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

Contents:

• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• OR WHOSE SLOGAN IS “A GAY PRINT 2084”?
• GAY CONSERVATIVE
• "A GAY PRINT 2084"?
• A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY
• AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE
• GAY PRESIDENT IN 2084 1.5" PIN
• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
• OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT

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

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.

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. “Havg so many LGBTQ reporters verg this mpaign has helped facilate a more thoughtful and nuanced nversatn about what means to be gay 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.

OR WHOSE SLOGAN IS “A GAY PRINT 2084”?

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.

As a black and gay journalist, the Post’s Capehart has had an even more sgular wdow to Buttigieg’s mpaign, particularly as he has stggled to w over black voters. In a November 2019 lumn headled “The ugly lie about black voters and Pete Buttigieg, ” Capehart tackled the stereotype that Ain Amerins stat such as South Carola are homophobic. “You are verg somethg that is unprecented, which is a major openly gay printial ndidate havg to ntend wh protters shoutg vulgari about their sexualy at them durg a mpaign event, ” says Lerman, who documented the episo for NBC News.

GAY CONSERVATIVE

“The fact of the matter is that gay rights issu, same-sex marriage, other issu like that, are still matters of public ntroversy our untry, ” says Lerman, who pched his edors on verg Buttigieg around his lnch April after Buttigieg had raised $7 ln the first fundraisg quarter. “Early on, straight embeds were aaid of beg lled homophobic and gay embeds, many of whom look like Pete, gave him overwhelmgly glowg attentn. It’s Gary Hart, ’s Bill Clton and ’s Print Tmp, but I feel like as a gay reporter, I might have an unrstandg of the relatnship to sexualy and sexual orientatn and what has to do wh other aspects of a person’s life.

Havg other gay, queer, LGBTQ reporter iends who you see at ralli or bat or foms or on the b, mostly, mak a ltle more bearable to ver any ndidate, ” Bixby says. Part of the fun of this has jt been ’s shaken up so many of my assumptns on what means to be gay Ameri, and what means to be a gay polician Ameri. Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn.

"A GAY PRINT 2084"?

She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. ”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.

“To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters. “Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30.

A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY

'The "first" part of "first elected" is signifint here- means only one electn n beg que a lot of possible electns where this n occur means even ndnal on the first openly gay US print happeng roughly that length of time, we'd have say 2068, 2072, 2076, 2080, 2084, and 2088 where uld occur and a rultgly low probabily on 2084 more uncertaty about whether this do take that long, and I thk this ought to be <10%.

AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE

@jbhir I thk uld be the send openly gay print if they are nng for electn for the first time, such that the electn will be the one where they are first elected. I gus that uld mean an arbrarily large amount of gay Prints before the first one was elected, if they kept appotg gay Vice Prints and then rigng! "This trope is about homosexual polil nservativ, typilly settgs where homosexualy and nservatism are at least somewhat patible, as they appear fictn.

GAY PRESIDENT IN 2084 1.5" PIN

Drama: The (assumed) tensn between what a gay person should want polilly, and the assumed Conservative posn on gay rights generally, and perhaps gay marriage particular. This impli that all nservativ are anti-gay and that all gays have to believe and support the same polics, even on issu that have nothg to do wh.

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

Satire: When nservativ are mocked and satirized, such as a polician who ns on a "tradnal fay valu" platform and publicly cri homosexualy as praved, spe beg secretly gay and gettg actn on the si. Death Note: Light Yagami is an Ambiguoly Gay Villa Protagonist wh an extremely harsh nservative view of law and orr that don't acunt for socenomic ndns whatsoever. He joked that when, at a young age, he heard about a group of Republins break party l to fight for gay rights, he cid then and there he was gog to be a Republin.

Played for lghs the remake of The Stepford Wiv: A Flamboyant Gay character be Straight Gay through phlebotium-related means and be a ndidate for the Republin party. It gets even funnier when the phlebotum is removed after he gets elected, where he reverts to a Camp Gay pletely out of sync wh Republin posns.

Ma for TV Movie Cizen Cohn is a bpic of high-powered McCarthy-Era nservative lawyer Roy Cohn, a closeted gay who eventually died of AIDS while nyg he had to the end. It's probably worth notg that thor Armistead Mp himself has said that he was a gay nservative for many years before growg disillned wh the Republin Party's attus toward gay people. Pl Redfern Jon Barrett's The Giddy Death of the Gays and the Strange Demise of Straights: he dislik other queers who engage drag and non-monogamy, and is at pots overtly sexist.

OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT

Also om Redfern Jon Barrett is Proud Pk Sky – set the world's first gay state, which is an example of this trope – bisexualy is barely tolerated, while trans and nonbary people are forced to the margs of the cy. This happens an episo of Brothers & Sisters as well; the Gay Conservative this se is set up on a bld date wh a gay liberal and is not amed by his date's anti-nservatism.