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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
• WHAT 'S LIKE BEG AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR
• GOP CANDIDATE CLAIMS COLORADO GOV. JARED POLIS NOT GAY, IS ABER
• COLORADO'S JARED POLIS PROJECTED TO BE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR
• JARED POLIS IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO BE ELECTED GOVERNOR U.S.HISTORYREP. JARED POLIS HAS BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR U.S. HISTORY. HE SAID, ‘TONIGHT, WE REAFFIRM WHAT MAK COLORADO THE AMAZG STATE THAT IS.’SAMANTHA ALLENUPDATED NOV. 07, 2018 3:22AM EST / PUBLISHED NOV. 06, 2018 11:34PM EST DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/APCOLORADO DEMOCRAT JARED POLIS WILL BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR UNED STAT HISTORY—AND ONLY THE SEND OUT LGBT PERSON TO W A GUBERNATORIAL ELECTN. LATE TUDAY NIGHT, THE ASSOCIATED PRS LLED POLIS’ VICTORY OVER REPUBLIN OPPONENT WALKER STAPLETON, WHO IS CURRENTLY SERVG AS THE STATE’S TREASURER.FOR LGBT ADVOT, THIS IS A TONE THAT HAS BEEN YEARS THE MAKG.“GENERATNS OF LGBTQ ADVOT HAVE DREAMED OF THE MOMENT WHEN VOTERS WOULD OVERE TIRED STEREOTYP AND ELECT AN OPENLY GAY MAN WHO STANDS PROUDLY WH HIS PARTNER AND FAY—AND THIS IS THAT MOMENT,” VICTORY FUND PRINT AND FORMER HOTON MAYOR ANNISE PARKER SAID A STATEMENT. POLIS IS AN ENTREPRENR AND CURRENT U.S. HOE REPRENTATIVE FOR COLORADO’S SEND DISTRICT, WHERE HE HAS BEEN SERVG SCE 2009. HE AND HIS SAME-SEX PARTNER MARLON REIS HAVE HAD TWO CHILDREN WHILE POLIS WAS POLIL OFFICE, MAKG HIM THE FIRST OPENLY LGBT PARENT CONGRS, AS ABC NEWS REPORTED 2011. THE POLIS MPAIGN DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RPOND TO THE DAILY BEAST’S REQUT FOR MENT ON THE VICTORY. BUT VIA TWTER, POLIS SAID, “TONIGHT, WE REAFFIRM WHAT MAK COLORADO THE AMAZG STATE THAT IS. HERE, WE DREAM, WE DARE, AND WE DO. WE EMBRACE BIG IAS AND WE WORK SUN-UP TO SUNDOWN TO MAKE THEM REALI. WE SEE THE HIGHT MOUNTAS AND WE CLIMB THEM. WE FACE THE TOUGH CISNS AND WE SOLVE THEM.” LGBT POLIL REPRENTATN AT THE GUBERNATORIAL LEVEL HAS BEEN SPARSE SO FAR. OREGON DEMOCRAT KATE BROWN, WHO IS OPENLY BISEXUAL, TOOK OFFICE 2015 AFTER HER PRECSOR RIGNED WHILE FACG RPTN ALLEGATNS. BROWN WON A 2016 SPECIAL ELECTN, MAKG HER NOT ONLY THE FIRST OPENLY BISEXUAL PERSON ELECTED ERNOR BUT ALSO THE FIRST OUT LGBT PERSON TO W AT THAT LEVEL NATNWI. (BROWN WAS ALSO UP FOR RE-ELECTN TUDAY NIGHT AND HER RACE HAD NOT YET BEEN LLED AT THE TIME POLIS WAS PROJECTED TO W.)THE ONLY OTHER OPENLY GAY MAN TO SERVE AS ERNOR, HOWEVER BRIEFLY, WAS FORMER NEW JERSEY ERNOR JIM MCGREEVEY, WHO ME OUT AS “A GAY AMERIN” AN AUGT 2004 PRS NFERENCE AFTER FORMER AI GOLAN CIPEL PREPARED A SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAWSU. MCGREEVEY RIGNED THAT VERY PRS NFERENCE—BUT HE DID NOT OFFICIALLY LEAVE OFFICE UNTIL SEPTEMBER OF THAT YEAR. “JARED SHATTERED A LAVENR CEILG COLORADO, BUT S EFFECT WILL EXTEND WELL-BEYOND THE STATE’S BORRS” VICTORY FUND, A NONPARTISAN ADVOCY GROUP THAT WORKS TO ELECT LGBT NDIDAT, BELIEV THAT POLIS’ GROUNDBREAKG W WILL HAVE A NATNWI IMPACT.“JARED SHATTERED A LAVENR CEILG COLORADO, BUT S EFFECT WILL EXTEND WELL-BEYOND THE STATE’S BORRS,” PARKER SAID A STATEMENT, NOTG THAT JT 25 YEARS AGO COLORADO WAS DUBBED A “HATE STATE” BY BOYTTERS OF AN ANTI-LGBT AMENDMENT.“COLORADO HAS UNRGONE A TRANSFORMATN THAT PARALLELS THE CHANGG ATTUS THE UNTRY AT LARGE,” SHE NOTED.BUT REMAS TO BE SEEN WHETHER THOSE CHANGG ATTUS LEADS TO MORE LGBT ERNORS. BIS POLIS AND BROWN, TWO OTHER OPENLY LGBT PEOPLE RAN FOR ERNOR THIS CYCLE. IN VERMONT, CHRISTE HALLQUIST, A TRANSGENR WOMAN AND FORMER ENERGY PANY EXECUTIVE, WON THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY BUT LOST TUDAY NIGHT TO REPUBLIN CUMBENT PHIL STT. AND TEXAS, OUT LBIAN SHERIFF LUPE VALZ LOST TO REPUBLIN CUMBENT GREG ABBOTT.STILL, THOUGH, LGBT ADVOT ARE FDG PLENTY TO CELEBRATE POLIS’ W. IN A STATEMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN PRINT CHAD GRIFF LLED POLIS A “BOLD PRO-EQUALY CHAMPN,” CG HIS LONGSTANDG RERD SUPPORT OF LGBT RIGHTS.ONE OF POLIS’ MAJOR LGBT ACPLISHMENTS WAS SPONSORG THE STUNT NON-DISCRIMATN ACT, A PROPOSED PIECE OF FERAL LEGISLATN THAT WOULD BAN ANTI-LGBT DISCRIMATN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. POLIS TRODUCED THE BILL 2011 AND ALTHOUGH HAS NOT YET PASSED, POLIS NTUED TO MAKE TN A RNERSTONE OF HIS REER AND POLIL MPAIGNG. HE RE-TRODUCED THE SNDA AGA AS RECENTLY AS THIS MARCH.“FOR NEARLY A CONGRS, JARED POLIS FOUGHT TO ADVANCE FAIRNS AND EQUALY COLORADO AND ACROSS AMERI,” SAID GRIFF. “HE IS A PROVEN LEAR WHO WILL TAKE HIS MMENT TO SECURG FULL EQUALY TO THE ERNOR’S MANSN AND FIGHT TO MAKE COLORADO A STRONGER AND MORE CLIVE STATE.” SAMANTHA ALLEN

