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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued new guidelines on March 31 requiring the collection of LGBTQ identifying data to improve data collection on small business lending for LGBTQ-owned businesses.

placed in the same district as fellow Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, another openly gay member of Congress — and powerful head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.Despite living in the new 17th Congressional District, most of Maloney’s old constituents live in the new 18th District, yet Maloney insisted on running where he resides. Rather than challenge Maloney in a primary, Jones decided to relocate to the new, incumbent-free 10th Congressional District located in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.

On Tuesday, Democratic House members released their plan for a “Transgender Bill of Rights” in an attempt to provide federal protections for transgender and gay Americans.The bill will attempt to codify the Supreme Court’s 2020 Bostock v. Clayton County decision, which established employee protections for gay and transgender workers. If passed, the bill would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include gay and trans people.The amended Act would ban conversion therapy, protection for gender identity and sex characteristics, and expand access to gender-affirming care. In addition, the bill would require the attorney general to designate a liaison to oversee the enforcement of civil rights for transgender people while also investing in services to prevent anti-transgender violence.Washington Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Co-Chair of the Transgender Equality Task Force, was a major player in getting the bill created. “As state legislatures across the country target our trans community with hateful, bigoted, and transphobic attacks, we are standing up and saying enough is enough,” Jayapal said in a joint statement with David Cicilline (RI), Marie Newman (IL), Mark Takano (CA), and Ritchie Torres (NY).

slap heard ’round the world, Bowman tweeted: “Teachable moment: Don’t joke about a Black woman’s hair.” Sent before the telecast was over, the Democrat from New York soon deleted the tweet – which of course lives on eternally in .jpeg form.Former Guardian and Daily Beast journalist Ben Jacobs captured the tweet before Bowman zapped it, later adding that he was “told” (source not disclosed) that Bowman’s “staff” thought at the time that the slap was merely a joke. (How a theoretically scripted fake feud could be leveraged as a culturally sensitive teachable moment was evidently not clarified by said staff.)Have been told that this was tweeted by staff on the congressman's account under the assumption that the assault was fake/scripted https://t.co/Ol3cmBTIRYBowman was joined in the chorus of two by Ayanna Pressley, who has good authority to speak on the appropriateness of Rock’s joke – the Democrat from Massachusetts herself has alopecia and, like Jada Pinkett Smith, proudly rocks a bald pate as a result.“#Alopecia nation stand up! Thank you #WillSmith,” she wrote.

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Joe Biden win (praise the lord, the four-year nightmare is nearing an end), we decided to celebrate the historic wins across the nation for the LGBTQ community, including Sarah McBride, who became the first openly trans person in the United States elected to a state Senate seat, after winning her Delaware race on Tuesday by a huge margin.“The biggest takeaway from this race for me is the goodness and compassion and kindness of the voters of this district, something I’ve known all my life,” McBride told Metro Weekly’s John Riley on Wednesday afternoon.Meanwhile, both Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones took their New York races as expected, though the significance of their wins cannot be diminished, as both are gay men of color headed for the

Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones made history this week by becoming the first two openly gay Black men elected to Congress.  Torres, a 32-year-old New York City Council member, handily won New York's 15th Congressional District, which covers parts of the Bronx and is one of the poorest districts in the nation.  "It is the honor of a lifetime to represent a borough filled with essential workers who have risked their lives so that New York City could live," Torres said in a statement after his victory.  "The Bronx is my home, it is what made me who I am, and it is what I will fight for in Congress." He easily won Tuesday, receiving 88% of the vote in the heavily Democratic district after besting a crowded field of 11 other candidates in the

Election Day welcomed some historic wins for representation.

Ritchie Torres. “And as the golf course was undergoing construction, it unleashed a skunk infestation on the public housing development.

Atlanta Rev. Kim Jackson has been nominated for LGBTQ Nation’s Up and Coming Politician of the Year Award.

cut $1 billion from the NYPD’s $6 billion operating budget. “COREY JOHNSON wanna be Mayor, one of many clowns comprising NYC elected officials,” the union tweeted. “He is Responsible for many murders, shootings & violent crimes in NYC.

Associated Press.Additionally, some voters who attempted to vote absentee were given incomplete instructions that failed to mention that voters had to sign the envelope in a specific location on the envelope (not designated or highlighted) so it would be matched with a voter signature on file, or were told they could drop off their ballots at certain polling locations, only to find election officials who were uncertain about what to do with said ballots.As a result, nearly 1 in 5 absentee ballots were rejected, affecting several close races, most notably the 12th Congressional District Democratic primary between U.S. Rep.

A member of the New York City Council is poised to become the first LGBTQ Latino person of African descent elected to Congress after he appears to have won his primary on Tuesday.

made national headlines after a video he shot of a white woman in Central Park calling the police on him following a dispute over her failure to keep her dog on a leash is using his temporary platform to endorse New York City Councilman Ritchie Torres for an open congressional seat in the South Bronx.Cooper, an openly gay East Village resident, has a history of LGBTQ activism, including participating in a counter-protest against a 2011 rally held by then-State Sen. Ruben Díaz, Sr.

Related: Openly gay Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres to run for CongressThe problem, though, is that while Lopez, Torres, and the others compete for the same pool of voters, they risk fracturing the field and allowing the anti-LGBTQ Diaz — a longtime politico who not only benefits from name recognition in his own right, but his son’s status as Bronx Borough president (and the party apparatus behind him) — to romp to victory by consolidating more socially conservative Democratic voters.Diaz — who, notably, says he hasn’t decided between voting for Joe Biden or Donald Trump in November — opposes the Equality Act and has been involved in efforts to block marriage equality or LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws, both in the State Senate and as a New