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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
- COLORADO’S GOT A GAY GOVERNOR. WHO CAR?
- MEET CALIFORNIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR — FOR A FEW HOURS, ANYWAY
- WELE TO THE TOWN OF GAY, GA
- POLIS, 1ST OPENLY GAY ERNOR ELECTED, MARRI COLORADO
- GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
- MRA HEALEY IS FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST OUT GAY PERSON ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
- CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
- A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
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 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.
He first won elected office 2008 and beme, his words, “the first openly gay parent to w a seat Congrs.
WHAT 'S LIKE BEG AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR
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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. 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.
COLORADO’S GOT A GAY GOVERNOR. WHO CAR?
Colorado elected a rich, gay, Jewish ernor. It’s eher a historic moment or progrs-wh-a-shg — or both. * gay gov *
“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.
MEET CALIFORNIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR — FOR A FEW HOURS, ANYWAY
Toni Atks beme California's first openly gay ernor on Wednday -- for a perd of roughly ne hours. * gay gov *
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?
WELE TO THE TOWN OF GAY, GA
Colorado's Jared Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, has married his longtime partner and first gentleman Marlon Reis, a wrer and animal welfare advote. Polis, 46, and Reis, 40, were married a tradnal Jewish ceremony attend by fay and iends Boulr on Wednday, the ernor's office said. Rabbi Tirzah Firtone officiated. * gay gov *
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? Benjam Rasmsen for The New York TimColorado elected a rich, gay, Jewish ernor.
POLIS, 1ST OPENLY GAY ERNOR ELECTED, MARRI COLORADO
— 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.
GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH
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.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
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.
MRA HEALEY IS FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST OUT GAY PERSON ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
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. ” 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.
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.
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
”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 .
A PROCLAMATN ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER PRI MONTH, 2021
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