New York's first openly gay member of Congrs got hched on Saturday. First-term Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney wed his longtime partner Randy Florke at…
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- REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY ON BEG GAY TMPLAND
- GAY REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY NCES FEAT
- MEET SEAN PATRICK MALONEY, THE GAY CONGRSMAN FIGHTG OFF A GOP HOE
- REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY SEEKS TO BEE FIRST OUT GAY DCCC CHAIR
- HOE DEMS PICK OPENLY GAY LAWMAKER TO LEAD MPAIGN ARM
- 1ST OPENLY GAY NY CONGRSMAN WEDS LONGTIME PARTNER
REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY ON BEG GAY TMPLAND
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) has set his sight on beg the next chair of the Democratic Congrsnal Campaign Commtee, which would make him the first openly gay lear of the polil arm for Hoe Democrats if elected. * patrick maloney gay *
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.
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.
GAY REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY NCES FEAT
The openly gay New York ngrsman wed his longtime partner, Randy Gene Florke, at the Church of St. Mary--the-Highlands Cold Sprg. * patrick maloney gay *
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.
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.
MEET SEAN PATRICK MALONEY, THE GAY CONGRSMAN FIGHTG OFF A GOP HOE
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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.
REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY SEEKS TO BEE FIRST OUT GAY DCCC CHAIR
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. Out gay Rep. Mondaire Jon (D-NY), who is currently reprentg New York’s 17th and is one of the first Black and gay members of Congrs, chose not to face Maloney and stead ran the primary the 10th Congrsnal District, where he lost to Daniel Goldman.
HOE DEMS PICK OPENLY GAY LAWMAKER TO LEAD MPAIGN ARM
Maloney, a 56-year-old gay ngrsman om New York's Hudson Valley, chairs the Democratic Congrsnal Campaign Commtee and is tasked wh keepg Nancy Pelosi or another Democrat as speaker of the Hoe and send le to the princy.
1ST OPENLY GAY NY CONGRSMAN WEDS LONGTIME PARTNER
"He faced tra-party cricism when many assumed he was nng agast a fellow gay ngrsman, Mondaire Jon, after a judge scrambled New York ngrsnal districts (Jon is now nng a different district, while Maloney is nng a renfigured 17th Congrsnal District).
"If people get angry at their iends or engage some circular firg squad, we will only strengthen the people who hate , " he a powerful ngrsman married to a man and parentg three kids of differg rac, Maloney himself is a high-profile target of homophob.
"[Beg a gay father] priv me of any illn that my fay fs the world the Republin Party wants to create, " he says. He was asked, if the state Legislature passed a bill makg gay marriage legal, whether he would sign .