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• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
• PETE {LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:600;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:0.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.25REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}} A{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:HER;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;} A:HOVER{LOR:#A00000;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}PETE BUTTIGIEG, A FORMER MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, WAS AMONG THE 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDAT AND IS THE CURRENT SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATN. 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A GRADUATE OF HARVARD UNIVERSY AND AN OXFORD RHOS SCHOLAR, BUTTIGIEG ENLISTED THE U.S. NAVY RERVE AND BEME A LITENANT WHEN HE WAS PLOYED TO AFGHANISTAN 2014. IN APRIL 2019 HE ANNOUNCED HIS NDIDACY THE 2020 U.S. PRINTIAL ELECTN, A BID THAT WOULD HAVE MA HIM THE YOUNGT AND THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT U.S. HISTORY. DPE EMERGG AS A TOP-TIER DEMOCRATIC NDIDATE, BUTTIGIEG SPEND HIS MPAIGN EARLY MARCH 2020.EARLY LIFE AND FAYTHE ONLY CHILD TO PARENTS JOSEPH AND JENNIFER BUTTIGIEG, PETER PL MONTGOMERY BUTTIGIEG WAS BORN ON JANUARY 19, 1982, AND RAISED SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. HIS FATHER IMMIGRATED OM MALTA WHILE LLEGE, AND ALTHOUGH HE STUDIED TO BE A JU PRIT, JOSEPH END UP BEG A LERATURE PROFSOR AT THE UNIVERSY OF NOTRE DAME FOR NEARLY THREE S.BUTTIGIEG'S MOTHER, JENNIFER, IS A LGUIST AND HAILS OM INDIANA. LIKE HER HBAND, JENNIFER TGHT AT THE UNIVERSY OF NOTRE DAME AS A PROFSOR FOR ALMOST THREE S.EDUTNTHE CHILD OF TWO LLEGE PROFSORS, BUTTIGIEG EXCELLED AMILLY. HE WAS HIS HIGH SCHOOL'S VALEDICTORIAN AND ALSO MATRICULATED TO HARVARD UNIVERSY AS A HISTORY AND LERATURE MAJOR. AFTER GRADUATG 2004, HE BEME A RHOS SCHOLAR AT THE UNIVERSY OF OXFORD AND GRADUATED WH A B.A. PHILOSOPHY, POLICS AND ENOMICS.DURG HIS LLEGE YEARS, BUTTIGIEG GOT VOLVED POLICS ON THE STATE LEVEL AND WAS LATER EMPLOYED AS A DIRECTOR BY A NSULTG FIRM WASHGTON, D.C. POST LLEGE, HE WORKED ON JOHN KERRY'S PRINTIAL MPAIGN 2004 AND FOR ANOTHER NSULTG FIRM, MCKSEY & COMPANY, CHIGO. HE CURRENTLY SERV AS AN ADVISOR FOR THE TMAN NATNAL SECURY PROJECT, A PROGRSIVE NATNAL SECURY ANIZATN.BIS HIS NATIVE ENGLISH, BUTTIGIEG HAS FLUENCY SEVEN ADDNAL LANGUAG: ITALIAN, MALTE, SPANISH, DARI PERSIAN, ARABIC, FRENCH AND NORWEIGAN (THE LAST BEG SELF-TGHT).MILARY SERVICEAS A SUPPORTER AND VOLUNTEER OF {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}BARACK OBAMA'S PRINTIAL BID, BUTTIGIEG WAS SPIRED TO ENLIST THE ARY 2007. TWO YEARS LATER, HE BEME A U.S. NAVY RERVE OFFICER, AND WHILE SERVG HIS FIRST TERM AS THE MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND 2014, WAS PLOYED TO KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, WHERE HE TOOK PART THE AFGHANISTAN THREAT FANCE CELL (ATFC), WHICH AIMED TO DISPT THE FANCIAL SYSTEMS OF TERRORIST ANIZATNS.IN HIS 2019 TOBGRAPHY, SHORTT WAY HOME, BUTTIGIEG SCRIBED SERVG DANGERO AREAS KABUL: “IN A RUAL TO BE REPEATED DOZENS OF TIM, I WOULD HEAVE MY ARMORED TORSO TO THE DRIVER’S SEAT OF A