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• COLORADO'S JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR, ADDRS 'HORRIFIC' SHOOTG AT AN LGBTQ CLUB
• 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
• WHAT 'S LIKE BEG AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR
• MRA HEALEY BE FIRST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
• FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR ELECTED MARRI LONGTIME PARTNER
• POLIS, 1ST OPENLY GAY ERNOR ELECTED, MARRI COLORADO
• COLORADO’S GOT A GAY GOVERNOR. WHO CAR?
• JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY GOVERNOR U.S. HISTORY, WANTS OTHER LGBTQ PEOPLE TO RUN FOR OFFICE
• MRA HEALEY IS FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST OUT GAY PERSON ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
• MASSACHETTS SET TO ELECT FIRST FEMALE, GAY ERNOR OVER TMPIST OPPONENT
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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

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.

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

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

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. “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.

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

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.

In 2018, Polis beme the first openly gay man elected ernor the Uned Stat. Toni Atks beme California's first openly gay ernor on Wednday -- for a perd of roughly ne hours. Assembly Speaker]Toni Atks, D-San Diego, (R) walks hand hand wh her spoe, Jennifer LeSar, to the rostm of the Assembly where she took the oath of office as the 69th Assembly Speaker at the Capol Sacramento, Calif., on May 12, 30, 2014, 9:49 PM UTC / Updated July 30, 2014, 10:16 PM UTCCalifornia Assembly Speaker Toni Atks beme the Goln State's first openly gay ernor on Wednday -- for a perd of roughly ne to the travel schl of Democratic Gov.

”Atks is only the send openly gay ernor the U. He rigned shortly openly gay person has ever been elected 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.

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

”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? I went out and bought every book on homosexualy.

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

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.

MRA HEALEY BE FIRST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR

”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?

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?

FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR ELECTED MARRI LONGTIME PARTNER

Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the state’s first woman and first openly gay ndidate elected to the feated Republin Geoff Diehl, a former state reprentative who had the endorsement of former Print Tmp.

Healey and Democrat Ta Kotek, a ndidate for ernor Oregon, each began the day wh a chance to bee the first openly lbian person elected ernor of a — elected eight years ago as the natn’s first openly gay attorney general — snapped what’s bee known Massachetts as the “curse of the attorney general. Ta Kotek, the projected wner of the Oregon ernor's race, will be only the send woman elected to lead her, who was the first openly gay attorney general elected the untry 2014, was prevly a civil rights lawyer.

POLIS, 1ST OPENLY GAY ERNOR ELECTED, MARRI COLORADO

Jared Polis, the first openly gay male ernor the U. NFL’S FIRST-EVER OPENLY GAY PLAYER STARS IN WILD FINISH TO MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL. CARL NASSIB IS THE FIRST ACTIVE NFL PLAYER TO COME OUT AS GAY.

Polis, who beme the first openly gay man the Uned Stat to be elected ernor 2018, married his longtime partner and first gentleman Reis, a wrer and animal welfare advote.

(AP) — 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, 46, and Reis, 40, were married a tradnal Jewish ceremony attend by fay and iends Boulr on Wednday, the ernor's office said. Benjam Rasmsen for The New York TimColorado elected a rich, gay, Jewish ernor. — On Tuday, the first openly gay man elected ernor Amerin history was sworn , his partner at his si.

COLORADO’S GOT A GAY GOVERNOR. WHO CAR?

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. Polis's gayns was “tertgly untertg to voters, ” as the nservative lumnist Gee F.

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

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.

MRA HEALEY IS FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST OUT GAY PERSON ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR

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.

MASSACHETTS SET TO ELECT FIRST FEMALE, GAY ERNOR OVER TMPIST OPPONENT

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.

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.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

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 .

UTAH’S ARUP BLOOD SERVIC TO EASE RTRICTNS ON GAY, BISEXUAL MALE DONORS

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.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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.