Voters Colorado have ma Jared Polis the natn's first openly gay elected ernor. Polis speaks wh NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about his plans while he's office.
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- COLORADO'S JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR, ADDRS 'HORRIFIC' SHOOTG AT AN LGBTQ CLUB
- COLORADO DEMOCRATS JT NOMATED AN OPENLY GAY CONGRSMAN FOR GOVERNOR
- IN COLORADO, JARED POLIS BE FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED GOVERNOR
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. * gay congressman colorado *
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. I., and the first openly gay mayor of a state pal -- has reprented Rho Island's First Congrsnal District sce 2011.
COLORADO DEMOCRATS JT NOMATED AN OPENLY GAY CONGRSMAN FOR GOVERNOR
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, the first openly gay man elected ernor the Uned Stat, married his longtime partner on Wednday at a small ceremony. * gay congressman colorado *
She mak history as Kansas's first LGBTQ member of Congrs and the first gay Native Amerin woman elected to Congrs. Gay ngrsman Sean Patrick Maloney won reelectn 2018 to ntue reprentg New York's 18th District. Mark Pon is a gay polician and former small-bs owner who first took office the U.
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. Jared Polis won the Democratic gubernatorial nomatn Colorado on Tuday, givg him a chance to bee the first openly gay man elected ernor the Uned, who sold two ter startups and is one of the wealthit members of Congrs, spent $11 ln of his own money to w the primary. A Polis w over Stapleton would shatter a barrier for gay policians and reprent a major advancement for the natn’s LGBTQ muny.
IN COLORADO, JARED POLIS BE FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED GOVERNOR
Rep. Jared Polis would be the first openly gay man elected ernor the U.S. if he ws November. * gay congressman colorado *
She then beme the first LGBTQ person to w a gubernatorial race a 2016 special New Jersey, Democrat Jim McGreevey was a closeted gay man when he won the ernorship 2001. He me out as gay Augt 2004 amid a sndal stemmg om his sexualy, which ma him the first openly LGBTQ person to serve as a ernor U.
But earlier this month, took center stage as a wboy-hatted Polis marched Denver’s Pri para alongsi Annise Parker, the former print of the Victory Fund polil actn mtee that foc on electg LGBTQ people to 100 or so Polis supporters marchg wh him the para wore pk shirts emblazoned wh the phrase “TAKE THAT, MIKE PENCE, ” referrg to the vice print’s rerd of opposg gay rights. 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.
"People were fightg for the rights long before Stonewall," Aaron Marc of History Colorado said of the state's early gay activists. * gay congressman colorado *
"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.
He's brgg a lot of energy the Geia firebrand hat: He's gay, he's an immigrant, he beme a U.S. cizen, and now he's head to Congrs. * gay congressman colorado *
""As a remr, this will be me when I walk by Marjorie Taylor Greene the Capol next week at orientatn, " Garcia, the first out gay immigrant elected to Congrs, tweeted Friday afternoon.