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

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.

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

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 ConcepcnSummer Concepcn is a polics reporter for NBC News.

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.

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

In 2018, Polis beme the first openly gay man elected ernor the Uned Stat.

Democrat Jared Polis, the first out gay man elected ernor of any U. Polis was the first gay father the mpaign trail, Polis emphasized his achievements his first term, such as implementg universal ee krgarten and signg a bill guaranteeg abortn ernors are sworn , the U. Polis, 46, who was the first openly gay man to bee a ernor when he was elected 2018.

GOP CANDIDATE CLAIMS COLORADO GOV. JARED POLIS NOT GAY, IS ABER

Supreme Court led that gay marriage was legal across the Polis proposed December while both he and Mr. 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.

COLORADO'S JARED POLIS PROJECTED TO BE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR

‘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. 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.

JARED POLIS IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO BE ELECTED GOVERNOR U.S.HISTORYREP. JARED POLIS HAS BEE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR U.S. HISTORY. HE SAID, ‘TONIGHT, WE REAFFIRM WHAT MAK COLORADO THE AMAZG STATE THAT IS.’SAMANTHA ALLENUPDATED NOV. 07, 2018 3:22AM EST / PUBLISHED NOV. 06, 2018 11:34PM EST DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/APCOLORADO DEMOCRAT JARED POLIS WILL BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR UNED STAT HISTORY—AND ONLY THE SEND OUT LGBT PERSON TO W A GUBERNATORIAL ELECTN. LATE TUDAY NIGHT, THE ASSOCIATED PRS LLED POLIS’ VICTORY OVER REPUBLIN OPPONENT WALKER STAPLETON, WHO IS CURRENTLY SERVG AS THE STATE’S TREASURER.FOR LGBT ADVOT, THIS IS A TONE THAT HAS BEEN YEARS THE MAKG.“GENERATNS OF LGBTQ ADVOT HAVE DREAMED OF THE MOMENT WHEN VOTERS WOULD OVERE TIRED STEREOTYP AND ELECT AN OPENLY GAY MAN WHO STANDS PROUDLY WH HIS PARTNER AND FAY—AND THIS IS THAT MOMENT,” VICTORY FUND PRINT AND FORMER HOTON MAYOR ANNISE PARKER SAID A STATEMENT. POLIS IS AN ENTREPRENR AND CURRENT U.S. HOE REPRENTATIVE FOR COLORADO’S SEND DISTRICT, WHERE HE HAS BEEN SERVG SCE 2009. HE AND HIS SAME-SEX PARTNER MARLON REIS HAVE HAD TWO CHILDREN WHILE POLIS WAS POLIL OFFICE, MAKG HIM THE FIRST OPENLY LGBT PARENT CONGRS, AS ABC NEWS REPORTED 2011. THE POLIS MPAIGN DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RPOND TO THE DAILY BEAST’S REQUT FOR MENT ON THE VICTORY. BUT VIA TWTER, POLIS SAID, “TONIGHT, WE REAFFIRM WHAT MAK COLORADO THE AMAZG STATE THAT IS. HERE, WE DREAM, WE DARE, AND WE DO. WE EMBRACE BIG IAS AND WE WORK SUN-UP TO