Forty years ago, on Nov. 27, 1978, California's first openly gay elected official was assassated. Harvey Milk champned gay rights and challenged the LGBTQ muny to be out and proud.
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- MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
- PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
- FIRST OPENLY GAY US PRINTIAL CANDIDATE?
- FIRST NGRSNAL RACE BETWEEN TWO GAY NOME MARKS PROGRS FOR LGBTQ NDIDAT
- FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE LNCH ‘TTH SQUAD 2020’ MPAIGN
MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
The first openly gay printial ndidate to mount a major mpaign has attracted an equally pneerg prs rps. * first openly gay candidate *
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PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
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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.
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.
FIRST OPENLY GAY US PRINTIAL CANDIDATE?
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 openly gay candidate *
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.
FIRST NGRSNAL RACE BETWEEN TWO GAY NOME MARKS PROGRS FOR LGBTQ NDIDAT
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 openly gay candidate *
“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. Durg the evengs, he tri to fd a gay bar. 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. 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.
FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE LNCH ‘TTH SQUAD 2020’ MPAIGN
Pete Buttigieg is gag attentn as untry marks the 50th anniversary of a major gay rights event. * first openly gay candidate *
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.