Clela Rorex 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. by shellybradbury
Clela Rorex, 78, died in Longmont in hospice care after suffering complications following surgery, according to Out Boulder County, a nonprofit advocacy group.
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. Rorex checked with the Boulder County district attorney’s office and was told nothing in the state’s marriage code explicitly prohibited same-sex marriages. She then issued the marriage license to the men.
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