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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, Partner Test Positive for COVID-19

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Polis and partner Marlon Reis are asymptomatic and isolating at home.

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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and his partner, Marlon Reis, have both tested positive for COVID-19, the governor announced Saturday evening.

They are both asymptomatic and isolating at home, Polis said in a tweet. "No person or family is immune to this virus," he noted, and he urged Coloradans to take safety measures. He had tested negative earlier in the week after being exposed to someone with COVID.

Also Saturday, Polis extended four executive orders related to the pandemic, including one that provides a onetime payment to Colorado residents who've collected unemployment benefits because of the crisis, according to The Denver Post. The extended order gives the state more time to get the payments out. COVID cases and hospitalizations "have risen dramatically in Colorado in October and November, setting all-time highs far above the levels seen in the spring," The Washington Post reports.

In 2018, Polis became the first out gay man to be elected governor of any state in the U.S. A Democrat, he was previously a businessman and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Jim McGreevey, elected governor of New Jersey in 2002, came out as gay in 2004 but resigned immediately afterward. Kate Brown, a bisexual woman, advanced from secretary of state to governor of Oregon in 2015 when Gov. John Kitzhaber resigned, as Oregon has no lieutenant governor, and has since been elected in her own right.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.