Jared Polis to become a dad

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Rep. Jared Polis and his partner, Marlon Reis, are expecting their first child this fall.

Polis — the first openly gay man elected to Congress as a freshman — released a statement Tuesday to share the news, according to the Denver Post.

The Colorado congressman and Reis, a fiction writer, are “very excited to become new parents,” the paper reported, adding that the couple “declined to comment further about the news, including whether it was a surrogate pregnancy or an adoption.”

— Mackenzie Weinger