LAND CISER, CHAMBER A ROUND MY M4, LOCK THE DOORS AND WAVE A GLOVED GOODBYE TO THE MACEDONIAN GATE GUARD,” BUTTIGIEG WROTE. “MY VEHICLE WOULD CROSS OUTSI THE WIRE AND TO THE BOISTERO AFGHAN CY, ENTERG A WORLD FELY MORE TERTG AND ORDARY AND DANGERO THAN OUR ZONE BEHD THE BLAST WALLS AT ISAF HEADQUARTERS.”MOVED BY HIS OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE, 2015, BUTTIGIEG ME OUT AS A GAY MAN.MAYOR OF SOUTH BENDAFTER WNG THE MAYORAL ELECTN SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, BUTTIGIEG, THEN JT 29 YEARS OLD, TOOK HIS OFFICE JANUARY 2012 AND BEME THE YOUNGT MAYOR TO SERVE A U.S. CY WH OVER 100,000 RINTS.BUTTIGIEG WAS RE-ELECTED 2015, BUT NOT WHOUT A STA ON HIS RERD: DURG HIS FIRST TERM, FERAL THORI UNVERED THAT SOUTH BEND'S POLICE WERE ILLEGALLY WIRETAPPG SOME OF S OFFICERS' PHONE LLS, UNR THE REQUT OF POLICE CHIEF DARRYL BOYKS. THIS PROMPTED BUTTIGIEG TO NOT ONLY MOTE BOYKS BUT TO LATER ASK FOR HIS RIGNATN. BOYKS, WHO WAS THE CY'S FIRST BLACK POLICE CHIEF, EVENTUALLY SUED THE CY, CLAIMG DISCRIMATN (PREV WHE POLICE CHIEFS PURPORTEDLY NDUCTED THE SAME WIRETAPPG POLICY). THIS NTROVERSIAL EVENT, BUTTIGIEG CLAIMS, WAS HIS "FIRST SER MISTAKE AS MAYOR."DPE ACCG SOME NTROVERSI, BUTTIGIEG ALSO HELPED TRANSFORM THE CY. HE CREATED PROGRAMS TO REPAIR AND CLEAN UP ABANDONED BUILDGS, ASSISTED LOW-G HOG AND PROMOTED URBAN VELOPMENT PROJECTS.BUTTIGIEG LEFT OFFICE AFTER PLETG TWO TERMS, GIVG WAY TO HIS FORMER HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATE AND CHIEF OF STAFF, JAM MUELLER.POLIL CAREERBUTTIGIEG LACKED THE NAME REGNN AND SUPPORT OF OTHER LEADG DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT WHEN HE FORMALLY LNCHED HIS PRINTIAL MPAIGN APRIL 2019, BUT HE SOON GAED GROUND THANKS TO HIS OBV TELLECT AND CHARISMA, AND TOWARD THE END OF THE YEAR HE WAS TRAILG ONLY THE BIG THREE OF JOE BIN, BERNIE SANRS AND ELIZABETH WARREN THE POLLS.MEDIRE FOR ALL WHO WANT ITWHILE THE HEALTHRE BATE AMERI NTU TO BE HEATED AND NTROVERSIAL, BUTTIGIEG TOOK A MIDDLE-GROUND APPROACH TO THIS ISSUE. HE SUPPORTED GIVG AMERINS A CHOICE THEIR HEALTHRE BY PROPOSG AN "OPT " OPTN, WHILE SIMULTANEOLY ALLOWG AMERINS WHO PREFER TO STAY WH PRIVATE SURANCE TO HAVE THAT ALTERNATIVE AVAILABLE. BUTTIGIEG'S "MEDIRE FOR ALL WHO WANT IT" NTRASTED WH THE ERNMENT-N SGLE-PAYER PROPOSAL BACKED BY THE MORE PROGRSIVE NDIDAT SUCH AS SANRS AND WARREN.THE DOUGLASS PLANTO ADDRS THE ISSU OF BLACK DISENANCHISEMENT AND REPARATNS, WHICH WERE AMONG THE TOPICS BATED BY 2020 DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT, BUTTIGIEG PROPOSED THE DOUGLASS PLAN. NAMED AFTER THE ABOLNIST AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST FRERICK DOUGLASS, THE PLAN OFFERED IMPROVED HEALTHRE POLICI TO THE BLACK MUNY, GIVG MORE ACCS TO CRED FOR BLACK BS AND ENTREPRENRS, A REVTMENT TN AND SYSTEMATIC CRIMAL JTICE REFORM. WHILE THE DOUGLASS PLAN SPECIFILLY FOCED ON THE NEEDS AND NCERNS OF AIN AMERINS, ALSO SERVED TO AID OTHER DISENANCHISED MORY GROUPS.NATNAL SERVICEBUTTIGIEG CREATED "A NEW CALL TO SERVICE" PLAN THAT ENURAGED HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS TO SERVE NATNAL PROGRAMS LIKE THE PEACE CORPS AND AMERICORPS AND TO ENGAGE SOME OF THE PRSG ISSU OF THE TIM, CLUDG CLIMATE CHANGE, ADDICTN AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSU