Two gay congressmen are publicly feuding & it could have major ramifications for LGBTQ people

Official Portrait of Representative Mondaire Jones
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Congressional redistricting is a bit like musical chairs, especially in states that are losing House seats. Once the music stops, there’s a mad scramble to find the remaining seats, and sometimes the going gets a bit rough.

Perhaps the most interesting example is in New York State, which is losing one seat. There, redistricting set off a fight between two gay incumbents and between the establishment and progressive wings of the Democratic party.

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Taking a page from Republicans in other states, Democrats had drawn a gerrymandered map that heavily favored the party. But a court threw the map out and appointed a neutral party to come up with the map. Suddenly, incumbents were finding themselves potentially battling for the same seat.

Congressional portrait of Sean Patrick Maloney
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Nowhere was that clearer than in the Hudson Valley, where Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney declared his interest in a seat that is made up primarily of the district represented by Rep. Mondaire Jones. Both Maloney and Jones are gay, and Jones was none too happy with Maloney’s sudden interest in what Jones saw as his district.

“Sean Patrick Maloney did not even…

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