Why Pete Buttigieg's Theory About Secretly Gay Prints Is Complited | Time

Contents:

• IN STIRRG SPEECH, PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AGA FOR LGBTQ AMERINS AS FIRST GAY BET NOMEE
• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
• PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
• PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON NFIRMED TO US BET
• ‘IT GOT REAL GAY REAL QUICK’: PETE BUTTIGIEG’S RISE ELECTRIFI THE GAY MUNY, BUT HE ULD FACE A ROCKY ROAD
• PETE BUTTIGIEG DCRIB STGGLE WH COMG OUT AS GAY: ‘YOU ONLY GET ONE LIFE’

IN STIRRG SPEECH, PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AGA FOR LGBTQ AMERINS AS FIRST GAY BET NOMEE

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.

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

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. It’s offerg the promise that our first gay first fay might actually be a straight one.

”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? 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.

PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE

”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. Attus toward gay rights changed immensely durg that perd, though he acknowledg that he was not always able or willg to see what broar social and legal shifts meant for him personally.

‘Someone Who Would Run for Print’He took a longer journey than his peers did, he has said, bee of the ner turmoil he experienced over whether fact he wanted to be known as the “gay” polician. Also known as “Mayor Pete, ” he is vyg to bee the first openly gay Schar for The New York TimHis rerd of acplishment durg those years the closet is impossible to separate om the isolatn and anxiety he felt as he weighed the st of tellg his fay, iends and nstuents who he really was.

PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON NFIRMED TO US BET

Even liberal Cambridge, where meetg a gay stunt or profsor would have been fairly unremarkable, did not always nurture the sense of nfince that he and many of his gay classmat felt they need to be themselv.

Agosti/Getty ImagWhen members of the Harvard class of 2004 were junrs high school, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay man om Wyomg, was bludgeoned, tied to a fence post and left to die a murr that shocked the natn’s nscience. By the time they shipped off to Cambridge, few would have any gay iends — at least on who were open about . The clost thg gay men and lbians had to marriage was a civil unn, which 2000 was legal exactly one state: Vermont.

Buttigieg as thoughtful and clearly on a trajectory that would brg him succs of some kd, even if dawned on few of them that might mean the Whe thg no one seemed to peg him for was someone wrtlg wh beg gay. “We were fely on oppose ends of the gay spectm — he was closeted and I was lerally the mp drag queen, Miss Harvard 2002, ” said William Lee Adams, who graduated Mr. Buttigieg and his peers left llege and started embarkg on their profsnal liv, the untry was changg signifint ways, joltg their sense of what uld mean to be openly gay and have a high-profile reer.

‘IT GOT REAL GAY REAL QUICK’: PETE BUTTIGIEG’S RISE ELECTRIFI THE GAY MUNY, BUT HE ULD FACE A ROCKY ROAD

Then Congrs would repeal the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on servg openly as gay or lbian.

And the Supreme Court would clare the rights of gay men and lbians to have their relatnships regnized by the state, first 2013 when stck down the Defense of Marriage Act Uned Stat v.

Texas, which stck down bans on timacy between homosexuals on grounds that such laws were an afont to their digny.

PETE BUTTIGIEG DCRIB STGGLE WH COMG OUT AS GAY: ‘YOU ONLY GET ONE LIFE’

Pappas, the ngrsman om New Hampshire, ran his first race for state legislature 2002 as an openly gay ndidate and won.

And after hearg om people who told him how enuragg was to see him as an openly gay man polics, Mr. “I don’t thk I fully appreciated that at first, ” he Gay Is ‘Not the Only Part’ After he graduated, Mr.

” She remembers two puter screens on his he me out, she said that beg gay was never the first thg he wanted people to see when they met him — a veteran, Rhos scholar, polyglot who was first elected mayor of South Bend when he was 29.