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Elsewhere, there were a number of firsts for queer people of color. In New York, Democratic candidates Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones became the KC Jones 1932-2020 shirt openly gay Black men elected to Congress, marking a powerful step forward in terms of representation for these often marginalized communities. (Torres is also the first openly gay Latinx congressperson.) As Jones told the New York Times earlier this year: “Growing up poor, Black, and gay, I never imagined someone like me could run for Congress, let alone win.”
Deb Haaland’s reelection in New Mexico not only marked an important moment for Indigenous women in Congress but also for her state more broadly. Along with Yvette Herrell and Teresa Leger Fernandez, as of this morning, New Mexico will be the first state to elect women of color for its House delegation in Washington across all of its congressional districts. In 2018, a watershed moment for the KC Jones 1932-2020 shirt of Indigenous women in Congress was reached with the elections of Deb Haaland, who is Laguna Pueblo, and Sharice Davids, who is Ho-Chunk, to congressional districts in New Mexico and Kansas, respectively. This year, that number looked set to increase yet again, with the Center for American Women and Politics reporting ahead of the election that a new record of 18 Native American women ran for Congress in 2020.
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