Buttigieg, the first openly gay Democratic printial ndidate, was hated by the left. Why? | Aaron Hickl | The Guardian

Contents:

• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
• HARVARD NAM CLDE GAY 30TH PRINT
• IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
• COMPARG THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY’ PRINTIAL CANDIDAT HISTORY
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE YOUNG, GAY VETERAN AND MIDWT MAYOR WHO WANTS TO TAKE ON TMP 2020
• BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL CANDIDATE MAK HISTORY — AND SPARKS CRICISM
• BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDATE, WAS HATED BY THE LEFT. WHY?
• FIRST OPENLY GAY BRAZILIAN 2022 PRINTIAL CANDIDATE RUNNG
• ALMOST 70 PERCENT OF AMERINS OK WH GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE, POLL FDS
• AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE

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.

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. 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.

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

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. Three years later, the Supreme Court led that stat nnot ban same-sex marriage, makg legal natnwi for gay and lbian upl to marry.

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. 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 muny.

HARVARD NAM CLDE GAY 30TH PRINT

Has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay. Clde Gay, a wily admired higher tn lear and distguished scholar of mocracy and polil participatn, will bee the 30th print of Harvard Universy on July 1.

Sce 2018, Gay has served as the Edgerley Fay Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc (FAS), the Universy’s largt and most amilly diverse faculty, spanng the blogil and physil scienc and engeerg, the social scienc, and the humani and arts. The dghter of Haian immigrants, Gay received her bachelor’s gree 1992 om Stanford, where she majored enomics and was award the Anna Lra Myers Prize for bt unrgraduate this. A quantative social scientist wh expertise polil behavr, Gay served as an assistant profsor and then tenured associate profsor at Stanford before beg reced to Harvard 2006 as a profsor of ernment.

IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?

Speakg after her electn, Gay said, “I am humbled by the nfince that the erng boards have placed me and by the prospect of succeedg Print Baw leadg this remarkable stutn.

COMPARG THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY’ PRINTIAL CANDIDAT HISTORY

“Today, we are a moment of remarkable and acceleratg change — socially, polilly, enomilly, and technologilly, ” said Gay. Gay was elected to the princy today by the Harvard Corporatn, the Universy’s prcipal erng board, wh the nsent of the Universy’s Board of Overseers.

Known for her broad tellectual cursy and terdisciplary outlook, Gay is regnized as a highly fluential expert on Amerin polil participatn. A member of the Amerin Amy of Arts and Scienc, Gay has pursued her scholarship as a fellow at the Public Policy Instute of California, the Center for Advanced Study the Behavral Scienc, and the Radcliffe Instute for Advanced Study at Harvard. “Clde Gay b one person many of the attribut that will be required of Harvard’s new print, ” said Shirley Tilghman, who served as print of Prceton Universy om 2001 to 2013, is profsor emera of molecular blogy and public affairs at Prceton, and serv on the Harvard Corporatn.

Reactg to Gay’s appotment, Ruth Simmons, print of Prairie View A&M Universy and print emera of Brown Universy, said, “In selectg Clde Gay as the next print, Harvard’s erng boards have monstrated a mment to ensurg that Harvard remas not only the preement universy the world but also the universy that leads wh creasg relevance to the world today.

MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE YOUNG, GAY VETERAN AND MIDWT MAYOR WHO WANTS TO TAKE ON TMP 2020

As an of FAS, Gay has advanced an amb agenda of amic prri, wh a foc on brgg rourc om across discipl to bear on issu of public nsequence.

In addn, Gay has been engaged a range of amic and programmatic iativ, cludg as a leadg voice wh both the Amic Council and the Provost’s Council, the two prcipal Universy-wi foms for chartg stutnal prri and plans.

BRAZIL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL CANDIDATE MAK HISTORY — AND SPARKS CRICISM

Gay also has a ep mment to amic eedom, llg “the touchstone for everythg we are tryg to achieve, ” and has been a strong advote for clive excellence throughout her reer, cludg durg her anship. “I uldn’t be more pleased by the selectn of Clde Gay as the next Harvard print, ” said Hopi Hoekstra, Alexanr Agassiz Profsor of Zoology at Harvard Universy.

Seekg to enable a strong, creative, and tellectually vibrant FAS for the long term, Gay iated a faculty-led, multiyear strategic planng effort the fall of 2021. Gay is creded wh leadg FAS faculty, stunts, and staff through a panmic that has ed disptn and dislotn at Harvard and across higher tn.

