Perry Ellis by Duckie Brown Spring/Summer 2013

U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres came to Wednesday’s House Financial Services Committee hearing not to trade pleasantries with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. He came with a ledger, receipts, and a constitutional question the Trump administration has tried to keep safely abstract. What followed was the kind of cross-examination that has become Torres’s signature: data-forward, tightly paced, and indifferent to evasions. Both Torres and Bessent are out gay men who have, in different ways, been treated as symbols of LGBTQ+ representation in federal power. Keep Reading →