Buttigieg: ‘I’m not nng to be the gay print of the Uned Stat’ – The Hill

Contents:

• IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
• A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS GAY PRINTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ELECTED BUT DON'T KNOW WHICH ON: 'MY GAYDAR DON'T EVEN WORK THAT WELL THE PRENT'
• OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
• PETE BUTTIGIEG IS MAKG HISTORY WH 2020 N, BUT MANY AMERINS THK US NOT READY FOR GAY PRINT
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• BUTTIGIEG: ‘I’M NOT NNG TO BE THE GAY PRINT OF THE UNED STAT’
• ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT
• THERE WON’T BE A GAY PRINT 2021. SO WHAT DO BUTTIGIEG’S CAMPAIGN TELL US?
• WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N
• A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY
• IS AMERI READY FOR A GAY PRINT? ‘YOU’RE GOG TO SEE THE WALL CMBLE’
• POLL: MAJORY OF AMERINS ARE FORTABLE WH GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE

IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?

On the mpaign trail, he speaks of beg gay terms of fay valu, emphasizg he is a lovg, mted same-sex marriage, and what his ndidacy says about cln and equaly Ameri today.

“Pete’s succs so far this mpaign reprents an evolutn Amerin polics, upendg tradnal notns of electabily and provg that Ameri is ready to elect s first openly gay print, ” Ellt Imse, munitn director at the LGBTQ Victory Fund, said. “If Ain Amerins were sort of disproportnately cled to not vote for somebody who is gay, you would thk that would have shown up there as well, ” said David Barker, director of the Center for Congrsnal and Printial Studi at Amerin Universy Washgton.

Man, ” wh Buttigieg’s same-sex marriage, and said Amerins are “still not ready to elect a gay guy kissg his hband on the bate stage [as] print. Should Buttigieg w his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomatn, he will bee the first nomee of a major polil party who publicly intifi as gay.

A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.

That a gay married man is nng a ser mpaign for print, however, is a big al, and we shouldn’t let the improbabily of his ndidacy stop om acknowledgg this moment.

Barack Obama beme Print, and although he was supportive of expandg legal rights for the LGBT muny and gay upl, he was on the rerd durg his mpaign as beg opposed to same-sex marriage. In 2010, Print Obama signed to law the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act, endg a policy enacted 1993 that prevent gay men and lbians om servg openly the ary. In last year’s midterm electns, Colorado’s Jared Polis beme the first gay man the US to be elected ernor, Kyrsten Sema, who is bisexual, won a US Senate seat Arizona, and Sharice Davids, a lbian, won her US Hoe race Kansas.

All of this is to say, que simply, that a relatively brief perd of time, the polics surroundg gay marriage and LGBT equaly shifted dramatilly.

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

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.

PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS GAY PRINTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ELECTED BUT DON'T KNOW WHICH ON: 'MY GAYDAR DON'T EVEN WORK THAT WELL THE PRENT'

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. — Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, officially announced his printial bid Sunday afternoon, hopg to make history as the youngt-ever, and the first-ever openly gay, manr chief.

OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT

; was elected as the mayor of South Bend at the age of 29; took a leave of absence durg his first term to serve Afghanistan as a naval telligence officer; me out as gay a lumn his lol newspaper a few months before his re-electn; was re-elected wh nearly 80 percent of the vote; married his partner Chasten a church ceremony that was live-streamed on the Inter; and wrote a bt-sellg Sunday, Buttigieg ma equent mentn of each of the parts of his résumé, but spent particular time addrsg his ary service and his g out a bluntly personal way — and at tim meld stori om each part of his life together pellg yarns that prompted loud applse.

”Mayor Pete Buttigieg announc his printial bid Sunday South Bend, Grs / RtersButtigieg spent the months after his exploratory mtee lnch crisscrossg the untry, troducg himself to crowds the early-votg stat of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carola and Nevada, liverg a highly personal speech about how he wrtled wh his sexual orientatn, and takg shots at Vice Print Mike Pence over his stanc on gay marriage and LGBTQ jos an exceptnally crowd field of ndidat vyg for his party's nomatn. 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. Buttigieg ma the remarks after executive edor Mike Allen asked how the South Bend mayor would rpond to Republins that acce him of beg "too young, too liberal [and] too gay" to be print. Although 's impossible to know exactly how many Amerin men intify as gay—and have done the past—nearly 4 percent of men surveyed a 2017 Gallup poll intified as LGBT ialism, which stands for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr, enpass a wir spe of sexual orientatn and genr inty than gay, non-transgenr man.

