Meet the 10 Gay, Lbian, and Bisexual Members of the 116th Congrs

Contents:

• NY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF CONGRS WS REELECTN
• FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
• REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY ON BEG GAY TMPLAND
• GAY MAGA CONGRSMAN-ELECT GEE SANTOS ALLEGEDLY LIED ABOUT HIS ENTIRE PAST
• 2--5 RINTS CONSIR LEAVG FLORIDA OVER “DON’T SAY GAY”
• QUEENS NGRSMAN-ELECT TALKS JAN. 6, BEG A GAY REPUBLIN
• GEE SANTOS ARRIVED WASHGTON THIS WEEK. NO ONE IS MORE RILED THAN N.Y.'S OTHER GAY NGRSMAN.

NY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF CONGRS WS REELECTN

Maloney was New York’s first openly gay member of Congrs when he was first elected 2012. The first openly gay Republin elected to Congrs said he won a Long Island Hoe seat by nng a “mon sense” platform.

Santos will bee the first openly gay Republin elected to the Hoe — a handful of other ndidat me out after they were elected. His Democratic opponent, Robert Zimmerman, also is gay.

FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE

But one LGBT activist argued was a “disgrace” for an out gay person to align himself wh the Republin Party that has fought agast gay rights. I., and the first openly gay mayor of a state pal -- has reprented Rho Island's First Congrsnal District sce 2011.

She mak history as Kansas's first LGBTQ member of Congrs and the first gay Native Amerin woman elected to Congrs. Gay ngrsman Sean Patrick Maloney won reelectn 2018 to ntue reprentg New York's 18th District. Mark Pon is a gay polician and former small-bs owner who first took office the U.

New York's first openly gay Member of Congrs, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney may not be New York’s only openly gay member of Congrs for long. In fact, as of 2021, he may not even be the only openly gay member of Congrs the Hudson Valley.

REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY ON BEG GAY TMPLAND

If the prelimary rults om Tuday’s Democratic primari hold once absentee ballots are unted, then Mondaire Jon, reprentg Rockland County and much of neighborg Wtchter County, and Rchie Torr the South Bronx uld be the first openly gay Black members of Congrs. “I have drawn spiratn om the historic nature of (Maloney’s) stat as an openly gay member of Congrs New York, ” Jon told Cy & State after Electn Day about the man he nsirs a mentor. ”Y, New York’s first openly gay ngrsnal reprentative isn’t om Manhattan.

But he was gay a state that had jt legalized same-sex marriage 2011, and he had jt moved to the district the year before. Maloney has managed to be both relatively nonpartisan his approach to ernance and an advote for gay rights, acrdg to Tim Massie, a Maloney ally who liv the district and works ernment relatns.

GAY MAGA CONGRSMAN-ELECT GEE SANTOS ALLEGEDLY LIED ABOUT HIS ENTIRE PAST

“I like the fact that I have an openly gay ngrsman fightg for basic human rights for my hband and me and every other member of the LGBTQ+ muny, ” Massie told Cy & State.

Supreme Court’s lg a landmark se that extend anti-discrimatn protectns to gay, lbian and transgenr employe the workplace.

“I had a big gay weddg  the middle of my first re-electn mpaign that I won by ls than two pots.

2--5 RINTS CONSIR LEAVG FLORIDA OVER “DON’T SAY GAY”

Well, I had a big gay weddg the middle of my first reelectn mpaign that I won by ls than 2 pots, so you tell me. They marry gay ts the chapel at Wt Pot. So no, I don't worry about beg a gay man supportg progrsive issu a district that is 25% ary fai.

So I thk that beg a Tmp district, as a gay man wh an terracial fay, foc me on buildg relatnships and alns so that I n have more pacy than I would by myself.

In November, Gee Santos beme the first openly gay Republin elected to Congrs. Durg his most recent succsful mpaign, Santos said that abortn is as barbaric as slavery and has voiced support for Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. ”The Daily Beast has reported that Santos, who has intified as gay, was divorced om a woman September 2019.

QUEENS NGRSMAN-ELECT TALKS JAN. 6, BEG A GAY REPUBLIN

In his closed-door posn last month, Ziegler told lawmakers that he is gay, and phed back agast the notn om some right-wg figur that his sexual orientatn fluenc his polics or his job. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda.

There was another velopment late last week as well, as the Daily Beast reported that Santos — who told voters he was married to a man and the first openly gay Republin to seek office on Long Island — got a divorce om a woman jt three years ago. ”Sheryl Gay Stolberg is a Washgton Corrponnt verg health policy. More about Sheryl Gay StolbergA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 15 of the New York edn wh the headle: Virologists Deny to Panel That Fci Swayed Report Agast Lab Leak Theory.

GEE SANTOS ARRIVED WASHGTON THIS WEEK. NO ONE IS MORE RILED THAN N.Y.'S OTHER GAY NGRSMAN.

Randy Florke, Essie Maloney Florke, Sean Patrick Maloney, Daley Maloney Florke, and Reel Florke on June 21, SCHLEBUSCH / CourtyJune 23, 2014, 1:53 AM UTC / Updated June 23, 2014, 1:47 AM UTCNew York’s first openly gay ngrsman was married Patrick Maloney, a Democrat elected to New York’s 18th Congrsnal District 2012, married his longtime partner, Randy Florke. Maloney is the send openly gay ngrsman to be married while office the Uned Stat.

He is the first out gay man and first member of the LGBTQ+ muny overall to hold the petor for the job was Rep. He recently told CNN he found the 2020 electn rults enuragg bee "as a gay guy wh an terracial fay, I won a Tmp district five tim.

"Before nng for Congrs, Maloney was a lawyer, a technology entreprenr, a staffer Print Bill Clton's Whe Hoe -- the hight-rankg out gay man there -- and an ai to two Democratic New York ernors. "There is enormo power Congrsnal Democrats choosg an out gay man to serve as chair, pecially after an electn cycle where anti-LGBTQ attacks on ndidat beme the norm, " Annise Parker, print and CEO of the LGBTQ Victory Fund, said a statement. Congrsman-elect Gee Santos, the first openly gay Republin to be elected to Congrs as a non-cumbent, admtg to fabritg parts of his résumé and bgraphy followg a New York Tim exposé published last week.