40 Years After Assassatn Of First Openly Gay Elected Official In California : NPR

WHAT 'S LIKE BEG AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR
COLORADO'S JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR, ADDRS 'HORRIFIC' SHOOTG AT AN LGBTQ CLUB
AMERI’S FIRST GAY ELECTED ERNOR WAS SWORN & LGBTQ PEOPLE CELEBRATED WH HIM
JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY GOVERNOR U.S. HISTORY, WANTS OTHER LGBTQ PEOPLE TO RUN FOR OFFICE
JARED POLIS MAK HISTORY AS AMERI'S FIRST ELECTED OPENLY GAY MALE GOVERNOR
40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA

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

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> * first gay us governor *

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.

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. * first gay us governor *

”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. ”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

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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.

JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY GOVERNOR U.S. HISTORY, WANTS OTHER LGBTQ PEOPLE TO RUN FOR OFFICE

Is Ameri ready for a gay print?

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. Jared Polis is now officially the first gay elected ernor Amerin history. “This is a moment history, ” said Joschua Ber, a gay teacher who attend the guratn.

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

“This is Colorado gettg to set an example for the entire untry that someone who is gay and Jewish n be ernor of a state as great as ours. Jared Polis is beg sworn as the first openly Gay Governor of Colorado. In 2004, New Jersey ernor Jim McGreevey beme Ameri’s first gay ernor.

He was outed while office; one of his polil appote threatened to file a sexual harassment su agast McGreevey and the ernor me out as “a gay Amerin. Wh his victory the midterm electns, 43-year-old Polis beme the first openly gay person to be elected ernor the Uned was nng agast Colorado’s treasurer, Walker Stapleton, a Republin. “But of urse, feels somewhat superficial that all anyone mentns natnally is that I’m the first openly gay ernor.

“I really unrstand how others n fd a lot of excement the fact that a state like Colorado n elect an openly gay ernor, and hopefully that n spire LGBT youth and others across the untry to really reach for the stars whatever fields they are strivg for, ” he says. “It was excg to , my partner, Marlon, and I, when we got to see people like G Kenworthy pete the Olympics as openly gay, and ’s excg to when we see sgers and stars who don’t have to hi who they are and n still be succsful.