A post shared by Marlon Reis (@firstgentmarlonreis)Openly gay Gov. Jared Polis has announced his engagement to his boyfriend of 17 years, Marlon Reis.Ries broke the news to The Colorado Sun on Wednesday (March 3).
The proposal, however, came at a delicate moment last December: Reis was on his way to the hospital for treatment for a COVID-19 infection.“I was getting my things ready.
My daughter was crying in the corner — she didn’t want me to go,” Reis, 39, told the paper. “My son was asking me a lot of technical questions: ‘When are you coming back?
Do they know exactly what’s wrong?’ It was a very tense moment.”Related: Colorado governor Jared Polis signs new LGBTQ protections into lawGov.