AND MENTORSHIP. THE U.S. SUPREME COURTIN AN EFFORT TO POLICIZE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, BUTTIGIEG NSIRED THE ALTERNATIVE OF ADDG FIVE MORE JTIC TO THE CURRENT COURT STCTURE. VETTED BY THE LOWER URTS, THE ADDNAL JTIC WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO SERVE AFTER BEG UNANIMOLY VOTED BY THE ORIGAL NE U.S. SUPREME COURT JTIC. BUTTIGIEG ALSO NSIRED TERM LIMS FOR JTIC, SAYG HE WOULD FORM A BIPARTISAN MISSN TO EXPLORE THE BT AND MOST VIABLE OPTNS IF ELECTED PRINT.SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATNON FEBARY 2, 2021, BUTTIGIEG WAS NFIRMED AS PRINT BIN'S SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATN, MAKG HIM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN BET SECRETARY. "I'M HONORED AND HUMBLED BY TODAY'S VOTE THE SENATE—AND READY TO GET TO WORK," HE TWEETED.DROPPG OUTALTHOUGH BUTTIGIEG'S MPAIGN WAS SEEMGLY ON STRONG GROUND WHEN HE WON THE NTROVERSIAL IOWA UC EARLY FEBARY 2020, THE NDIDATE WAS UNABLE TO STA THE MOMENTUM THROUGH SUBSEQUENT PRIMARI. ON MARCH 1, AFTER FISHG WELL BEHD BIN AND SANRS SOUTH CAROLA, BUTTIGIEG ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS DROPPG OUT OF THE PRINTIAL RACE."OUR GOAL HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO UNIFY AMERINS TO FEAT DONALD TMP AND TO W THE ERA FOR OUR VALU," HE TOLD SUPPORTERS. "SO WE MT REGNIZE THAT AT THIS POT THE RACE THE BT WAY TO KEEP FAH WH THOSE GOALS AND IALS IS TO STEP ASI AND TO HELP BRG OUR PARTY AND OUR UNTRY TOGETHER."HBAND AND PERSONAL LIFEBUTTIGIEG MET HIS HBAND, CHASTEN, ON A DATG APP 2015 AND MARRIED HIM THREE YEARS LATER. HAVG EARNED HIS MASTER'S AT DEPL UNIVERSY, CHASTEN BEME A JUNR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER AND TGHT AT MONTSORI AMY INDIANA. AFTER BUTTIGIEG ANNOUNCED HIS PRINTIAL N, CHASTEN RELQUISHED HIS TEACHG POSN TO TRAVEL WH HIM AND SUPPORT HIS NDIDACY.AN EPISPALIAN, BUTTIGIEG WAS UNIQUE AMONG HIS 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL LLEAGU FOR MAKG HIS CHRISTIAN FAH A RNERSTONE OF HIS POLIL INTY. KNOWN FOR LLG OUT RELIG REPUBLINS WHO VOTE AGAST MEASUR THAT UNRME THE NEEDS OF THE POOR, BUTTIGIEG RECEIVED PRAISE OM SOME AND CRICISM OM OTHERS RELIG CIRCL.HE PUBLICLY LAMBASTED VICE PRINT MIKE PENCE, WHO IS AN EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN, FOR BEG A "CHEERLEAR FOR THE PORN-STAR PRINCY" AND CRICIZED NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS WHO SUPPORTED PRINT TMP."BEE MY PARTY'S BEEN SO ALLERGIC TO RELIG LANGUAGE, WE'VE FOTTEN THAT PEOPLE NEED TO BE MA AWARE OF THEIR CHOICE," BUTTIGIEG TOLD CNN. "I'VE GOT TO SPEAK UP, IF ONLY TO POT OUT THE HYPOCRISI OF THOSE NOW POWER. TIME WILL TELL WHETHER THAT'S SMART POLILLY OR NOT."{BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK {FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;MARG:0.9375REM 0 0 0.625REM;PADDG:0 0 0 1.25REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:0.9375REM 0;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} LI{PADDG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} LI::MARKER{LOR:#323232;}BIRTH YEAR: 1982BIRTH DATE: JANUARY 19, 1982BIRTH STATE: INDIANABIRTH CY: SOUTH BENDBIRTH COUNTRY: UNED STATBT KNOWN FOR: PETE BUTTIGIEG, A FORMER MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, WAS AMONG THE 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDAT AND IS THE CURRENT SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATN. HE IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN BET SECRETARY.ASTROLOGIL SIGN: CAPRIRNFACT CHECK
