Sexual orientation part of the ordinance, so it was basically taken out of the law. However, that was not enough. In addition to the referendum, some of the people who were against the referendum began a recall effort. They started a recall effort against 10 state and tim fuller. Pension state was the mayor at the time, boulders first and only africanamerican mayor. He had been an attorney who took a strong stand on civil rights of all kinds. A bit of awas in for fight when he proposed the human rights ordinance, particularly when he stuck to the position of keeping the keeping Sexual Orientation in the ordinance. He basically did not get recalled, suite five with high think it was around 300 votes were Something Like that. However in the next general election he did not get reelected. He essentially had his political career ended over this issue. He came in not as a gay candidate at all, though it turned out he was gay he came in as a candidate for tenant rights. And other progressive
Leaders here. She served as the director of the boulder bank. Together with our comcast able partners, our city tour staff recently visited many sites exploring the rich history. Learn more all weekend here on American History tv. Ill there were two guys from colorado springs. Their names were dave zamora and dave mccord. They had gone and asked for a marriage license. She said no, but go to boulder, they do those kinds of things there. That is how they came to me. Going on in the early 1970s, lgbt in this country was in a very different place
Gay friends and that sort of thing will find it hard to believe that that owing, many states in the country, gay states will gay sex was still illegal. The American Psychiatric Association Still viewed homosexuality as a disease. There were very, very few, if any, mainstream churches or synagogues that would have countenance the idea of having of having openly gay members. Along with the rest of the country, boulder was undergoing a lot of changes. There were tensions amongst the different factions within the town. Before that time it had been a fairly Sleepy College Town in the Rocky Mountains west. There was a certain status quo that was fairly comfortable for a lot of people here. I think that one of the things that happened was older experienced the kind of influx that many towns experienced at the time while we were not necessarily the hub of all the changes, we were quickly responding to those changes and in some cases assimilating them. You had tensions between people who wanted