Is Gays Against Groomers Executive Director putting members in danger?
Leaked messages show members expressed ongoing concern about Frank Rodriguez and his leadership of the organization.
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Last week, I wrote a three-part series based on speaking with seven whistleblowers from Gays Against Groomers to show you what is really going on inside this young, high-profile organization.
Well, to be a bit more accurate, I wrote one article about the whistleblowers and then two follow-up articles about the Twitter meltdown the founder of the organization, Jaimee Michell, had following the release of the first article, including engaging in a smear campaign against me to deflect from the content of the first article.
Because professionally run non-profit organizations are usually run by people who have days-long Twitter meltdowns and engage in smear campaigns.
Well, as that was happening, I got another batch of screenshots from the whistleblowers who worked with the organization.
This article, which will be the final one I am planning, I’ll walk you through those documents.
You’ll have to decide for yourself what you think about how professionally the organization is being run, and what that means regarding their ability to make an impact on the problems they claim to care about.
The “Oh Hell Nah” Club
As I covered in a previous article, members of Gays Against Groomers communicate almost entirely via telegram chats.
At one point, several of them got so fed up with what they were experiencing that they created another chat called the “Oh Hell Nah” club where they would spend their time complaining about the organization’s leadership.
I’m going to show you what was discussed in the “Oh Hell Nah” club. But first, here’s a helpful primer on the names you will see in these messages:
Deb is a whistleblower who was fired from Gays Against Groomers after she told other members that the founder, Jaimee, never wanted trans people involved with the organization. Jamiee then got in a public Twitter fight with Deb. This was all documented in the first article in this series.
Mario is Gays Against Groomers Director of Chapters.
Meg is the organization’s Associate Communications Director.
Jen is Meg’s wife and is also involved with the organization.
Frank is the organization’s Executive Director.
Remember, no one in the organization is in a paid position - they are all volunteers.
Apparently, businesses in Long Beach, California feel that Executive Director Frank is harassing them.
In part 2 and part 3 of the articles I covered in this series, I was repeatedly attacked by GAG’s founder Jaimee for having a different spiritual belief system than she does.
But as it turns out, Jaimee’s Associate Director of Communications has very similar beliefs, even talking to spirit and passing along messages. I always find it ironic when individuals use someone’s spiritual beliefs as a weapon, only to discover how many people close to them believe the same thing and are too afraid to voice it.
Here, Meg talks about how Jaimee is more concerned with protecting Frank than she is with doing the right thing:
It seems as though Executive Director Frank was trying to micromanage the chapter that Meg and Jen were running, and made passive-aggressive public posts that were underhandedly directed at them after they called him out for being confrontational and inflammatory.
Retaliation does seem to be deeply embedded in the DNA of the leadership of Gays Against Groomers.
And even though Frank was inflaming the situation and potentially putting members in danger, it still seems as though Meg was able to have a conversation with the bar owner and get a positive result, the first productive thing I’ve heard of Gays Against Groomers doing since I started this series:
Meg also points out that this is not the first time that Executive Director Frank jeopardized someone’s safety and made Gays Against Groomers look bad to the community:
“It makes us look exactly like those we’re fighting against”
Meg also says that members of the organization don’t even know what the Executive Director does:
And again, Jen reiterates that Frank is not doing his job.
Meg became convinced that both Frank and Mario were working against her:
And it seems that both Meg and Jen believe that Mario is putting members in danger and that Frank passive-aggressively gloats when members are reprimanded for pointing that out.
Here, Meg says Frank has a propensity to be inflammatory, never promoting peace and communication over going to war:
Here, Meg talks about ignoring the guidance from the organization and essentially using the brand to create a great chapter because they wouldn’t have a positive outcome otherwise because the organization is not providing any leadership.
It’s worth noting that the organization has since eliminated all city-level chapters, so the chapter that Meg and Jen were building in Long Beach no longer officially exists.
Meg also talks about completely disengaging in the organizational chats.
Here, they discuss not going to events because of the scrutiny they were getting. It’s unclear if she means from the organization or externally, but either way they are not pursuing events that would be helpful to the mission due to some cause that the organization has not helped them work around.
And that’s it for the “Oh Hell Nah” club.
Again, you have to judge for yourself what you think this means for Gays Against Groomers. But it seems to me that just a few short months ago, the organization’s current Associate Director of Communication, Meg, seemed to have no faith in the organization’s leadership, to the point of saying the Executive Director put her in actual danger.
For her sake, I hope things have changed since then.
But, in the ten years I’ve been practicing as an industrial/organizational psychologist, I’ve learned one equivocal truth: When organizations tell you who they are, believe them.
It’s up to you what you believe from here.
What do you think?
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