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Contents:
- COLORADO'S JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR, ADDRS 'HORRIFIC' SHOOTG AT AN LGBTQ CLUB
- WHAT 'S LIKE BEG AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR
- WELE TO GAY IENDLY DENVER-BOULR METRO AREA
- GAY MAYOR ELECTED COLORADO TOWN
- COLORADO, ONCE THE FAMO ANTI-LGBT ‘HATE STATE,’ BE FIRST TO ELECT AN OPENLY GAY ERNOR
COLORADO'S JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR, ADDRS 'HORRIFIC' SHOOTG AT AN LGBTQ CLUB
Colorado Gov. 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. * colorado gay mayor *
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 ConcepcnSummer Concepcn is a polics reporter for NBC News.
WHAT 'S LIKE BEG AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR
Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, who 2018 beme the first openly gay man ever elected ernor the U.S., wed his longtime partner on Wednday. * colorado gay mayor *
In 2018, Polis beme the first openly gay man ever elected ernor the U. A earlier, he was the first openly gay man elected to the U. S Supreme Court ma gay marriage legal across the untry 2015.
Polis noted the stereotyp that me along wh beg gay when he was younger. "When people thought of gay people, they thought of AIDS, unfortunately, " he said. ' That's the ma thg you knew about gay people the '80s and '90s.
In 2018, Polis beme the first openly gay man elected ernor the Uned Stat.
WELE TO GAY IENDLY DENVER-BOULR METRO AREA
Only 26% of Amerins said they would vote for a gay or lbian ndidate 40 years ago. But as Colorado’s Jared Polis has disvered, is now a non-issue for many voters<br> * colorado gay mayor *
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.
GAY MAYOR ELECTED COLORADO TOWN
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“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.
COLORADO, ONCE THE FAMO ANTI-LGBT ‘HATE STATE,’ BE FIRST TO ELECT AN OPENLY GAY ERNOR
”But would an openly gay ndidate have been nceivable when you were growg up here? I went out and bought every book on homosexualy.