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.
Contents:
- RCHIE TORR BE FIRST GAY AO LATO ELECTED TO CONGRS
- MONDAIRE JON JOS RCHIE TORR AS FIRST GAY BLACK MEN ELECTED TO CONGRS
- FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
- REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY ON BEG GAY TMPLAND
- 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
- IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN
RCHIE TORR BE FIRST GAY AO LATO ELECTED TO CONGRS
Torr, the first gay Ao-Lato Congrs, serv New York's 15th Congrsnal District, the untry's poort. * gay ny congressman *
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.
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MONDAIRE JON JOS RCHIE TORR AS FIRST GAY BLACK MEN ELECTED TO CONGRS
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FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
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"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. 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 won his seat om New York's 15th Congrsnal District November, he beme the first gay Black member of Congrs — an honor he soon shared wh Mondaire Jon, whose electn the 17th District was lled hours wasn't the first time Torr, a Democrat, had ma history: In 2013, Torr, then 25, beme the youngt member of the New York Cy Council — as well as the first openly gay lawmaker om the when he took office January, he said, he still felt "the weight of history" on his shoulrs. In the Democratic primary for the 15th Congrsnal District, he faced off agast fellow Cy Council member Ruben Diaz Sr., a Pentestal mister who has referred to gay people as "cursed.
REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY ON BEG GAY TMPLAND
In 2019, Diaz plaed that the Cy Council, which had five LGBTQ members at the time, was "ntrolled by the homosexual muny. 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. I., and the first openly gay mayor of a state pal -- has reprented Rho Island's First Congrsnal District sce 2011.
TWO NEW YORK PROGRSIV HAVE BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK PEOPLE ELECTED TO CONGRS.
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.
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US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN
Maloney is the send openly gay ngrsman to be married while office the Uned Stat. Most are Democrats, and anti-Tmp fervor spurred many to Kirkpatrick for The New York TimThe number of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr elected officials has ntued to surge, growg by about 17 percent the last year to nearly 1, 000 natnwi — more than double the number jt four years ago, acrdg to a new annual ranks now clu two ernors, two Uned Stat senators, ne members of Congrs, 189 state legislators and 56 mayors, acrdg to the report om the L. Parker was one of the first openly gay mayors of a major Amerin is the fifth year that the stute has surveyed the natn, and total L.
IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN
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.
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.