Is Peet Montzgo Gay? Fans have speculated that the TikTok star is gay, but are there any tths to the speculatns? Read more to fd out.
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- IN STIRRG SPEECH, PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AGA FOR LGBTQ AMERINS AS FIRST GAY BET NOMEE
- 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-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;} 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
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IN STIRRG SPEECH, PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AGA FOR LGBTQ AMERINS AS FIRST GAY BET NOMEE
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“This will be a historic tone for LGBTQ visibily, ” said GLAAD print/CEO Sarah Kate Ellis a statement posted on Twter, notg that should the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor be nfirmed by the Senate, he would bee the first openly gay Cabet secretary U. “If you’re not at the table, you’re probably on the menu, ” Jenngs said an terview, notg that gay Amerins died by the tens of thoands whout high-level reprentatn durg the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. ”Meanwhile, the Log Cab Republins, an anizatn reprentg LGBT nservativ, were quick to note that Buttigieg would not be the first openly gay man to serve a Cabet-level role.
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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. 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Navy Rerve, me out as gay while servg as South Bend mayor 2015, sayg he had felt for years that he uld be out or polics, but not nomatn as Transportatn secretary, said LGBTQ Victory Instute print Annise Parker, “is a new tone a s-long effort to ensure LGBTQ people are reprented throughout our ernment – and s impact will reverberate well beyond the partment he will lead. Supreme Vedda, print and CEO of the North Texas LGBT Chamber of Commerce, said he hoped Buttigieg is appreciated as much for the skills and perspective he brgs to the Cabet role as for his stat as a gay man, though he acknowledged that Buttigieg’s visibily uld help break down stereotyp. By now, you may have heard that some queer people thk that Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a current ntenr for the Democratic Printial nomatn, is not gay enough.
” I am here to notn that some of thk Buttigieg is not gay enough has an intifiable relatnship to the facts, which are that, for the purpos of this discsn, people who grew up queer this untry fall to two distct tegori of experience. And then there is the other experience, the life of blendg , only to surprise your classmat—or, more likely, former classmat who follow you on social media—wh the revelatn that you are gay. Recently, a iend mentned that, after thirty years of teachg, she had mentned her wife class for the first time, surprisg her stunts wh the revelatn that she was gay—and I found myself momentarily marvellg at havg the optn to e out to one’s stunts or part of his mpaign, and velopg his polil persona, Buttigieg has repeatedly told a pellg story about his g out.
He also waed until after attus toward homosexualy had changed and same-sex marriage had bee legal more than half the stat and was regnized by the feral ernment—all thanks to the urage and work of people who me out before Buttigieg did. Buttigieg embodi the send kd of gay experience and the send kd of gay polics. It’s offerg the promise that our first gay first fay might actually be a straight one.
PETE'S GAY AFFAIRS REVELATN
Pete Buttigieg said "statistilly, 's almost certa," the U.S. has had a gay print. Many historians disagree * pete is gay *
”What mak Buttigieg an easy and reassurg choice for the olr, whe, straight people, and a disturbg possibily for the queer people who seem to be cricizg him for not beg gay enough?
He is an old polician a young man’s body, a straight polician a gay man’s body. Printial electn, a bid that would have ma him the youngt and the first openly gay print U. ”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. The Who's guarist Pete Townshend has told how he had homosexual liaisons his youth.
IS PEET MONTZGO GAY? A CLOSE LOOK AT HIS SEXUALY
' I ' m 57, I ' ve got a young girliend, I'm not gay. Dpe his efforts to keep his romantic relatnships private, fans and media outlets have ntued to speculate about his sexualy, wh many askg if the Tiktok star is gay. Townshend creds the 1980 song “Empty Glass” as beg a song about ”g out, an acknowledgment of the fact that I’d had a gay life, and that I unrstood what gay sex was about.
On Aug 2, 2022 @ 1:23 GMT-0500Pete Williams me out as gay the 1990s and spe beg out of the closet for so long, he don't seem to have married anyone. Wh the news of his retirement, he has gaed notoriety, and people are askg onle if he is gay sce he hasn't had any girliends up until now. Prevly, we touched on the orientatn of Chris Evans and Ryan Williams Has Openly Been Gay Sce 1990s: The NBC Journalist Never Had a Wife: Is David L Gardner His Hband/Partner?
Pete Williams (@petewilliamsnbc) has been openly gay sce the 1990s. Fans are cur about Pete's gay partner or partner of journalist Pete Williams, acrdg to U. Michelangelo Signorile, a wrer, and activist revealed Williams' homosexualy 1991.
IS PETE WILLIAMS GAY? DO HE HAVE A WIFE? IS DAVID L GARDNER HIS HBAND/PARTNER?
Although he keeps his private life off of social media and is a very private person, is clear that he is gay bee he me out the 1990s.
Pete Buttigieg believ he probably won’t be the first gay print if he’s elected 2020.
PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
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.
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.
KANYE WT ALLEGEDLY SPREADG UNFOUND MORS PETE DAVIDSON IS GAY, HAS AIDS
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.