SUNDOWN TO MAKE THEM REALI. WE SEE THE HIGHT MOUNTAS AND WE CLIMB THEM. WE FACE THE TOUGH CISNS AND WE SOLVE THEM.” LGBT POLIL REPRENTATN AT THE GUBERNATORIAL LEVEL HAS BEEN SPARSE SO FAR. OREGON DEMOCRAT KATE BROWN, WHO IS OPENLY BISEXUAL, TOOK OFFICE 2015 AFTER HER PRECSOR RIGNED WHILE FACG RPTN ALLEGATNS. BROWN WON A 2016 SPECIAL ELECTN, MAKG HER NOT ONLY THE FIRST OPENLY BISEXUAL PERSON ELECTED ERNOR BUT ALSO THE FIRST OUT LGBT PERSON TO W AT THAT LEVEL NATNWI. (BROWN WAS ALSO UP FOR RE-ELECTN TUDAY NIGHT AND HER RACE HAD NOT YET BEEN LLED AT THE TIME POLIS WAS PROJECTED TO W.)THE ONLY OTHER OPENLY GAY MAN TO SERVE AS ERNOR, HOWEVER BRIEFLY, WAS FORMER NEW JERSEY ERNOR JIM MCGREEVEY, WHO ME OUT AS “A GAY AMERIN” AN AUGT 2004 PRS NFERENCE AFTER FORMER AI GOLAN CIPEL PREPARED A SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAWSU. MCGREEVEY RIGNED THAT VERY PRS NFERENCE—BUT HE DID NOT OFFICIALLY LEAVE OFFICE UNTIL SEPTEMBER OF THAT YEAR. “JARED SHATTERED A LAVENR CEILG COLORADO, BUT S EFFECT WILL EXTEND WELL-BEYOND THE STATE’S BORRS” VICTORY FUND, A NONPARTISAN ADVOCY GROUP THAT WORKS TO ELECT LGBT NDIDAT, BELIEV THAT POLIS’ GROUNDBREAKG W WILL HAVE A NATNWI IMPACT.“JARED SHATTERED A LAVENR CEILG COLORADO, BUT S EFFECT WILL EXTEND WELL-BEYOND THE STATE’S BORRS,” PARKER SAID A STATEMENT, NOTG THAT JT 25 YEARS AGO COLORADO WAS DUBBED A “HATE STATE” BY BOYTTERS OF AN ANTI-LGBT AMENDMENT.“COLORADO HAS UNRGONE A TRANSFORMATN THAT PARALLELS THE CHANGG ATTUS THE UNTRY AT LARGE,” SHE NOTED.BUT REMAS TO BE SEEN WHETHER THOSE CHANGG ATTUS LEADS TO MORE LGBT ERNORS. BIS POLIS AND BROWN, TWO OTHER OPENLY LGBT PEOPLE RAN FOR ERNOR THIS CYCLE. IN VERMONT, CHRISTE HALLQUIST, A TRANSGENR WOMAN AND FORMER ENERGY PANY EXECUTIVE, WON THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY BUT LOST TUDAY NIGHT TO REPUBLIN CUMBENT PHIL STT. AND TEXAS, OUT LBIAN SHERIFF LUPE VALZ LOST TO REPUBLIN CUMBENT GREG ABBOTT.STILL, THOUGH, LGBT ADVOT ARE FDG PLENTY TO CELEBRATE POLIS’ W. IN A STATEMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN PRINT CHAD GRIFF LLED POLIS A “BOLD PRO-EQUALY CHAMPN,” CG HIS LONGSTANDG RERD SUPPORT OF LGBT RIGHTS.ONE OF POLIS’ MAJOR LGBT ACPLISHMENTS WAS SPONSORG THE STUNT NON-DISCRIMATN ACT, A PROPOSED PIECE OF FERAL LEGISLATN THAT WOULD BAN ANTI-LGBT DISCRIMATN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. POLIS TRODUCED THE BILL 2011 AND ALTHOUGH HAS NOT YET PASSED, POLIS NTUED TO MAKE TN A RNERSTONE OF HIS REER AND POLIL MPAIGNG. HE RE-TRODUCED THE SNDA AGA AS RECENTLY AS THIS MARCH.“FOR NEARLY A CONGRS, JARED POLIS FOUGHT TO ADVANCE FAIRNS AND EQUALY COLORADO AND ACROSS AMERI,” SAID GRIFF. “HE IS A PROVEN LEAR WHO WILL TAKE HIS MMENT TO SECURG FULL EQUALY TO THE ERNOR’S MANSN AND FIGHT TO MAKE COLORADO A STRONGER AND MORE CLIVE STATE.” SAMANTHA ALLEN

”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.