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.
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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MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
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SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
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PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT
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MASSACHETTS SET TO ELECT FIRST FEMALE, GAY ERNOR OVER TMPIST OPPONENT
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BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDATE, WAS HATED BY THE LEFT. WHY?
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IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN
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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.