"People were fightg for the rights long before Stonewall," Aaron Marc of History Colorado said of the state's early gay activists.
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To see the full list, vis]When Aaron Marc' great uncle, Clay, would tell him about livg as a young gay man Denver the 1940s, Marc was stck by the acceptance that his late relative said characterized his experienc. His life was pretty amazg, " said Marc, 50, who is also gay.
"Proof of early activism is found the earlit artifact Marc has llected so far: a 1971 poster advertisg meetgs of Denver Gay Liberatn, one of the state's first LGBTQ-foced groups. ""One of the unfortunate nsequenc of that is that gay-bashg creased, " he said of Amendment 2. "Marc me out as gay to his fay and iends jt before the 1992 vote so that they knew their vot "would have a direct impact on my life, " he said.
In 2008, the Legislature passed statewi LGBTQ nondiscrimatn laws (about 20 stat still do not have them), and the followg year, voters elected Pat Steadman — an openly gay man — as a state senator; Steadman went on to help legalize civil unns Colorado before the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the U. In 2018, voters elected the untry's first openly gay ernor, Jared Polis, as well as the state's first openly transgenr reprentative, Brianna Tone, who also participated a History Colorado oral history project this studied history as an unrgraduate at Metropolan State Universy of Denver and took graduate urs public history at the Universy of Colorado Denver before he joed History Colorado as a rearcher 2008.