“Dean Gay very clearly tablished the fundamental prcipl that guid how FAS addrsed the many challeng posed by the panmic, ” said Christopher Stubbs, the Samuel C. “Dean Gay’s abily to lead om prciple and valu, alongsi a natural stct to brg people together om across discipl and areas of expertise to addrs big challeng, will serve Harvard well the years to e, ” said Stubbs.

BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDATE, WAS HATED BY THE LEFT. WHY?

“Clde Gay has monstrated visn to advance rearch and tn, ep mment to Harvard’s missn, temperament to listen and learn om the many rich sourc of expertise our faculty, and fortu to make difficult cisns. 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.

FIRST OPENLY GAY BRAZILIAN 2022 PRINTIAL CANDIDATE RUNNG

“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.

Kennedy has claimed that fluoridated water is “dggg” children, HIV do not e Aids and chemils the water are makg people gay or transgenr as well as phg nonsensil nspiracy theori about wifi and 5G cellular the son of former attorney general Robert Kennedy, and nephew of former print John F Kennedy, Kennedy has ed anguish to one of Ameri’s most storied polil dynasti wh his toxic 2019 three relativ wrote an opn lumn for the Poli webse nmng his anti-vacce advocy, which they held partially rponsible for a measl Congrsnal Integry Project ntends that Kennedy is a “Republin stooge” who is beg embraced by the far right an attempt to damage Bin. “It’s a book I wish I would have had when I was terrified, when I was believg that I was the only gay person the world for a long time.

— Pete Buttigieg, the former small-cy Indiana mayor and first openly gay major printial ndidate, said Sunday night he was droppg out of the Democratic race, followg a cshg loss the South Carola primary where his poor performance wh black Democrats signaled an abily to build a broad aln of cisn jt 48 hours before the biggt votg day of the primary, Super Tuday, when 15 stat and terrori will allot about one-third of the legat over all. Log Cab Republin Print Gregory Angelo said early on: Donald Tmp is the “most pro-gay” Republin printial ndidate history. Clton’s claim to the mantle as the Democratic Party’s most pro-gay printial ndidate history has to pete wh the party’s 2012 nomee, Print Barack Obama.

ALMOST 70 PERCENT OF AMERINS OK WH GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE, POLL FDS

From the money he’s given to HIV/AIDS NYC, to openg the first private club Palm Beach to allow open homosexuals to jo, to jt recently dismissg the dramatic bate the GOP and statg that Calyn Jenner should e whatever bathroom she wants at his Tmp properti, to brgg forward the issue of protectg our muny agast radil Islamic jihad and threats of vlence agast our eedoms; he has tly walked the talk, and that is a 30-pl year history of support, unlike Hillary Clton’s zig-zag on our issu over her 30 years the public eye.

In early September 2008, Log Cab’s board issued an enthiastic endorsement of Republin printial ndidate John McCa, llg him an “clive Republin” who bucked his own party by votg agast the anti-gay Feral Marriage Act. Meanwhile, numero LGBT groups have endorsed Clton: the Human Rights Campaign, the Lbian Polil Actn Commtee, the Congrsnal LGBT Cc polil actn mtee, and the Natnal Gay & Lbian Chamber of Commerce.

But the NBC poll September of 1, 728 registered voters who intified as “homosexual or bisexual, ” 72 percent said they would vote for Clton; 20 percent for Tmp. Lookg at data gog back to 1990 (the first year the Natnal Electn Pool ex poll sought to intify “gay, lbian, and bisexual” voters), the lowt LGB vote for Republins me 2008 when only 19 percent of LGB voters supported Republin John McCa. ” And his repeated promise to appot a Supreme Court nomee the mold of Anton Slia, who had the most anti-gay votg rerd of any jtice on the natn’s hight urt, will not likely earn him any LGBT vot.

AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE

Pro-active assist: As Secretary of State, Clton spoke publicly about the need to addrs hostili toward LGBT people around the world, sayg “gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights. GLAAD, the world’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocy anizatn, is releasg the fdgs of the first of an ongog seri of polls to gge and track motivatn, enthiasm, and issu ahead of the 2022 midterm electns takg place November.

Nearly 180 bills have been proposed 2022, most (97) targetg transgenr people and youth, wh a new foc on anti-LGBTQ school policy bills (69) that ban classroom nversatn and books about LGBTQ people unr the guise of “parents’ rights, ” like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Buttigieg is a Rhos Scholar and Afghanistan War veteran who n boast of beg the untry's youngt mayor of a cy of South Bend's size when he was elected 2011 at age if he ws the Democratic nomatn, Buttigieg would be the first openly gay printial ndidate nomated by a major party.