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• GAY REPUBLIN OFFICIALS MAKE HISTORY NEW YORK. THEY DON’T RE ABOUT “INTY POLICS.”
• DEMOCRATS ASK IF GEE SANTOS IS REALLY GAY AFTER REPORT HE MARRIED WOMAN
• FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
• GEE SANTOS ARRIVED WASHGTON THIS WEEK. NO ONE IS MORE RILED THAN N.Y.'S OTHER GAY NGRSMAN.
• REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY ON BEG GAY TMPLAND
• TWO NEW YORK PROGRSIV HAVE BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK PEOPLE ELECTED TO CONGRS.
• RCHIE TORR BE FIRST GAY AO LATO ELECTED TO CONGRS

GAY REPUBLIN OFFICIALS MAKE HISTORY NEW YORK. THEY DON’T RE ABOUT “INTY POLICS.”

Two gay Republins have ma electoral history as the first out GOP policians to w office, but they’d like everyone to know that they don’t really re about .

DEMOCRATS ASK IF GEE SANTOS IS REALLY GAY AFTER REPORT HE MARRIED WOMAN

Both men thanked the GOP for overlookg that they’re gay favor of their support for nservative prcipl that would have prevented them om achievg their rpective offic durg their own lifetim.

The “gay liftyle” is only ed by relig right and hate groups and has been perceived as a slur sce the early 1990s.

“I’m proud of who I am, but my beg among the first gay Republins elected to public office New York state is only a good thg if brgs closer to the day when inty polics no longer matters and the foc is where should be, which is on how well a ndidate will do the job of servg their muny, ” Mid-Island Councilman-elect David Carr said. Ron Castora, the first out gay Republin Supreme Court judge, echoed Carr’s effive praise for the party that has spent the past year monizg transgenr children and passg numero anti-LGBTQ laws durg an terview after his victory celebratn. He went out of his way to pot out that you don’t have to support the LGBTQ muny jt bee you’re gay.

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

“You n be a gay Republin and you n still be nservative, and you don’t have to be gay the way they want you to be gay, ” he said durg his acceptance speech. You n be gay, you n be nservative and gay, and you n be an acceptg environment wh people who love and rpect you, ” he said.

I’m Ron – I’m a iend, I’m a brother, I’m a son, and I happen to be gay.

It’s not ‘I’m gay’ and all the other thgs and I thk that’s an important distctn, ” Castora told lol news after his speech. “There are lots of young nservativ who happen to be gay.

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

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.

REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY ON BEG GAY TMPLAND

Mark Pon is a gay polician and former small-bs owner who first took office the U. Some Democrats are qutng whether or not Reprentative-elect Gee Santos, a New York Republin, is gay after a report emerged that he was married to a woman. Democratic Reprentativ Rchie Torr of New York, who is openly gay, and Ted Li of California shared an article by the Daily Beast on Thursday that said Santos didn't publicly mentn a prev marriage to a woman.

I may be the only actual openly gay member of Congrs New York the New Year, " Torr tweeted on ’ve got to be kiddg me. I may be the only actual openly gay member of Congrs New York the New Year. Santos appears to have been volved an undisclosed divorce om a woman September of 2019, acrdg to urt rerds obtaed by the Daily October, Santos vowed to advote for LGBTQ dividuals and told USA Today at the time: "I am openly gay, have never had an issue wh my sexual inty the past , and I n tell you and assure you, I will always be an advote for LGBTQ folks.

Some Democrats are qutng whether or not Santos is gay after a report emerged statg that he was married to a woman. "Listen, at this pot I'm hopg he lied about beg gay bee we don't want him, " Reprentative-elect Robert Garcia, who is also openly gay, tweeted on Wednday and shared the Daily Beast article on Thursday a tweeted ment. Meanwhile, Jewish Insir published an article that ced rerds showg discrepanci his claims about his Jewish herage and that he scend om people who fled the didn't ny any of the rmatn mentned by The New York Tim, but his attorney, Joseph Murray, said a statement on Monday that the "Left" is threatened by the electn of a gay nservative Lato, acrdg to Insir.

TWO NEW YORK PROGRSIV HAVE BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK PEOPLE ELECTED TO CONGRS.

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. 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.

RCHIE TORR BE FIRST GAY AO LATO ELECTED TO CONGRS

”The Daily Beast has reported that Santos, who has intified as gay, was divorced om a woman September 2019. -elect Gee Santos, a gay New York Republin who sparked wispread nmnatn after admtg that he had lied about large swaths of his profsnal and personal life on the mpaign trail, arrived Washgton this week.

While there’s no ditn Santos has received a warm wele, no one appears more riled about than New York’s other gay ngrsman: Democratic Rep. “A gay Ao-Lato biracial Ukraian Belgian Brazilian Jewish Republin Conference. But appears no one has stck his nerve more than his gay Republin unterpart.

And they have each ma LGBTQ polil history: In November, Santos beme the first LGBTQ noncumbent Republin elected to Congrs, and two years ago, Torr beme the first gay Ao Lato person elected to was raised by a sgle mother a small apartment a public hog plex the Bronx, which he prevly said had mold, leaks, lead and nsistent heat. 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.