000. “I am not renting a variety just because I am black and non -longe.
Parker’s administrative meetings
Parker, who took office in January 2024, was slow to fill the highest ranks of his administration, and some key roles still do not have permanent, including the Department of Behavioral Health and intellectual disability, and the Office of Immigrants, which was missing from Amy Eusebio resigned in January in January.
“As I noticed earlier, we will not hurry in this process,” said Parker. “I want to make sure that we will receive the best person for each position in our administration, and this takes time.”
Parker meetings on Friday are two new department leaders who are basic functions for the city’s government, as well as several new positions created by Parker.
Ronald L. Hovey will be a new commissioner for orders in the city, supervising purchases and contracts. Hovey had previously served older roles of orders at NJ Transit and Amtrak. Hovey’s salary is $ 206,000.
Joseph Brasky’s government veteran will continue to act as a public real estate commissioner, which he did in a temporary character. Brasky will earn USD 195,000 a year.
Patricia Wellenbach will be the director of the administration strategy and partnership, which according to Parker will be the key to the development of partnership with the philanthropic community to support administration priorities, such as the purpose of building the mayor or maintaining 30,000 housing units. Wellenbach, whose city salary will be $ 196,000, was the president and general director of the Touch Museum at Fairmount Park and acts as chairman of the board Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health.
“I think there is a solution to every problem,” said Wellenbach. “I believe in the mayor who is looking for balanced solutions, not transformational, and I hope that I will bring my ability as a convector and colleague to create a synergy between philanthropic, civic communities, not only in Philadelphia, but larger. We must prove it at home first.
Parker tapped Andy’s Toy to conduct efforts for racial prejudice in domestic valuations as a director of a home assessment program in the planning and development department. Toy was previously a political director at Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations. Toy’s salary is $ 112,000.
Nadir Jones will be the director of the influence and diversity of business suppliers, the newly created position in the Business and Economic Development Office. Jones, who was previously a diversity manager at the CBRE Group commercial property company, will receive USD 182,000 a year.
Robin M. Torrelce will be the director of the involvement of Pan-Hellenice and HBCu in the office of the mayor of the neighborhood and the involvement of the community. The torrene, which was previously Philly Public Schoolteacher, recently worked as a coordinator of social schools at the mayor’s education office. The torrene will earn $ 90,000.
Engaging with historically black universities and universities, as well as black brotherhoods and brotherhoods is a priority for Parker, who is a member of Delta Sigma Theta and has a bachelor at the University of Lincoln.
“Those organizations, which we call” divine nine “in the city of Philadelphia, play such an important role in providing access to higher possibilities and educational services,” said Parker, referring to nine organizations that make up the National PAN-Hellenic Council. “We hope that all these member organizations and individual members together with the graduate of HBCu can use this activity here in the city Philadelphia. “
