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• PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• 'MAYOR PETE' DIRECTOR ON WHETHER AN OUT GAY NDIDATE ULD BE ELECTED PRINT AMERI: 'WE DIDN'T GET TO SEE THAT TTED'
• 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

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. 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. Pete Buttigieg believ he probably won’t be the first gay print if he’s elected 2020. Mayor was asked how he’d rpond to crics who ll him too young, too liberal and too gay.

I would image we’ve probably had excellent prints who were gay — we jt didn’t know which on, ” Buttigeig said. Some of the most popular theori about whether there has ever been a gay print surround Print Jam Buchanan, one-term print om 1857-1861.

PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED

Has had a gay print–by the morn fn. “It might be more accurate to say that there may have been prints the past who sired men, or had sexual experienc wh men… they wouldn’t have necsarily intified as gay a 21st century sense.

Likely already had a gay print. For Buttigieg to say that another print may have been gay the way that ’s unrstood the 21st century, “’s jt farcil, ” Balcerski says. Has had a gay print?

Even if the two had some sort of attractn to other men, they wouldn’t have intified as gay bee that notn of livg as an out gay man didn’t exist, both historians say. The term homosexual, for stance, didn’t exist until 1868.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

“I thk that there were always gray areas and nuanc and plenty of possibili for men the late 19th and 20th century to have sex wh other men and not nsir themselv gay, ” Clev says. But by the standard of morn gay inty, no print would f to that tegory. ” Both Balcerski and Clev say gay inty needs to be seen through the lens of the era.

'MAYOR PETE' DIRECTOR ON WHETHER AN OUT GAY NDIDATE ULD BE ELECTED PRINT AMERI: 'WE DIDN'T GET TO SEE THAT TTED'

“Did Jam Buchanan or Abraham Lln intify as gay the morn sense of the term? The 19th century was an era before homosexualy was medilly classified as a disorr or perversn.

“I fd that the early 19th century, ironilly, almost prents an era where the same kds of pathologi [agast gay men] that will be prent all the way through the pre-Stonewall era aren’t que place yet. Balcerski says ’s important to chronicle gay history, but he says popular theori about the lik of Buchanan and Lln are too simplistic. “As we bee more and more terted broang the tt, so to speak, of LGBT history, what we fd is we’ve taken people, who for one reason or another, don’t f to a normative pattern of heterosexual marriage and we basilly put this label on them as gay, ” Balcerski says.

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

Harvard UniversyTHE LONG RUNAnd why took him until he was 33 to e Buttigieg as a senr at Harvard UniversyJuly 14, 2019The closet that Pete Buttigieg built for himself the late 1990s and 2000s was a lot like the on that other gay men of his age and ambn hid si. Buttigieg’s class, relled that “ was still a time where volizg anti-gay sentiments was not only mon, but I thk pretty accepted.

”The thought that 15 years later someone they might have shared a dorm or sat a lecture hall wh would bee the first ser openly gay ndidate for print of the Uned Stat never crossed their mds. But no one would have found the possibily more implsible than the young man everyone on mp knew as Buttigieg, now the mayor of South Bend, Ind., stggled for a after leavg Harvard to overe the fear that beg gay was “a reer ath sentence, ” as he put his his generatn and his llege class cid to e out as young adults, whether they were nfint they would be accepted or not, and had their 20s to navigate beg open about their inty — a procs that helped make Amerins more aware and acceptg of their gay iends, fay members and -workers.