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• WHAT 'S LIKE BEG AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR
• JARED POLIS MAK HISTORY AS AMERI'S FIRST ELECTED OPENLY GAY MALE GOVERNOR
• AMERI’S FIRST GAY ELECTED ERNOR WAS SWORN & LGBTQ PEOPLE CELEBRATED WH HIM
• MEET CALIFORNIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR — FOR A FEW HOURS, ANYWAY
• COLORADO'S JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR, ADDRS 'HORRIFIC' SHOOTG AT AN LGBTQ CLUB
• COLORADO’S GOT A GAY GOVERNOR. WHO CAR?

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

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?

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

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.

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

AMERI’S FIRST GAY ELECTED ERNOR WAS SWORN & LGBTQ PEOPLE CELEBRATED WH HIM

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.

MEET CALIFORNIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR — FOR A FEW HOURS, ANYWAY

”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. Is Ameri ready for a gay print?

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

Colorado Congrsman Jared Polis ma history Tuday night by beg the first openly gay man to be elected ernor of a U.

COLORADO’S GOT A GAY GOVERNOR. WHO CAR?

” 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. In Colorado, the natn’s first openly gay ernor, Jared Polis, was re-elected, trouncg Republin Heidi Ganahl 57. New York’s 3rd ngrsnal district saw history ma wh two gay men nng, Democrat Robert Zimmerman and Republin Gee Santos.

Santos is an electn nier and supporter of Ron DeSantis’s “Don’t Say Gay” law.