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Contents:
- WHICH DEMOCRATIC U.S. SENATORS HAVE THE GAYT AND LEAST GAY STAFFS?
- MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
- SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
- IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN
WHICH DEMOCRATIC U.S. SENATORS HAVE THE GAYT AND LEAST GAY STAFFS?
Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana — the first ndidate who is a lennial, openly gay and an Afghan War veteran, jos the 2020 printial race, sayg, "our untry needs a h start." * democratic gay candidate *
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.
MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
Democratic printial ndidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 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. * democratic gay candidate *
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He did so the face of “a hell of a lot of homophobia the Black muny, ” said Ron Daniels, a former puty mpaign manager.
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SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
At least 1, 095 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people have n or are still nng for office at all levels this year, up om 1, 006 2020, acrdg to data om the LGBTQ Victory New York, two gay ndidat — Democrat Robert Zimmerman and Republin Gee Santos — are nng to fill the seat vated by Democrat Tom Suozzi New York’s 3rd Congrsnal District. Hoe, acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory this race guaranteed to rult a w for a gay ndidate, the oute of the electn will help terme whether Democrats hang on to their slim majory the Hoe.
'It was gog to happen sooner of later'The odds of a faceoff between two gay ndidat have gone up recent years, bee there’s been an crease LGBTQ ndidat at all levels of ernment. “It was gog to happen sooner or later, ” said Donald Hair-Markel, a polil science profsor at the Universy of Kansas and the thor of “Out and Runng: Gay and Lbian Candidat, Electns and Policy Reprentatn.
”Image: Robert Zimmerman (Patrick McMullan via Getty Imag file)Zimmerman slammed Santos for his support of former Print Donald Tmp, who he said advoted a “homophobic, bigoted, ” agenda. “I’ve been approached by so many parents of gay kids, ” Zimmerman said.
IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN
“The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills have a chillg effect well beyond the borrs of Florida, ” he add, referrg to Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law, which lims classroom stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty. “I am an openly gay ndidate.
“I am not for the state oversteppg the church, ” he Republins voted for the Rpect for Marriage Act the Hoe, and Santos said “that shows that the Republin party is far om homophobic. “The issue is not that both of are gay, ” Zimmerman said.