MATTHEW LAVIETES TWO New Yorkers this week became the first gay men of colour elected to the U.S. Congress, making strides for LGBT+ rights while the U.S. presidential candidates were locked in a close national contest. Democrats Ritchie Torres, an openly gay Black and Latino man from New York City's Bronx borough, and Mondaire Jones, an openly gay Black man from a New York City suburb, won seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. "A wise person once said, 'If you don't have a seat at the table, then you're probably on the menu,'" Torres told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.…