The hight urt the land jt issued three landmark cisns — on affirmative actn, stunt bt relief and relig rights over gay rights — that might've played right to the Democrats' hands.
Contents:
- WHICH DEMOCRATIC U.S. SENATORS HAVE THE GAYT AND LEAST GAY STAFFS?
- MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
- SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
- PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT
- MASSACHETTS SET TO ELECT FIRST FEMALE, GAY ERNOR OVER TMPIST OPPONENT
- BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDATE, WAS HATED BY THE LEFT. WHY?
- IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN
WHICH DEMOCRATIC U.S. SENATORS HAVE THE GAYT AND LEAST GAY STAFFS?
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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.
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." * gay democratic candidate *
A prevly anonymo IRS whistleblower ttifyg about an vtigatn to Hunter Bin me forward Wednday, intifyg as a gay Democrat who wanted to do the “right thg.
No one n predict the future, but the Supreme Court — this very nservative Supreme Court — may have given Democrats a gift for moment the urt renred the fal three cisns of s term — on affirmative actn, stunt bt relief and relig rights over gay rights — my first thought was that not only helps Democrats, but also hurts Republins, at least the near, gave Democrats the opportuny to mpaign on three issu next year’s electn to galvanize voters much the way the Dobbs cisn overturng a natnal right to abortn rallied voters the 2022 three issu are central to the terts of three key mocratic votg blocs: mori, the LGBTQ muny and young people (who have nsistently been ls enthiastic about Print Joe Bin). This year’s grantg of relig exemptns to people who oppose gay marriage, as well as undog affirmative actn and revokg stunt bt relief, may produce a siar only issue Republins seem to have now is their latt a long le of bogeymen: anti-“woke” culture wars. WASHINGTON — Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, announced Wednday that he was formg a printial exploratory mtee — makg him the first openly gay Democrat to seek the office.
Before Buttigieg, the only openly gay person to n for print was Republin Fred Karger.
SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
A prevly anonymo IRS whistleblower ttifyg about an vtigatn to Hunter Bin me forward Wednday, intifyg as a gay Democrat. * gay democratic candidate *
Buttigieg said that while beg a gay ndidate might not make news the astal ci, certaly still did Indiana, where he has anchored his still-young polil reer.
Massachetts is on urse to elect s first woman and first gay ernor after Mra Healey won the Democratic primary on Tuday and a Tmp-backed ndidate, Geoff Diehl, won the Republin ntt to face, the state attorney general, said: “I am honored to receive the Democratic nomatn … Together, we’re gog to w November and build a Massachetts that works for everyone. Swift was succeed by Mt Romney, who beme the 2012 Republin nomee for print and is now a senator om Democratic ndidate for ernor Oregon, Ta Kotek, is also gay. If elected, she and Healey will be the first gay women to ern US stat.
The day after Pete Buttigieg won Iowa, the wrer Mark Harris, who is married to the playwright Tony Khner, tweeted: “Even if you support someone else, as I do, the fact that a gay man n w a state uc for Print is a wele tone.
PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT
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”Iowa has long been somethg of an outlier – 2004 was among the few Republin ntrolled stat that rejected a nstutnal amendment banng same-sex marriage – but the ia that an openly gay man uld w the Democratic uc there took most Amerins by surprise. They wnsed a crimal and adly silence om Washgton, pound by snarky jok about a “gay plague”. In the UK, when I was at llege, gay men were still beg arrted for kissg public.
We had to wa until we were five years olr than our straight unterparts to have those among who n rell a not-too-distant time when gog to a gay bar still felt dangero, watchg a gay printial ndidate get so far while beg mercilsly pilloried has been a disorientg experience. His lack of tractn wh black voters, though the end about the same as for Elizabeth Warren, remaed his achill heel to the whatever crics thoughts of his rerd South Bend, much of the nversatn was lored by lurid characterizatns of the way he chose to prent his gay the mpaign, a Slate lumnist characterized Buttigieg as havg “sturdy ti to straight culture”, whatever that means. Then, last July, the New Republic published, then leted, an say by the novelist Dale Peck which exriated Buttigieg as “not the same kd of gay” as Peck, and by implitn many other gay men.
MASSACHETTS SET TO ELECT FIRST FEMALE, GAY ERNOR OVER TMPIST OPPONENT
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The piece was wily nmned, but also praged what has bee a monplace meme on polil Twter: Buttigieg as a gay Uncle Tom whose succs merely reflects his servily to the stat quo. Although there was wispread outrage when rightwg pund Rh Limbgh claimed that a gay man who kissed his hband onstage uld not w the princy, is, perversely, on the left that this kd of crique has flourished.
Although a whe gay man, Matthew Shepard, remas an endurg symbol of homophobic vlence, the greater challeng faced by people of lor and transgenr women of lor particular now preoccupi the LGBTQ+ movement, and rightly so. In a society where a show such as Morn Fay n be ABC’s longt-nng edy seri, a married gay man – though impossible a snt five years ago – creasgly seems pestrian or even bourgeois.
BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDATE, WAS HATED BY THE LEFT. WHY?
At least 1, 095 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people have n or are still nng for office at all levels this year, up om 1, 006 2020, acrdg to data om the LGBTQ Victory New York, two gay ndidat — Democrat Robert Zimmerman and Republin Gee Santos — are nng to fill the seat vated by Democrat Tom Suozzi New York’s 3rd Congrsnal District. Hoe, acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory this race guaranteed to rult a w for a gay ndidate, the oute of the electn will help terme whether Democrats hang on to their slim majory the Hoe.
IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN
'It was gog to happen sooner of later'The odds of a faceoff between two gay ndidat have gone up recent years, bee there’s been an crease LGBTQ ndidat at all levels of ernment.
“It was gog to happen sooner or later, ” said Donald Hair-Markel, a polil science profsor at the Universy of Kansas and the thor of “Out and Runng: Gay and Lbian Candidat, Electns and Policy Reprentatn. ”Image: Robert Zimmerman (Patrick McMullan via Getty Imag file)Zimmerman slammed Santos for his support of former Print Donald Tmp, who he said advoted a “homophobic, bigoted, ” agenda.