PETE BUTTIGIEG IS MAKG HISTORY WH 2020 N, BUT MANY AMERINS THK US NOT READY FOR GAY PRINT

Print after polil nsultant and gay rights mpaigner Fred, who ran for the Republin nomatn 2012, praised Pete Buttigieg a recent op-ed for Newsweek, claimg the young mayor had held his own agast his more experienced rivals.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

“If elected, you would be the first openly gay print of the Uned Stat, ” Stephen Colbert said to Pete Buttigieg after the mayor of South Bend, Ind., clared his ndidacy. While the characterizatn of beg openly gay or “out” is relatively new, the fact is the Uned Stat has already had a gay print whose ntemporari knew : Jam Buchanan. Andrew Jackson referred to Kg as “Miss Nancy”— a phemism for a gay ntemporari lled Kg Buchanan’s “better half, ” and one ngrsman referred to him as “Mrs.

BUTTIGIEG: ‘I’M NOT NNG TO BE THE GAY PRINT OF THE UNED STAT’

At most uld suggt Buchanan was not openly discsg this moment, we fet that beg gay the mid-19th century did not tomatilly exclu a man om natnal learship. WASHINGTON – South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has ma history as the first openly gay printial ndidate to make a viable n for the nomatn of a major polil party, raisg the qutn: Is Ameri ready for a gay manr chief?

Fifty percent said they were personally ready for a gay or lbian print, pared wh 37% who said they were not (13% said they didn't know or had no opn). Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn. ”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive.

ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT

She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. ”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.

THERE WON’T BE A GAY PRINT 2021. SO WHAT DO BUTTIGIEG’S CAMPAIGN TELL US?

“To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters.

“Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30. Democratic printial hopeful and former mayor of South Bend, Ind., Pete Buttigieg said Monday durg a CNN town hall that he wants to serve the entire untry as print and not jt be “the gay print of the Uned Stat.

WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N

“I’m not nng to be the gay print of the Uned Stat, or the print of the gay Uned Stat, ” Buttigieg said while speakg wh CNN host Don Lemon durg the event Charlton, S.

Buttigieg, who has ma history as the first openly gay major Democratic printial ndidate, also spoke about a recent mpaign rally Denver where a 9-year-old boy asked him for advice on how to e out as a gay male. The first openly gay man to n for print the history of the Uned Stat is receivg a lot of qutns about how to rrectly pronounce his tongue-twistg fay Buttigieg, a Democrat, is currently mayor of the cy of South Bend, Indiana. As of last unt, 24 Democrats have dited or have actually entered the race to bee the party’s printial what has aroed the tert of Ameri’s polil ele is that Buttigieg is a proud openly gay man.

And while the new Congrs that took office last year had a rerd 10 openly LGBTQ+ members, no gay man or lbian had ever ma a credible n for the Whe Hoe.

A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY

It beme obv that his stat as a gay man was more of a pl than a m, a untry where the speed of progrs on the issu has routely been unrtimated, pecially the 21st century. “Sce 1972, anytime you asked me what might be like the next three years, I’ve always been too psimistic, ” said Barney Frank, the former Massachetts ngrsman who was the send Hoe member to say he was gay, 1987, and the first to marry his same-sex partner, 2012. ”For olr veterans of the movement like myself, who never expected marriage equaly our own lifetim – much ls a gay man the Whe Hoe – was pecially satisfyg to see this Rhos Scholar, an acplished lguist and ocsnal ncert pianist, charm his way to the top of the printial pack, to see him fish first Iowa and send New Hampshire, ahead of everyone except fied expectatns the bt way imagable to see Chris Wallace terview him on Fox News and never mentn his sexualy.

IS AMERI READY FOR A GAY PRINT? ‘YOU’RE GOG TO SEE THE WALL CMBLE’

And was thrillg when Rh Limbgh claimed that Ameri was “still not ready to elect a gay guy kissg his hband” – and Buttigieg shot back that his marriage to a man had “never volved me havg to send hh money to a porn star after cheatg on my spoe” mpaign entered the big leagu by raisg more than $80m om nearly a ln small donors. Movement veterans such as Andrew Tobias were pecially thrilled by the succs of someone who so rembled the hero of Tobias’s important novel of 1973, The Bt Ltle Boy the World, whose hero is a gay boy who needs to be better at jt about everythg, orr to succeed spe the fact that he is of who took the time to learn what Buttigieg actually stands for were lighted by how substantive he was.

POLL: MAJORY OF AMERINS ARE FORTABLE WH GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE

All of which meant he would not only be the first gay print – he would also be by far the most progrsive ndidate ever elected to the Whe only big surprise of his mpaign was also s biggt disappotment.

While rightwg homophob remaed largely silent, Buttigieg’s angrit opponents turned out to be radil queers, who cid that the first male ndidate to kiss his hband on natnal televisn jt wasn’t gay one gay adviser to the Buttigieg mpaign explaed to the Guardian: “There is a perceptn that the fact of likg other men is sufficient to give you any cred, bee no longer brgs any reprsn the circl that all of his crics hab. ” While people my age who me out right after the Stonewall Rts of 1969 were sympathetic to many different paths to openns, some astal thirtysomethg gay men and lbians cid Buttigieg’s failure to e out of the closet until he was 33 was a hopels sign of reactn of the crics to what they perceived as Buttigieg’s nservatism was so visceral that some pretend he was nothg more than an advote of the stat quo.