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.
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- RCHIE TORR BE FIRST GAY AO LATO ELECTED TO CONGRS
- REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY ON BEG GAY TMPLAND
- FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
- TWO NEW YORK PROGRSIV HAVE BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK PEOPLE ELECTED TO CONGRS.
- US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN
- GEE SANTOS ARRIVED WASHGTON THIS WEEK. NO ONE IS MORE RILED THAN N.Y.'S OTHER GAY NGRSMAN.
RCHIE TORR BE FIRST GAY AO LATO ELECTED TO CONGRS
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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.
”Mulls sisted his now-leted ment was reference to Torr’ “dangero polici and worldview, ” not his out polician has also squared off agast fellow Cy Council member Ruben Diaz Sr., his opponent the, 77, a Pentestal mister, has referred to gay people as “cursed” and voted agast legalizg same-sex marriage 2009 and 2011 as a member of the New York State Senate. Last year, Diaz scribed the New York Cy Council, which has five openly LGBTQ members, as beg "ntrolled by the homosexual muny. ”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.
REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY ON BEG GAY TMPLAND
”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. New York's first openly gay Member of Congrs, Rep.
FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
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.
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.
TWO NEW YORK PROGRSIV HAVE BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK PEOPLE ELECTED TO CONGRS.
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. “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. 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.
US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN
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.
GEE SANTOS ARRIVED WASHGTON THIS WEEK. NO ONE IS MORE RILED THAN N.Y.'S OTHER GAY NGRSMAN.
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. 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.
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.