Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres have been sworn in as the first openly gay Black and Afro-Latino congressmen in a history-making moment. The two New York Democrats, who were elected to Congress in the November election, were sworn in on Sunday (3 January) in
Ritchie Torres
Ritchie Torres, the first openly gay Afro-Latino congressman, has said the “old boys’ club” style of politics has “collapsed” with the 2020 election. The November election saw Donald Trump finally given his marching orders, with Joe Biden set to become the next president of the United States in January – but there were also a
Gay Congressional candidate Ritchie Torres has branded the head of a police union as “racist, misogynistic and homophobic” after the group called him a “first class w***e”. Torres, who is expected to win a seat in the United States House after he won his Democratic primary, made the comment after the Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA)