Colorado’s Gay Governor Signs Gun Control Bills Into Law Wake of Club Q Shootg

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• COLORADO'S JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR, ADDRS 'HORRIFIC' SHOOTG AT AN LGBTQ CLUB
• JARED POLIS MAK HISTORY AS AMERI'S FIRST ELECTED OPENLY GAY MALE GOVERNOR
• COLORADO’S GOT A GAY GOVERNOR. WHO CAR?
• WHAT 'S LIKE BEG AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR
• COLORADO'S GAY GOVERNOR WR TAYLOR SWIFT AN EPIC OPEN LETTER
• COLORADO'S OPENLY GAY GOVERNOR SIGNS HISTORIC LGBTQ PROTECTNS INTO LAW
• POLIS, 1ST OPENLY GAY ERNOR ELECTED, MARRI COLORADO
• COLORADO ELECTS NATN’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR, CNN PROJECTS
• COLORADO DEMOCRATS JT NOMATED AN OPENLY GAY CONGRSMAN FOR GOVERNOR
• WHO IS JARED POLIS? COLORADO ELECTS NATN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY GOVERNOR
• POLIS, 1ST OPENLY GAY ERNOR ELECTED, MARRI COLORADO
• COLORADO’S GAY GOVERNOR SIGNS GUN CONTROL BILLS TO LAW WAKE OF CLUB Q SHOOTG

COLORADO'S JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR, ADDRS 'HORRIFIC' SHOOTG AT AN LGBTQ CLUB

In 2018, Polis beme the first openly gay man elected ernor the Uned Stat. Jared Polis, the first openly gay man elected ernor the Uned Stat, on Sunday cried Saturday's “horrific” adly shootg at a Colorado Sprgs LGBTQ nightclub. He first won elected office 2008 and beme, his words, “the first openly gay parent to w a seat Congrs.

In addn to beg Colorado's first openly gay ernor, he is also the state's first Jewish ernor. Jared Polis, the first openly gay man elected ernor the Uned Stat, has married his longtime partner the first same-sex marriage for a stg and Marlon Reis, who have been together for 18 years and were engaged December, wed a small tradnal Jewish ceremony Wednday, the ernor's office said. "We are both exced for this new chapter our liv together, and our hearts are full wh the blsgs of health, love, and fay, " Polis said a Facebook is the first gay man elected ernor the untry, but Oregon Gov.

Colorado Congrsman Jared Polis ma history Tuday night by beg the first openly gay man to be elected ernor of a U. ” Mary Parker, print and CEO of the Victory Fund, a natnwi anizatn that supports LGBTQ ndidat, told the Denver Post of Polis’ victory: “The fact that the state of Colorado, 25 years, has gone om beg dubbed the ‘Hate State’ to a place that n elect someone who is not jt openly gay, but publicly gay, that’s historic.

JARED POLIS MAK HISTORY AS AMERI'S FIRST ELECTED OPENLY GAY MALE GOVERNOR

Benjam Rasmsen for The New York TimColorado elected a rich, gay, Jewish ernor. — On Tuday, the first openly gay man elected ernor Amerin history was sworn , his partner at his si.

Constuents voted for him by a more-than-10-pot marg, a state whose swg on gay rights the last three s n be scribed as a plete about-face.

Even Colorado, once known as the “Hate State” for s anti-gay polici, Mr.

COLORADO’S GOT A GAY GOVERNOR. WHO CAR?

Polis's gayns was “tertgly untertg to voters, ” as the nservative lumnist Gee F. Polis, 43, a five-term ngrsman om a district that clus Boulr and Fort Colls as well as ral and mounta muni, has been shgggly, who-r gay for years.

He do not nform to the clichéd gay stereotyp: He’s a techie nerd wh thng hair and an ungymmed physique, ever-prent blue sneakers and a wtern belt.

WHAT 'S LIKE BEG AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR

Polis was first elected to Congrs 2008, though, the ual prenceptns about gay men preced him. “All gay men are stylish, they dance well, they yada yada yada. The last gay ernor, Jim McGreevey of New Jersey, stepped down after announcg both his gayns and the affair that led to his rignatn.

“There’s not a lot of gay people but they probably unrstand that. They said, ‘My hairdrser of 30 years is gay. “It filled up a whole wall, ” he of the attacks were anti-Semic rather than homophobic, Mr.

Polis mentned the anti-gay sentiment he faced durg last year’s mpaign: sign facgs Eagle County, letters to the edor Walsenburg, homophobic slurs wrten shavg cream on his r. Polis’s vated ngrsnal seat as Colorado’s first Ain-Amerin ngrsman, and Brianna Tone as the first openly transgenr state state is not a gay mec the way New York, California or Florida are perceived to be — “The district I reprent, most of the time I reprented , didn’t have a sgle gay bar, ” Mr.

COLORADO'S GAY GOVERNOR WR TAYLOR SWIFT AN EPIC OPEN LETTER

” The first major Supreme Court victory for the gay-rights movement, Romer v.

Evans, me 1996 rponse to Amendment 2, a Colorado nstutnal amendment that prohibed the passage of laws specifilly protectg gays and lbians om discrimatn. Colorado also happens to be where the first unchallenged gay marriage license was granted, 1975, by a Boulr County clerk named Clela Rorex, thanks to the vague wordg of the Colorado legal .

It may be the base of Foc on the Fay, which preach fay valu that do not clu homosexualy, headquartered Colorado Sprgs, but also home to the Matthew Shepard Foundatn, was Lakewood — jt wt of Denver — that Jack Phillips refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple at his Masterpiece Cakhop, leadg to another Supreme Court se; the urt led Mr. Polis Chang EverythgColorado’s progrs on gay rights was axed to motn by the ncerted effort of a number of wealthy and mted Coloradans — cludg Jared 1994, Tim Gill, 65, the multilnaire software veloper, tablished a foundatn and poured hundreds of lns to advocy after beg stunned by the victory at the polls of the anti-gay Amendment 2 1992.

COLORADO'S OPENLY GAY GOVERNOR SIGNS HISTORIC LGBTQ PROTECTNS INTO LAW

Gill said, two-thirds of Coloradans said they didn’t know anyone who was gay or Gill eventually extend himself and his donatns to the polil arena, and wh a like-md group of megadonors known as the Gang of Four, helped to swg Colorado’s General Assembly om Republin to Democratic 2004 — the same year that 11 stat adopted a ballot measure banng gay Gang of Four clud Mr. Gill said that while he long believed there would be a gay ernor the U. Miller, who grew up Colorado’s more nservative, red-leang Wtern Slope, the electn of a gay ernor was all the more satisfyg for beg his own state.

POLIS, 1ST OPENLY GAY ERNOR ELECTED, MARRI COLORADO

”At his guratn on Tuday, the Denver Gay Men’s Chos warmed up wh “Te Colors” (Cyndi Lper, who first rerd , was booked for the gural ball that night) before remarks om lol gran and fah lears and the new officials were sworn . It is Eagle County, not Summ we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn D, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Ameri’s Gay Governor.

COLORADO ELECTS NATN’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR, CNN PROJECTS

The breakout star of the ntt to bee the Democratic party’s nomee the 2020 race for the Whe Hoe is Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and the first openly gay elected official to n for print. ”In 1978, jt 26% of Amerins said they would vote for a gay or lbian ndidate, acrdg to pollster Gallup. There is livg proof of this warp speed transformatn Colorado, which ls than three s has gone om notoriety as a homophobic “hate state” to electg Ameri’s first openly gay ernor.

“This is a much higher-profile posn, and of urse nng as an openly gay uple, that gave an even higher profile, ” says Reis. ‘This is a much higher-profile posn, and of urse nng as an openly gay uple, that gave an even higher profile. “When I was growg up there were people on televisn that reprented stereotyp of what people associated beg gay wh and was tertg, you viewed through a tunnel visn, ” he rells, addg that when he was high school, he felt “GSAs – gay straight allianc – didn’t exist; at least at my school they weren’t prent”.

She said: ‘When I signed up to have a gay bt iend I thought that you would be takg me out shoppg, ’ and I said: ‘I n’t stand shoppg. ”But would an openly gay ndidate have been nceivable when you were growg up here? I went out and bought every book on homosexualy.

COLORADO DEMOCRATS JT NOMATED AN OPENLY GAY CONGRSMAN FOR GOVERNOR

All I knew was homosexuals were creepy moltg typ. It was set up by Tim Gill, a wealthy software veloper who, along wh Polis, Pat Stryker and Rutt Bridg – Colorado’s “gang of four” – spent many lns of dollars on gay rights and other liberal , helpg turn Colorado’s general assembly om Republin to Democratic 2004.

”Polis’s sexualy was important to gay rights activists but no one else, Caldara add.

Nobody I know on the right is upset bee he’s gay; we’re upset bee he’s stroyg the state of Colorado and turng to California. ”Back at the vio rerdg, an terviewer asks him directly: “How do feel to be the first openly gay man elected ernor the Uned Stat? Eric Marc, creator and host of the Makg Gay History podst, says: “It’s a non-story but I also feel very exced ’s a non-story.

WHO IS JARED POLIS? COLORADO ELECTS NATN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY GOVERNOR

Is Ameri ready for a gay print? ”Swift then referred to her 2019 song “You Need to Calm Down” which featur lyrics like “e sha never ma anybody ls gay” and had numero LGBTQ+ celebri the song’s mic vio.

POLIS, 1ST OPENLY GAY ERNOR ELECTED, MARRI COLORADO

Colorado beme the 18th state to outlaw gay nversn therapy on Friday. The natn's first openly gay ernor signed a seri of LGBTQ protectns to law on Friday, addg his state to a host of others recent months that have moved to expand LGBTQ rights the Tmp era.

COLORADO’S GAY GOVERNOR SIGNS GUN CONTROL BILLS TO LAW WAKE OF CLUB Q SHOOTG

Democratic Governor of Colorado Jared Polis signed two bills passed by the state legislature that allow for transgenr and non-bary dividuals to more easily change the genr listed on official documents and prohib the practice of gay nversn therapy, a wily discreded approach to reformg one's sexual two measur are "an acknowledgment om the State of Colorado that beg gay is not somethg that needs to be cured, " acrdg to State Senator Steve Fenberg, one of the bills' -sponsors who spoke wh Newsweek jt after the signg ceremony.

Colorado is now the 18th state to outlaw gay nversn therapy for mors, jog LGBTQ advot and the medil muny rebg a practice seen as scientifilly unsound and harmful to patients.