Activist Fred Karger was the first openly gay printial ndidate, nng as a Republin 2012, and he even backed Pete Buttigieg durg the Democratic primari this year
Contents:
- IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
- FIRST OPENLY GAY US PRINTIAL CANDIDATE?
- THE LEGACY OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE
- FRED KARGER FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE MORMON CHURCH LGBTQ US ELECTN REPUBLINS POLL
- MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
- FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE LNCH ‘TTH SQUAD 2020’ MPAIGN
- PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
- WOULD BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? MAYBE NOT.
- BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDATE, WAS HATED BY THE LEFT. WHY?
- MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE YOUNG, GAY VETERAN AND MIDWT MAYOR WHO WANTS TO TAKE ON TMP 2020
- THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W AN ELECTN AMERI WAS NOT HARVEY MILK
IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay Democratic ndidate for print of the Uned Stat to mount a major mpaign, emerged as one of the lears the Democratic Party’s early nomatn ntts * first gay presidential candidate *
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.
“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. LGBTQ is an clive signatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and other sexual orientatns.
FIRST OPENLY GAY US PRINTIAL CANDIDATE?
Pete Buttigieg is gag attentn as untry marks the 50th anniversary of a major gay rights event. * first gay presidential candidate *
The same poll showed 40% of Ain Amerin rponnts sayg they are reluctant to vote for a gay man. “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.
THE LEGACY OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE
What will the legacy of the first openly gay printial ndidate be? * first gay presidential candidate *
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. Nearly fifty years ago, police raid a New York Cy bar popular wh homosexuals lled the Stonewall Inn.
The exhib shows how the uprisg helped beg the morn gay rights movement the Uned Stat. She says that, over the years, gay rights activists have fought for the right to hold jobs, serve the ary, speak publicly about beg gay and marry someone of the same sex.
FRED KARGER FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE MORMON CHURCH LGBTQ US ELECTN REPUBLINS POLL
* first gay presidential candidate *
This year, the gay rights movement the Uned Stat may be takg a new step.
If he ns, Pete Buttigieg would be the first openly gay person to mpaign for print of the Uned Stat.
MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
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." * first gay presidential candidate *
A public opn study this year found 68 percent of Amerins would accept a gay printial ndidate. The letters mean Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer or Qutng. But, as Tim Teeman not this opn piece for The Daily Beast, this historic ndidacy received nstant ictn om the tra-LGBTQ bat over the kd of gay man Mayor Pete reprents:.
FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE LNCH ‘TTH SQUAD 2020’ MPAIGN
The first openly gay printial ndidate to mount a major mpaign has attracted an equally pneerg prs rps. * first gay presidential candidate *
“It has been, simply put, exhstg and not a ltle prsg, wh Buttigieg’s ndidacy seen starkly polarized terms: a celebratn of progrs or an dictment of heteronormativy; a gay man standg on the Amerin natnal stage, speakg eloquently about his own stggle for self-acceptance; or jt another privileged whe man able to ‘pass’ whout offerg much to LGBTQ people who are not what he is perceived to be.
His heartfelt nfsn — that he’d stggled well to his 20’s to e out, sayg, “If there was a pill, a pill that I uld take and not be gay anymore, then I would’ve jumped on ” — was sgled out by crics as a dangero admissn of self-loathg. The Atlantic’s Spencer Korhhaber puts like this: A “gayer” ndidate “might be more idsyncratic their style, and more nontatnal toward straight voters, and would boast a yet-bolr polil agenda. “On one end of the Buttigieg reactn spectm is the homophobic voter Iowa who tried to reclaim her ballot after beg told, durg the uc, that the ndidate she jt st a vote for is gay, ” he wr.
PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has ma history as the first openly gay Cabet member U.S. history to be nfirmed by the Senate. * first gay presidential candidate *
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WHAT IS THE LEGACY OF PETE BUTTIGIEG’S HISTORIC RUN AS AMERICA’S FIRST GAY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE?
WOULD BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? MAYBE NOT.
For those who rell when jt enterg a gay bar was dangero, seeg a gay printial ndidate get so far while beg mercilsly pilloried was a disorientg experience * first gay presidential candidate *
While Pete Buttigieg was wily known and celebrated as beg an openly gay printial ndidate 2020, do not mistake him to be the first. Activist Fred Karger was the first openly gay printial ndidate, nng as a Republin 2012. When you mpaigned 2012 as the first openly gay printial ndidate, what was the rponse and do you thk the reactn would have been different today?
I knew that my n for print as a gay Republin the 2012 primari would be an uphill battle, yet newsworthy. In 2010 when I began my mpaign, gay marriage was still a pipe dream and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell remaed the law of the land.
I have always been gay and me out to myself when I was 18 years old and told some close iends my twenti. 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.
BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDATE, WAS HATED BY THE LEFT. WHY?
The first openly gay major printial ndidate, Mr. Buttigieg rose to the primary’s top tier, but was unable to build a broad aln of voters, and lost badly South Carola Saturday. * first gay presidential candidate *
“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, THE YOUNG, GAY VETERAN AND MIDWT MAYOR WHO WANTS TO TAKE ON TMP 2020
Fred Karger, the first openly gay printial ndidate announced Tuday that he is lnchg a “Tth Squad 2020” mpaign after Democratic printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg has been wily mischaracterized as holdg the tle.
Voters and reporters alike wily regnized Buttigieg, a relatively unknown small town mayor who has risen to the top of the crowd primary, as the first openly gay major party printial ndidate. The mpaign says will discs openly the hurdl Karger faced as a gay ndidate. In the years between his and Buttigieg’s mpaigns, same-sex marriage was legalized and public policy and opn on gay rights have changed notably.
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll om March found 54 percent of Amerins would be fortable wh a gay or lbian person nng for print. An addnal 14 percent said that they would be “enthiastic” about a gay or lbian ndidate. A siar 2006 poll found more than 50 percent of Amerins had “rervatns” or were “very unfortable” wh a gay person nng for office.
THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W AN ELECTN AMERI WAS NOT HARVEY MILK
Judd, CNN’s vio producer verg Pete Buttigieg, would later tell me Manchter has at least two gay bars. Among the roughly dozen reporters on the b that day, five were gay—part of a terie of LGBTQ journalists verg the first mastream openly gay printial ndidate. A number of gay natnal rrponnts have foced on Buttigieg, too, a list that clus Josh Lerman, an NBC News natnal polil reporter; Chris Johnson of the Washgton Bla; Jeremy Peters of the New York Tim, and the Washgton Post’s Chelsea Jan and opn wrer Jonathan Capehart.