• SOUTH BEND, INDIANA MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG OUT AS GAY
• SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, MAYOR ANNOUNC HE'S GAY
• PETE BUTTIGIEG, MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, COM OUT AS GAYHE'S ALSO A HARVARD GRADUATE, A VETERAN AND A RHOS {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY DAN AVERYJUNE 16, 2015/6:42 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}FACEBOOKBY DAN AVERYJUNE 16, 2015 / 6:42 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"PETE BUTTIGIEG, MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, COM OUT AS GAY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-06-16T22:42:12.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-06-16T22:42:12.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WE GENERALLY DON'T THK OF INDIANA AS A HOTBED OF HOMOSEXUALY—WHAT WH THEIR RELIG EEDOM LAWS AND BIGOTED PIZZA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT PETE BUTTIGIEG, MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, MAY CHANGE THAT PERCEPTN: BUTTIGIEG, 33, ME OUT AS GAY TODAY AN OP-ED THE SOUTH BEND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I WAS WELL TO ADULTHOOD BEFORE I WAS PREPARED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE SIMPLE FACT THAT I AM GAY. IT TOOK YEARS OF STGGLE AND GROWTH FOR ME TO REGNIZE THAT ’S JT A FACT OF LIFE, LIKE HAVG BROWN HAIR, AND PART OF WHO I {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PUTTG SOMETHG THIS PERSONAL ON THE PAG OF A NEWSPAPER DO NOT E EASY. WE MIDWTERNERS ARE STCTIVELY PRIVATE TO BEG WH, AND I’M NOT ED TO VIEWG THIS AS ANYONE ELSE’S BS. BUT ’S CLEAR TO ME THAT AT A MOMENT LIKE THIS, BEG MORE OPEN ABOUT ULD DO SOME {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR A LOL STUNT STGGLG WH HER SEXUALY, MIGHT BE HELPFUL FOR AN OPENLY GAY MAYOR TO SEND THE MSAGE THAT HER MUNY WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PLACE FOR HER. AND FOR A NSERVATIVE RINT OM A DIFFERENT GENERATN, WHOSE UNEASE WH SOCIAL CHANGE IS PARTLY ROOTED THE IMPRSN THAT HE DON’T KNOW ANYONE GAY, PERHAPS A FAIAR FACE N BE A REMR THAT WE’RE ALL THIS TOGETHER AS A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT LOOKS LIKE BUTTIGIEG IS SGLE, THOUGH HE WR, "I WOULD LIKE TO GET MARRIED ONE DAY AND EVENTUALLY RAISE A FAY." HE SAYS WHEN HIS CHILDREN ARE OLR, HE HOP "THEY WILL BE PUZZLED THAT SOMEONE LIKE ME REVEALG HE IS GAY WAS EVER NSIRED TO BE NEWSWORTHY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUTTIGIEG WAS BORN SOUTH BEND, INDIANA'S FOURTH BIGGT CY, AND WAS ELECTED MAYOR 2011. HE WAS REELECTED LAST MONTH, WHEN HE EARNED AN OVERWHELMG 78% OF THE VOTE. 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• SOUTH BEND MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG LNCH PRINTIAL EXPLORATORY MTEE, ULD BE NATN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY NOMEE
• WHO IS PETE BUTTIGIEG? GAY NAVY VETERAN AND MAYOR OF INDIANA'S SOUTH BEND EXPLORG CANDIDACY FOR 2020 ELECTN

MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, beme the first openly gay ndidate the 2020 printial race Wednday, jog an already crowd field of Democratic hopefuls. “I’m om the Midwt, so the issu of makg sure that we have a posive way forward for workers and fai the dtrial Midwt — this is not theoretil for me, ’s my home, ” Buttigieg Buttigieg were to overe the long odds and bee the Democratic nomee for print, he would be the first openly gay nomee and the first veteran of the Afghanistan War, where he served a tour as a Naval Rerve officer.

“I was well to adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay, ” Buttigieg wrote at the time.

PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE

Former 2020 printial ndidate and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has ma history as the first openly gay Cabet member U.

"I n remember watchg the news -- 17-years-old Indiana, seeg a story about an appotee of Print Clton named to be an ambassador attacked and nied a vote the Senate bee he was gay -- ultimately able to serve only by a recs appotment, " he said.

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A GRADUATE OF HARVARD UNIVERSY AND AN OXFORD RHOS SCHOLAR, BUTTIGIEG ENLISTED THE U.S. NAVY RERVE AND BEME A LITENANT WHEN HE WAS PLOYED TO AFGHANISTAN 2014. IN APRIL 2019 HE ANNOUNCED HIS NDIDACY THE 2020 U.S. PRINTIAL ELECTN, A BID THAT WOULD HAVE MA HIM THE YOUNGT AND THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT U.S. HISTORY. DPE EMERGG AS A TOP-TIER DEMOCRATIC NDIDATE, BUTTIGIEG SPEND HIS MPAIGN EARLY MARCH 2020.EARLY LIFE AND FAYTHE ONLY CHILD TO PARENTS JOSEPH AND JENNIFER BUTTIGIEG, PETER PL MONTGOMERY BUTTIGIEG WAS BORN ON JANUARY 19, 1982, AND RAISED SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. HIS FATHER IMMIGRATED OM MALTA WHILE LLEGE, AND ALTHOUGH HE STUDIED TO BE A JU PRIT, JOSEPH END UP BEG A LERATURE PROFSOR AT THE UNIVERSY OF NOTRE DAME FOR NEARLY THREE S.BUTTIGIEG'S MOTHER, JENNIFER, IS A LGUIST AND HAILS OM INDIANA. LIKE HER HBAND, JENNIFER TGHT AT THE UNIVERSY OF NOTRE DAME AS A PROFSOR FOR ALMOST THREE S.EDUTNTHE CHILD OF TWO LLEGE PROFSORS, BUTTIGIEG EXCELLED AMILLY. HE WAS HIS HIGH SCHOOL'S VALEDICTORIAN AND ALSO MATRICULATED TO HARVARD UNIVERSY AS A HISTORY AND LERATURE MAJOR. AFTER GRADUATG 2004, HE BEME A RHOS SCHOLAR AT THE UNIVERSY OF OXFORD AND GRADUATED WH A B.A. PHILOSOPHY, POLICS AND ENOMICS.DURG HIS LLEGE YEARS, BUTTIGIEG GOT VOLVED POLICS ON THE STATE LEVEL AND WAS LATER EMPLOYED AS A DIRECTOR BY A NSULTG FIRM WASHGTON, D.C. POST LLEGE, HE WORKED ON JOHN KERRY'S PRINTIAL MPAIGN 2004 AND FOR ANOTHER NSULTG FIRM, MCKSEY & COMPANY, CHIGO. HE CURRENTLY SERV AS AN ADVISOR FOR THE TMAN NATNAL SECURY PROJECT, A PROGRSIVE NATNAL SECURY ANIZATN.BIS HIS NATIVE ENGLISH, BUTTIGIEG HAS FLUENCY SEVEN ADDNAL LANGUAG: ITALIAN, MALTE, SPANISH, DARI PERSIAN, ARABIC, FRENCH AND NORWEIGAN (THE LAST BEG SELF-TGHT).MILARY SERVICEAS A SUPPORTER AND VOLUNTEER OF {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}BARACK OBAMA'S PRINTIAL BID, BUTTIGIEG WAS SPIRED TO ENLIST THE ARY 2007. TWO YEARS LATER, HE BEME A U.S. NAVY RERVE OFFICER, AND WHILE SERVG HIS FIRST TERM AS THE MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND 2014, WAS PLOYED TO KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, WHERE HE TOOK PART THE AFGHANISTAN THREAT FANCE CELL (ATFC), WHICH AIMED TO DISPT THE FANCIAL SYSTEMS OF TERRORIST ANIZATNS.IN HIS 2019 TOBGRAPHY, SHORTT WAY HOME, BUTTIGIEG