Openly Gay Dan Baer of Colorado Running for US Senate Seat

Will Colorado elect an openly gay man to the US Senate in 2020? That’s a distinct possibility as Dan Baer has thrown his hat into the ring for the Democratic nomination. The 42-year-old Baer was the ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe under President Barack Obama, serving from August 2013 to January 2017. A former economics and business ethics professor at Georgetown University, Baer also served as an assistant secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Most recently, he was head of Colorado’s Department of Higher Education. If Baer gets the Democratic nomination, he would be running against […]