Would Buttigieg be the first gay print? Maybe not.

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?

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FIRST OPENLY GAY US PRINTIAL CANDIDATE?

“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.

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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. 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.

THE LEGACY OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE

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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.

 FRED KARGER FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE MORMON CHURCH LGBTQ US ELECTN REPUBLINS POLL

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:. “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. ANTI-GAY GOP LAWMAKER VOTED AGAINST CORONAVIRUS BILL BECAUSE IT ‘REDEFINED FAMILY’.

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

WHAT IS THE LEGACY OF PETE BUTTIGIEG’S HISTORIC RUN AS AMERICA’S 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.

FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE LNCH ‘TTH SQUAD 2020’ MPAIGN

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. “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.

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

“I was well to adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay, ” Buttigieg wrote at the time. 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.

WOULD BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? MAYBE NOT.

A siar 2006 poll found more than 50 percent of Amerins had “rervatns” or were “very unfortable” wh a gay person nng for office. Judd, CNN’s vio producer verg Pete Buttigieg, would later tell me Manchter has at least two gay bars.

BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDATE, WAS HATED BY THE LEFT. WHY?

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. For others, ’s tentnal: They put their hands up, fascated by the chance to ver the first openly gay top tier printial ndidate.

Over the past 12 months, om New Hampshire to Iowa, the gay reporters on the Buttigieg beat have wnsed and reported on anti-gay hecklg at stops D Mo, Iowa, and Marshalltown, Iowa. They have argued among themselv about how their lleagu the media have documented Buttigieg’s gayns.

” Smh relled once llg a work about a chyron that read somethg like: “Gay mayor ns for print. “Havg so many LGBTQ reporters verg this mpaign has helped facilate a more thoughtful and nuanced nversatn about what means to be gay 2020.

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

In November, on a three-day b tour of Iowa, I asked Buttigieg what meant to him that the majory of reporters routely verg him were also gay.

He has vised gay bars, he timat, maybe 20 ci, flyover untry plac such as South Bend, Ind., and El Paso, Texas. “I’m always cur to see what a gay voter some of the plac that aren’t the gay mecs is talkg about.

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W AN ELECTN AMERI WAS NOT HARVEY MILK

Buttigieg’s brother--law has said he don’t “support the gay liftyle. ” “We knew to ask if he expected any tensn at the Thanksgivg table om some of his ls gay-iendly -laws, ” Bixby, who was there, says. It’s not about, ‘Oh, Pete is gay and I’m gay, so I empathize wh him.

’ It’s, ‘Pete is gay and I’m gay, so I know that a qutn about this specific experience is gog to produce an tertg or illumatg answer. On the b Frankl, New Hampshire, Del Aguila asked Buttigieg whether he had any gay mentors. It was a ary veteran and person of fah “who jt let me know ’s OK to be a Christian veteran gay Amerin, but I did not grow up wh a lot of out gay people my life, ” he rpond.

“It’s helped facilate really ep, thoughtful nversatns about what was like to be the closet up until his 30s, what was like g out, how affected him as a young man, how affects him today on the mpaign, ” Smh says of the fact that gay reporters are verg the mpaign.