SCRIBED SERVG DANGERO AREAS KABUL: “IN A RUAL TO BE REPEATED DOZENS OF TIM, I WOULD HEAVE MY ARMORED TORSO TO THE DRIVER’S SEAT OF A LAND CISER, CHAMBER A ROUND MY M4, LOCK THE DOORS AND WAVE A GLOVED GOODBYE TO THE MACEDONIAN GATE GUARD,” BUTTIGIEG WROTE. “MY VEHICLE WOULD CROSS OUTSI THE WIRE AND TO THE BOISTERO AFGHAN CY, ENTERG A WORLD FELY MORE TERTG AND ORDARY AND DANGERO THAN OUR ZONE BEHD THE BLAST WALLS AT ISAF HEADQUARTERS.”MOVED BY HIS OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE, 2015, BUTTIGIEG ME OUT AS A GAY MAN.MAYOR OF SOUTH BENDAFTER WNG THE MAYORAL ELECTN SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, BUTTIGIEG, THEN JT 29 YEARS OLD, TOOK HIS OFFICE JANUARY 2012 AND BEME THE YOUNGT MAYOR TO SERVE A U.S. CY WH OVER 100,000 RINTS.BUTTIGIEG WAS RE-ELECTED 2015, BUT NOT WHOUT A STA ON HIS RERD: DURG HIS FIRST TERM, FERAL THORI UNVERED THAT SOUTH BEND'S POLICE WERE ILLEGALLY WIRETAPPG SOME OF S OFFICERS' PHONE LLS, UNR THE REQUT OF POLICE CHIEF DARRYL BOYKS. THIS PROMPTED BUTTIGIEG TO NOT ONLY MOTE BOYKS BUT TO LATER ASK FOR HIS RIGNATN. BOYKS, WHO WAS THE CY'S FIRST BLACK POLICE CHIEF, EVENTUALLY SUED THE CY, CLAIMG DISCRIMATN (PREV WHE POLICE CHIEFS PURPORTEDLY NDUCTED THE SAME WIRETAPPG POLICY). THIS NTROVERSIAL EVENT, BUTTIGIEG CLAIMS, WAS HIS "FIRST SER MISTAKE AS MAYOR."DPE ACCG SOME NTROVERSI, BUTTIGIEG ALSO HELPED TRANSFORM THE CY. HE CREATED PROGRAMS TO REPAIR AND CLEAN UP ABANDONED BUILDGS, ASSISTED LOW-G HOG AND PROMOTED URBAN VELOPMENT PROJECTS.BUTTIGIEG LEFT OFFICE AFTER PLETG TWO TERMS, GIVG WAY TO HIS FORMER HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATE AND CHIEF OF STAFF, JAM MUELLER.POLIL CAREERBUTTIGIEG LACKED THE NAME REGNN AND SUPPORT OF OTHER LEADG DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT WHEN HE FORMALLY LNCHED HIS PRINTIAL MPAIGN APRIL 2019, BUT HE SOON GAED GROUND THANKS TO HIS OBV TELLECT AND CHARISMA, AND TOWARD THE END OF THE YEAR HE WAS TRAILG ONLY THE BIG THREE OF JOE BIN, BERNIE SANRS AND ELIZABETH WARREN THE POLLS.MEDIRE FOR ALL WHO WANT ITWHILE THE HEALTHRE BATE AMERI NTU TO BE HEATED AND NTROVERSIAL, BUTTIGIEG TOOK A MIDDLE-GROUND APPROACH TO THIS ISSUE. HE SUPPORTED GIVG AMERINS A CHOICE THEIR HEALTHRE BY PROPOSG AN "OPT " OPTN, WHILE SIMULTANEOLY ALLOWG AMERINS WHO PREFER TO STAY WH PRIVATE SURANCE TO HAVE THAT ALTERNATIVE AVAILABLE. BUTTIGIEG'S "MEDIRE FOR ALL WHO WANT IT" NTRASTED WH THE ERNMENT-N SGLE-PAYER PROPOSAL BACKED BY THE MORE PROGRSIVE NDIDAT SUCH AS SANRS AND WARREN.THE DOUGLASS PLANTO ADDRS THE ISSU OF BLACK DISENANCHISEMENT AND REPARATNS, WHICH WERE AMONG THE TOPICS BATED BY 2020 DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT, BUTTIGIEG PROPOSED THE DOUGLASS PLAN. NAMED AFTER THE ABOLNIST AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST FRERICK DOUGLASS, THE PLAN OFFERED IMPROVED HEALTHRE POLICI TO THE BLACK MUNY, GIVG MORE ACCS TO CRED FOR BLACK BS AND ENTREPRENRS, A REVTMENT TN AND SYSTEMATIC CRIMAL JTICE REFORM. WHILE THE DOUGLASS PLAN SPECIFILLY FOCED ON THE NEEDS AND NCERNS OF AIN AMERINS, ALSO SERVED TO AID OTHER DISENANCHISED MORY GROUPS.NATNAL SERVICEBUTTIGIEG CREATED "A NEW CALL TO SERVICE" PLAN THAT ENURAGED HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS TO SERVE NATNAL PROGRAMS LIKE THE PEACE CORPS AND AMERICORPS AND TO ENGAGE SOME OF THE PRSG ISSU OF THE TIM, CLUDG CLIMATE CHANGE, ADDICTN AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSU AND MENTORSHIP. THE U.S. SUPREME COURTIN AN EFFORT