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2022-08-07 00:09:24 UTC
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Minnesota Molly Shitbag <***@gmail.com> wrote:
Died in disgrace.
BOULDER, Colo. Clela Rorex, a former Colorado county clerk
considered a pioneer in the gay rights movement for being the
first public official to issue a same-sex marriage license in
1975, has died. She was 78.
Rorex died Sunday of complications from recent surgery at a
hospice care facility in Longmont, the Daily Camera reported.
Rorex was a newly elected Boulder County clerk when a gay couple
denied a marriage license elsewhere sought her help in March
1975. She told The Associated Press in 2014 that she saw a
parallel with the womens movement and found nothing in state
law preventing it.
The then-31-year-old agreed and, in the end, issued a total of
six licenses to gay couples before Colorados attorney general
at the time ordered her to stop.
State and federal law didnt recognize gay marriage at the time.
Rorex recalled that she had little public support and didnt
challenge the attorney general.
A recall effort was launched against Rorex, a single mother and
University of Colorado graduate student. Suffering from chronic
migraines and dealing with hate mail, she resigned halfway
through her term.
Colorado legalized gay marriage in 2014 after a state court and
a Denver federal court struck down a 2006 ban enacted by state
voters. A 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision recognized the
fundamental right nationwide.
Jared Polis, Colorados first openly gay governor, paid tribute
to Rorex upon learning of her passing.
Her certification of same-sex marriages (until the Attorney
General shut her down) was a pivotal moment in the long struggle
for marriage equality that led to Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015,
which legalized marriage equality nationally, Polis wrote on
Facebook. So many families, including First Gentleman Marlon
Reis and I, are grateful for the visionary leadership of Clela
Rorex, a woman ahead of her time.
Glenda Russell, a retired writer and LGTBQ community historian,
told the Camera that Rorex faced significant backlash after
issuing the first license.
Nationally at the time, most people didnt take it too
seriously because they didnt worry about it happening again,
but in Boulder, the reaction was forceful and mean spirited. She
got hit with all the homophobia and heterosexism that the LGBTQ
community was facing, Russell said.
In later years, Rorex advocated for gay and lesbian rights,
speaking in schools and expressing exasperation with the slow
pace of change.
According to Out Boulder County, an LGTBQ advocacy organization,
Rorex was born in Denver on July 23, 1943. She earned a Bachelor
of Arts degree at the University of Colorado before running for
county clerk and recorder. After resigning as clerk in 1977 she
obtained post-graduate degrees and served a legal administrator
for the Native American Rights Fund.
A celebration of life was planned for July 23, Out Boulder
County said.
The county courthouse in Boulder where she issued the licenses
has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/clela-rorex-who-issued-
1st-same-sex-marriage-licenses-dies-n1296455?icid=recommended
Minnesota Molly Shitbag <***@gmail.com> wrote:
Died in disgrace.
BOULDER, Colo. Clela Rorex, a former Colorado county clerk
considered a pioneer in the gay rights movement for being the
first public official to issue a same-sex marriage license in
1975, has died. She was 78.
Rorex died Sunday of complications from recent surgery at a
hospice care facility in Longmont, the Daily Camera reported.
Rorex was a newly elected Boulder County clerk when a gay couple
denied a marriage license elsewhere sought her help in March
1975. She told The Associated Press in 2014 that she saw a
parallel with the womens movement and found nothing in state
law preventing it.
The then-31-year-old agreed and, in the end, issued a total of
six licenses to gay couples before Colorados attorney general
at the time ordered her to stop.
State and federal law didnt recognize gay marriage at the time.
Rorex recalled that she had little public support and didnt
challenge the attorney general.
A recall effort was launched against Rorex, a single mother and
University of Colorado graduate student. Suffering from chronic
migraines and dealing with hate mail, she resigned halfway
through her term.
Colorado legalized gay marriage in 2014 after a state court and
a Denver federal court struck down a 2006 ban enacted by state
voters. A 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision recognized the
fundamental right nationwide.
Jared Polis, Colorados first openly gay governor, paid tribute
to Rorex upon learning of her passing.
Her certification of same-sex marriages (until the Attorney
General shut her down) was a pivotal moment in the long struggle
for marriage equality that led to Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015,
which legalized marriage equality nationally, Polis wrote on
Facebook. So many families, including First Gentleman Marlon
Reis and I, are grateful for the visionary leadership of Clela
Rorex, a woman ahead of her time.
Glenda Russell, a retired writer and LGTBQ community historian,
told the Camera that Rorex faced significant backlash after
issuing the first license.
Nationally at the time, most people didnt take it too
seriously because they didnt worry about it happening again,
but in Boulder, the reaction was forceful and mean spirited. She
got hit with all the homophobia and heterosexism that the LGBTQ
community was facing, Russell said.
In later years, Rorex advocated for gay and lesbian rights,
speaking in schools and expressing exasperation with the slow
pace of change.
According to Out Boulder County, an LGTBQ advocacy organization,
Rorex was born in Denver on July 23, 1943. She earned a Bachelor
of Arts degree at the University of Colorado before running for
county clerk and recorder. After resigning as clerk in 1977 she
obtained post-graduate degrees and served a legal administrator
for the Native American Rights Fund.
A celebration of life was planned for July 23, Out Boulder
County said.
The county courthouse in Boulder where she issued the licenses
has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/clela-rorex-who-issued-
1st-same-sex-marriage-licenses-dies-n1296455?icid=recommended