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- RCHIE TORR BE FIRST GAY AO LATO ELECTED TO CONGRS
- US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN
- TWO NEW YORK PROGRSIV HAVE BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK PEOPLE ELECTED TO CONGRS.
- FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
- NY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF CONGRS WS REELECTN
- MONDAIRE JON JOS RCHIE TORR AS FIRST GAY BLACK MEN ELECTED TO CONGRS
- TEACHER JABARI BRISPORT SET TO BE N.Y.'S FIRST BLACK GAY STATE SENATOR
- REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY ON BEG GAY TMPLAND
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- HERE ARE THE SENATORS WHO VOTED AGAST AMERI’S FIRST GAY CABET SECRETARY
- FOR ALABAMA’S ONLY GAY LAWMAKER, A POLIL DEFEAT WAS DEEPLY PERSONAL
RCHIE TORR BE FIRST GAY AO LATO ELECTED TO CONGRS
Sean Patrick Maloney is a Democratic ngrsman currently servg as the U.S. Reprentative for New York's 18th ngrsnal district sce 2013. Learn about his teemed reer begng when he entered polics as a volunteer for Bill Clton's printial mpaign. While servg the Clton Admistratn, he was nsired one of the most fluential LGBT people ever the Whe Hoe. Read more about every b of his reer though his overg Tea Party-backed Republin cumbent Nan Hayworth to beg the first openly gay person to be elected to Congrs om New York. * new york gay senator *
Rchie Torr has won his Hoe race for New York’s 15th Congrsnal District, makg him the first gay Ao Lato person elected to was all but certa to w his ep-blue Hoe district. "Tonight we ma history, " Torr tweeted Tuday night, llg "the honor of a lifetime to reprent a borough filled wh sential workers who risked their liv so that New York Cy uld live" durg the uld be joed by Mondaire Jon, who's currently ahead his race for New York's 17th Congrsnal District, as the first gay Black members of, 32, a Bronx native, is the youngt member of the New York Cy Council, where he has advoted for better public hog and programs to addrs racially ncentrated poverty.
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US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN
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Last year, Diaz scribed the New York Cy Council, which has five openly LGBTQ members, as beg "ntrolled by the homosexual muny.
TWO NEW YORK PROGRSIV HAVE BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK PEOPLE ELECTED TO CONGRS.
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”After the ment, Torr worked wh Cy Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who is also gay, to strip Diaz of mtee is the first openly gay elected official om the Bronx and blam Diaz for fosterg a “homophobic culture” the borough. ”A rerd 26 openly gay ndidat for the Hoe and Senate were on the ballot Tuday, acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Fund, which advot for and tras out elected reprentativ.
A eply polarised US electorate has given the untry s first transgenr state senator and s first black gay ngrsman – but also s first lawmaker to have openly supported the basels QAnon nspiracy four members of the progrsive “Squad” of Democratic ngrswomen of lour – Alexandria Os-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Prsley and Rashida Tlaib – have been fortably re-elected, and Sarah McBri’s victory Delaware has ma her the hight-rankg trans official the US.
Rchie Torr will be the first Ao-Lato gay member of the US Congrs after pturg New York’s 15th district.
FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
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”Rchie Torr, 32, a cy uncillor, will be the first Ao-Lato gay member of the US Congrs after fortably pturg New York’s 15th district, ranked on the Cook Polil Report’s Partisan Voter Inx as the most Democratic district the untry.
“He was the clear standout ndidate as the youngt Lato elected to the NYC uncil, the son of a sgle workg mother om the Bronx and a champn for the sential workers of New York Cy, ” said Tony Cárnas, the chairman of Bold Pac, the Congrsnal Hispanic Cc’s mpaign Democrat Mondaire Jon, another black gay ndidate for Congrs, was clared later on Wednday the wner of his race and will follow Torr to the Hoe.
NY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF CONGRS WS REELECTN
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She mak history as Kansas's first LGBTQ member of Congrs and the first gay Native Amerin woman elected to Congrs.
MONDAIRE JON JOS RCHIE TORR AS FIRST GAY BLACK MEN 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. 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.
TEACHER JABARI BRISPORT SET TO BE N.Y.'S FIRST BLACK GAY STATE SENATOR
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.
REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY ON BEG GAY TMPLAND
Maloney was New York’s first openly gay member of Congrs when he was first elected 2012. "Growg up poor, Black and gay, I never imaged someone like me uld n for Congrs, let alone w. "Growg up poor, Black and gay, I never imaged someone like me uld n for Congrs, let alone w, " he said after handily wng a crowd eight-way primary July.
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
In November, New York Cy public school teacher Jabari Brisport, 33, is expected to bee the first Black openly gay member of the New York state Legislature. “I wrote a spoken word about supportg same-sex marriage and the fact that 's ridiculo that you wouldn't be able to be at the bedsi of someone you love the hospal jt bee you're both gay, ” he, 2009, Brisport helped anized efforts to enurage New York state lawmakers to pass legislatn that would legalize same-sex marriage.
The bill was feated, though the state would legalize gay marriage two years later.
HERE ARE THE SENATORS WHO VOTED AGAST AMERI’S FIRST GAY CABET SECRETARY
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.
FOR ALABAMA’S ONLY GAY LAWMAKER, A POLIL DEFEAT WAS DEEPLY PERSONAL
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.