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- TORR TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAN TO SERVE CONGRS
- US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN
TORR TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MAN TO SERVE CONGRS
A young, Bronx Democrat will be among the first openly gay, Black members of Congrs, voters New York cid Tuday as they st their fal vot an electn held amid a panmic and a natnal bate over racial jtice. Rults were still pendg a race volvg another gay, Black New Yorker, Mondaire Jon, who is nng for a seat reprentg the suburbs north of the cy. Openly gay whe people have served Congrs sce the 1980s, as well as at least one Black ngrswoman who chose not to speak publicly about her sexualy, the late U.
US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN
The first openly gay person to reprent New York Congrs, U. 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.
”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. "I have been gay my entire life, sce I was a child. Though some of that live big ci n feel like half of the world is gay, 's a stark difference om many livg small towns.