Pete Buttigieg Says Gay Prints Have Already Been Elected but Don't Know Which On: 'My Gaydar Don't Even Work That Well the Prent'

Contents:

• A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
• ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• ANOTHER GAY MAN JT ANNOUNCED HE'S RUNNG FOR PRINT OF THE UNED STAT
• PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT
• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS GAY PRINTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ELECTED BUT DON'T KNOW WHICH ON: 'MY GAYDAR DON'T EVEN WORK THAT WELL THE PRENT'
• PETE BUTTIGIEG IS AN OPENLY GAY ARY VETERAN, RHOS SCHOLAR, AND DEMOCRATIC MAYOR A RED STATE. HE'S ALSO NNG FOR PRINT
• WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE YOUNG, GAY VETERAN AND MIDWT MAYOR WHO WANTS TO TAKE ON TMP 2020
• THERE WON’T BE A GAY PRINT 2021. SO WHAT DO BUTTIGIEG’S CAMPAIGN TELL US?
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

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

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.

ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT

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.

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

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.

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.

ANOTHER GAY MAN JT ANNOUNCED HE'S RUNNG FOR PRINT OF THE UNED STAT

Three years later, the Supreme Court led that stat nnot ban same-sex marriage, makg legal natnwi for gay and lbian upl to marry. And durg this time, ndidat who publicly intify as gay, bisexual and transgenr have broken barriers wh their ws. 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.

The first openly gay man to n for print the history of the Uned Stat is receivg a lot of qutns about how to rrectly pronounce his tongue-twistg fay Buttigieg, a Democrat, is currently mayor of the cy of South Bend, Indiana.

PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT

As of last unt, 24 Democrats have dited or have actually entered the race to bee the party’s printial what has aroed the tert of Ameri’s polil ele is that Buttigieg is a proud openly gay man. 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. — Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, officially announced his printial bid Sunday afternoon, hopg to make history as the youngt-ever, and the first-ever openly gay, manr chief.

PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS GAY PRINTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ELECTED BUT DON'T KNOW WHICH ON: 'MY GAYDAR DON'T EVEN WORK THAT WELL THE PRENT'

; was elected as the mayor of South Bend at the age of 29; took a leave of absence durg his first term to serve Afghanistan as a naval telligence officer; me out as gay a lumn his lol newspaper a few months before his re-electn; was re-elected wh nearly 80 percent of the vote; married his partner Chasten a church ceremony that was live-streamed on the Inter; and wrote a bt-sellg Sunday, Buttigieg ma equent mentn of each of the parts of his résumé, but spent particular time addrsg his ary service and his g out a bluntly personal way — and at tim meld stori om each part of his life together pellg yarns that prompted loud applse. ”Mayor Pete Buttigieg announc his printial bid Sunday South Bend, Grs / RtersButtigieg spent the months after his exploratory mtee lnch crisscrossg the untry, troducg himself to crowds the early-votg stat of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carola and Nevada, liverg a highly personal speech about how he wrtled wh his sexual orientatn, and takg shots at Vice Print Mike Pence over his stanc on gay marriage and LGBTQ jos an exceptnally crowd field of ndidat vyg for his party's nomatn.

PETE BUTTIGIEG IS AN OPENLY GAY ARY VETERAN, RHOS SCHOLAR, AND DEMOCRATIC MAYOR A RED STATE. HE'S ALSO NNG FOR PRINT

Pete Buttigieg is no longer the only gay man seekg the hight office Ameri this electn cycle: Mician Casey Spooner announced on Instagram that he's nng for print 2020. "Spooner, 49, is fely a ls nservative figure that Buttigieg: He lls Fischerspooner's 2018 album, Sir, "aggrsively homosexual.

WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N

"I felt like was important to share those stori a way that wasn't sensatnalizg or dimishg or fetishizg, and really jt an hont portra of my experienc as an olr gay man. In June, Spooner told the gay news se Queerty that was important for LGBT people "to kd of reh ourselv on what means to be polilly active, to prott, what means to go agast the stat quo.

"After his printial announcement, Spooner h the mpaign trail and head to Fire Island, a popular gay beach getaway near New York there, he protted what he lled a "prison-themed circu party" on the island, plag the event was appropriate while "black and brown people are systematilly rcerated for prof.

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

And while the new Congrs that took office last year had a rerd 10 openly LGBTQ+ members, no gay man or lbian had ever ma a credible n for the Whe Hoe. It beme obv that his stat as a gay man was more of a pl than a m, a untry where the speed of progrs on the issu has routely been unrtimated, pecially the 21st century.

THERE WON’T BE A GAY PRINT 2021. SO WHAT DO BUTTIGIEG’S CAMPAIGN TELL US?

“Sce 1972, anytime you asked me what might be like the next three years, I’ve always been too psimistic, ” said Barney Frank, the former Massachetts ngrsman who was the send Hoe member to say he was gay, 1987, and the first to marry his same-sex partner, 2012.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

”For olr veterans of the movement like myself, who never expected marriage equaly our own lifetim – much ls a gay man the Whe Hoe – was pecially satisfyg to see this Rhos Scholar, an acplished lguist and ocsnal ncert pianist, charm his way to the top of the printial pack, to see him fish first Iowa and send New Hampshire, ahead of everyone except fied expectatns the bt way imagable to see Chris Wallace terview him on Fox News and never mentn his sexualy. And was thrillg when Rh Limbgh claimed that Ameri was “still not ready to elect a gay guy kissg his hband” – and Buttigieg shot back that his marriage to a man had “never volved me havg to send hh money to a porn star after cheatg on my spoe” mpaign entered the big leagu by raisg more than $80m om nearly a ln small donors.