TO POLICIZE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, BUTTIGIEG NSIRED THE ALTERNATIVE OF ADDG FIVE MORE JTIC TO THE CURRENT COURT STCTURE. VETTED BY THE LOWER URTS, THE ADDNAL JTIC WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO SERVE AFTER BEG UNANIMOLY VOTED BY THE ORIGAL NE U.S. SUPREME COURT JTIC. BUTTIGIEG ALSO NSIRED TERM LIMS FOR JTIC, SAYG HE WOULD FORM A BIPARTISAN MISSN TO EXPLORE THE BT AND MOST VIABLE OPTNS IF ELECTED PRINT.SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATNON FEBARY 2, 2021, BUTTIGIEG WAS NFIRMED AS PRINT BIN'S SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATN, MAKG HIM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN BET SECRETARY. "I'M HONORED AND HUMBLED BY TODAY'S VOTE THE SENATE—AND READY TO GET TO WORK," HE TWEETED.DROPPG OUTALTHOUGH BUTTIGIEG'S MPAIGN WAS SEEMGLY ON STRONG GROUND WHEN HE WON THE NTROVERSIAL IOWA UC EARLY FEBARY 2020, THE NDIDATE WAS UNABLE TO STA THE MOMENTUM THROUGH SUBSEQUENT PRIMARI. ON MARCH 1, AFTER FISHG WELL BEHD BIN AND SANRS SOUTH CAROLA, BUTTIGIEG ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS DROPPG OUT OF THE PRINTIAL RACE."OUR GOAL HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO UNIFY AMERINS TO FEAT DONALD TMP AND TO W THE ERA FOR OUR VALU," HE TOLD SUPPORTERS. "SO WE MT REGNIZE THAT AT THIS POT THE RACE THE BT WAY TO KEEP FAH WH THOSE GOALS AND IALS IS TO STEP ASI AND TO HELP BRG OUR PARTY AND OUR UNTRY TOGETHER."HBAND AND PERSONAL LIFEBUTTIGIEG MET HIS HBAND, CHASTEN, ON A DATG APP 2015 AND MARRIED HIM THREE YEARS LATER. HAVG EARNED HIS MASTER'S AT DEPL UNIVERSY, CHASTEN BEME A JUNR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER AND TGHT AT MONTSORI AMY INDIANA. AFTER BUTTIGIEG ANNOUNCED HIS PRINTIAL N, CHASTEN RELQUISHED HIS TEACHG POSN TO TRAVEL WH HIM AND SUPPORT HIS NDIDACY.AN EPISPALIAN, BUTTIGIEG WAS UNIQUE AMONG HIS 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL LLEAGU FOR MAKG HIS CHRISTIAN FAH A RNERSTONE OF HIS POLIL INTY. KNOWN FOR LLG OUT RELIG REPUBLINS WHO VOTE AGAST MEASUR THAT UNRME THE NEEDS OF THE POOR, BUTTIGIEG RECEIVED PRAISE OM SOME AND CRICISM OM OTHERS RELIG CIRCL.HE PUBLICLY LAMBASTED VICE PRINT MIKE PENCE, WHO IS AN EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN, FOR BEG A "CHEERLEAR FOR THE PORN-STAR PRINCY" AND CRICIZED NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS WHO SUPPORTED PRINT TMP."BEE MY PARTY'S BEEN SO ALLERGIC TO RELIG LANGUAGE, WE'VE FOTTEN THAT PEOPLE NEED TO BE MA AWARE OF THEIR CHOICE," BUTTIGIEG TOLD CNN. "I'VE GOT TO SPEAK UP, IF ONLY TO POT OUT THE HYPOCRISI OF THOSE NOW POWER. TIME WILL TELL WHETHER THAT'S SMART POLILLY OR NOT."{BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK {FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;MARG:0.9375REM 0 0 0.625REM;PADDG:0 0 0 1.25REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:0.9375REM 0;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} LI{PADDG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} LI::MARKER{LOR:#323232;}BIRTH YEAR: 1982BIRTH DATE: JANUARY 19, 1982BIRTH STATE: INDIANABIRTH CY: SOUTH BENDBIRTH COUNTRY: UNED STATBT KNOWN FOR: PETE BUTTIGIEG, A FORMER MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, WAS AMONG THE 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDAT AND IS THE CURRENT SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATN. HE IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN BET SECRETARY.ASTROLOGIL SIGN: CAPRIRNFACT CHECK

