Pioneering Boulder clerk who issued same-sex marriage licenses in 1975 dies
The Boulder County clerk who in 1975 became the first government official in the United States to knowingly issue same-sex marriage licenses died on Sunday.
Clela Rorex, 78, died in Longmont in hospice care after she suffered an unexpected fall and infection following surgery, her son Scott Poston said.
She was a pioneer of LGBTQ rights and issued marriage licenses to six same-sex couples four decades before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the practice.
In March 1975, Rorex was only three months into her new job as Boulder County’s elected clerk and recorder when she was approached by a gay couple who sought a marriage license. The men, David McCord and David Zamora, had been turned away from the clerk’s office in El Paso County.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pioneering-boulder-clerk-who-issued-same-sex-marriage-licenses-in-1975-dies/ar-AAYDQwE?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=74d45b7890ed46e1b53378c7bb4ce148
Very sad... RIP 
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