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Dec 31, 2020 · Ritchie Torres, the first Afro-Latino, out-LGBTQ politician in Congress, talks about poverty, depression, ambition, contracting COVID, de Blasio’s “incompetence,” and the Squad. Tim Teeman ...
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Nov. 4, 2020, 6:29 AM PST. By Dan Avery. Ritchie Torres has won his House race for New York’s 15th Congressional District, making him the first gay Afro Latino person elected to Congress. Torres...
Oct 7, 2020 · Ritchie Torres Is About to Make LGBTQ+ History in Congress. "You're about to have the gayest Congress in the history of the United States," the New Yorker says. Jeffrey Masters. October 07...
- Jeffrey Masters
Jun 1, 2021 · When Rep. Ritchie Torres won his seat from New York's 15th Congressional District in November, he became the first gay Black member of Congress — an honor he soon shared with Mondaire Jones ...
- Dan Avery
Biography. Representative Ritchie Torres is a fighter from the Bronx who has spent his entire life working for the community he calls home. Like many people in the Bronx, poverty and struggle have never been abstractions to him, and he governs from a place of lived experience. Ritchie’s mother single-handedly raised him, his twin brother, and ...
Apr 2, 2024 · Congressman Ritchie Torres’s first trip abroad, ever, was to Israel — as a newly elected 26-year-old member of the New York City Council, nine years ago. ... Look, I feel the relationship, the ...
Ritchie John Torres (born March 12, 1988) is an American politician from New York. [1] [2] A member of the Democratic Party, Torres is the U.S. representative for New York's 15th congressional district. [3] The district covers most of the South Bronx. It is one of the smallest districts by area in the country, covering only a few square miles.