Eric Fanng served as Secretary of the Army durg the Obama Admistratn, the first openly gay dividual to hold an armed service's top civilian posn.

In the Tmp admistratn, Richard Grenell served as actg director of Natnal Intelligence, the first openly gay dividual to serve a Cabet-level posn an actg pacy, but his posn was not 's Cabet also clus the first female treasury secretary, first female director of Natnal Intelligence and first Black fense secretary. Printial electn, a bid that would have ma him the youngt and the first openly gay print U.

SOUTH BEND, INDIANA MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG OUT AS GAY

”Moved by his overseas experience, 2015, Buttigieg me out as a gay of South BendAfter wng the mayoral electn South Bend, Indiana, Buttigieg, then jt 29 years old, took his office January 2012 and beme the youngt mayor to serve a U.

Secretary of TransportatnOn Febary 2, 2021, Buttigieg was nfirmed as Print Bin's secretary of transportatn, makg him the first openly gay man bet secretary. He is the first openly gay man bet secretary.

SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, MAYOR ANNOUNC HE'S GAY

Buttigieg me out publicly as gay an op-ed published by the South Bend Tribune on June 16, 2015, amid his re-electn mpaign, and he told Oprah Magaze last year that the cisn followed his return om Afghanistan, when he beme “sudnly urgently aware that you only get one life. The mayor of South Bend, Indiana -- home to the famed Catholic Universy of Notre Dame, and the state’s fourth-largt cy -- me out publicly as gay on Tuday, wrg an say for the South Bend Tribune that “beg more open about uld do some good.

”“For a lol stunt stgglg wh her sexualy, might be helpful for an openly gay mayor to send the msage that her muny will always have a place for her, ” wrote South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

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“And for a nservative rint om a different generatn, whose unease wh social change is partly rooted the imprsn that he don’t know anyone gay, perhaps a faiar face n be a remr that we’re all this together as a muny. ”“Today remas legal most parts of Indiana (though not South Bend) to fire someone simply for beg gay, ” Buttigied wrote, “and bullyg still ntribut to tragilly high suici rat among LGBT teens.

”Indiana is one of 36 stat where gay and lbian upl n legally wed.

PETE BUTTIGIEG IS AN OPENLY GAY ARY VETERAN, RHOS SCHOLAR, AND DEMOCRATIC MAYOR A RED STATE. HE'S ALSO NNG FOR PRINT

Mayor Pete Buttigieg's announcement Tuday that he is gay drew a quick and largely posive rponse onle and lol, statewi and even natnal polil circl.

SOUTH BEND MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG LNCH PRINTIAL EXPLORATORY MTEE, ULD BE NATN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY NOMEE

It also posned the first-term Democrat as the first openly gay executive the state, and the hight elected official Indiana to e out. Both men scribed Buttigieg's cisn to e out as "urageo" light of still-evolvg views on homosexualy.

WHO IS PETE BUTTIGIEG? GAY NAVY VETERAN AND MAYOR OF INDIANA'S SOUTH BEND EXPLORG CANDIDACY FOR 2020 ELECTN

Dpe personal objectns to homosexualy, Kelly Jon, the mayor's Republin opponent, appld him for his bravery.

Jon said her personal view on homosexualy is that is a s, "but... I have several fay members and iends that are gay and I uld personally re ls about their sexualy.

Cy of more than 100, 000 people, Buttigieg, 33, amed his announcement as an opportuny to discs the topic openly light of the pendg Supreme Court cisn on gay marriage. In a precent-settg se, the urt is expected to le on the nstutnaly of gay marriage bans Oh, Tennsee, Michigan and Kentucky the g days.