Meet Pete Buttigieg: A gay mayor, Afghan War vet and lennial who's nng for print

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• IN STIRRG SPEECH, PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AGA FOR LGBTQ AMERINS AS FIRST GAY BET NOMEE
• PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON NFIRMED TO US BET
• PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
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A GRADUATE OF HARVARD UNIVERSY AND AN OXFORD RHOS SCHOLAR, BUTTIGIEG ENLISTED THE U.S. NAVY RERVE AND BEME A LITENANT WHEN HE WAS PLOYED TO AFGHANISTAN 2014. IN APRIL 2019 HE ANNOUNCED HIS NDIDACY THE 2020 U.S. PRINTIAL ELECTN, A BID THAT WOULD HAVE MA HIM THE YOUNGT AND THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT U.S. HISTORY. DPE EMERGG AS A TOP-TIER DEMOCRATIC NDIDATE, BUTTIGIEG SPEND HIS MPAIGN EARLY MARCH 2020.EARLY LIFE AND FAYTHE ONLY CHILD TO PARENTS JOSEPH AND JENNIFER BUTTIGIEG, PETER PL MONTGOMERY BUTTIGIEG WAS BORN ON JANUARY 19, 1982, AND RAISED SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. HIS FATHER IMMIGRATED OM MALTA WHILE LLEGE, AND ALTHOUGH HE STUDIED TO BE A JU PRIT, JOSEPH END UP BEG A LERATURE PROFSOR AT THE UNIVERSY OF NOTRE DAME FOR NEARLY THREE S.BUTTIGIEG'S MOTHER, JENNIFER, IS A LGUIST AND HAILS OM INDIANA. LIKE HER HBAND, JENNIFER TGHT AT THE UNIVERSY OF NOTRE DAME AS A PROFSOR FOR ALMOST THREE S.EDUTNTHE CHILD OF TWO LLEGE PROFSORS, BUTTIGIEG EXCELLED AMILLY. HE WAS HIS HIGH SCHOOL'S VALEDICTORIAN AND ALSO MATRICULATED TO HARVARD UNIVERSY AS A HISTORY AND LERATURE MAJOR. AFTER GRADUATG 2004, HE BEME A RHOS SCHOLAR AT THE UNIVERSY OF OXFORD AND GRADUATED WH A B.A. PHILOSOPHY, POLICS AND ENOMICS.DURG HIS LLEGE YEARS, BUTTIGIEG GOT VOLVED POLICS ON THE STATE LEVEL AND WAS LATER EMPLOYED AS A DIRECTOR BY A NSULTG FIRM WASHGTON, D.C. POST LLEGE, HE WORKED ON JOHN KERRY'S PRINTIAL MPAIGN 2004 AND FOR ANOTHER NSULTG FIRM, MCKSEY & COMPANY, CHIGO. HE CURRENTLY SERV AS AN ADVISOR FOR THE TMAN NATNAL SECURY PROJECT, A PROGRSIVE NATNAL SECURY ANIZATN.BIS HIS NATIVE ENGLISH, BUTTIGIEG HAS FLUENCY SEVEN ADDNAL LANGUAG: ITALIAN, MALTE, SPANISH, DARI PERSIAN, ARABIC, FRENCH AND NORWEIGAN (THE LAST BEG SELF-TGHT).MILARY SERVICEAS A SUPPORTER AND VOLUNTEER OF {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}BARACK OBAMA'S PRINTIAL BID, BUTTIGIEG WAS SPIRED TO ENLIST THE ARY 2007. TWO YEARS LATER, HE BEME A U.S. NAVY RERVE OFFICER, AND WHILE SERVG HIS FIRST TERM AS THE MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND 2014, WAS PLOYED TO KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, WHERE HE TOOK PART THE AFGHANISTAN THREAT FANCE CELL (ATFC), WHICH AIMED TO DISPT THE FANCIAL SYSTEMS OF TERRORIST ANIZATNS.IN HIS 2019 TOBGRAPHY, SHORTT WAY HOME, BUTTIGIEG SCRIBED SERVG DANGERO AREAS KABUL: “IN A RUAL TO BE REPEATED DOZENS OF TIM, I WOULD HEAVE MY ARMORED TORSO TO THE DRIVER’S SEAT OF A LAND CISER, CHAMBER A ROUND MY M4, LOCK THE DOORS AND WAVE A GLOVED GOODBYE TO THE MACEDONIAN GATE GUARD,” BUTTIGIEG WROTE. “MY VEHICLE WOULD CROSS OUTSI THE WIRE AND TO THE BOISTERO AFGHAN CY, ENTERG A WORLD FELY MORE TERTG AND ORDARY AND DANGERO THAN OUR ZONE BEHD THE BLAST WALLS AT ISAF HEADQUARTERS.”MOVED BY HIS OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE, 2015, BUTTIGIEG ME OUT AS A GAY MAN.MAYOR OF SOUTH BENDAFTER WNG THE MAYORAL ELECTN SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, BUTTIGIEG, THEN JT 29 YEARS OLD, TOOK HIS OFFICE JANUARY 2012 AND BEME THE YOUNGT MAYOR TO SERVE A U.S. CY WH OVER 100,000 RINTS.BUTTIGIEG WAS RE-ELECTED 2015, BUT NOT WHOUT A STA ON HIS RERD: DURG HIS FIRST TERM, FERAL THORI UNVERED THAT SOUTH BEND'S POLICE WERE ILLEGALLY WIRETAPPG SOME OF S OFFICERS' PHONE LLS, UNR THE REQUT OF POLICE CHIEF DARRYL BOYKS. THIS PROMPTED BUTTIGIEG TO NOT ONLY MOTE BOYKS BUT TO LATER ASK FOR HIS RIGNATN. BOYKS, WHO WAS THE CY'S FIRST BLACK POLICE CHIEF, EVENTUALLY SUED THE CY, CLAIMG DISCRIMATN (PREV WHE POLICE CHIEFS PURPORTEDLY NDUCTED THE SAME WIRETAPPG POLICY). THIS NTROVERSIAL EVENT, BUTTIGIEG CLAIMS, WAS HIS "FIRST SER MISTAKE AS MAYOR."DPE ACCG SOME NTROVERSI, BUTTIGIEG ALSO HELPED TRANSFORM THE CY. HE CREATED PROGRAMS TO REPAIR AND CLEAN UP ABANDONED BUILDGS, ASSISTED LOW-G HOG AND PROMOTED URBAN VELOPMENT PROJECTS.BUTTIGIEG LEFT OFFICE AFTER PLETG TWO TERMS, GIVG WAY TO HIS FORMER HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATE AND CHIEF OF STAFF, JAM MUELLER.POLIL CAREERBUTTIGIEG LACKED THE NAME REGNN AND SUPPORT OF OTHER LEADG DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT WHEN HE FORMALLY LNCHED HIS PRINTIAL MPAIGN APRIL 2019, BUT HE SOON GAED GROUND THANKS TO HIS OBV TELLECT AND CHARISMA, AND TOWARD THE END OF THE YEAR HE WAS TRAILG ONLY THE BIG THREE OF JOE BIN, BERNIE SANRS AND ELIZABETH WARREN THE POLLS.MEDIRE FOR ALL WHO WANT ITWHILE THE HEALTHRE BATE AMERI NTU TO BE HEATED AND NTROVERSIAL, BUTTIGIEG TOOK A MIDDLE-GROUND APPROACH TO THIS ISSUE. HE SUPPORTED GIVG AMERINS A CHOICE THEIR HEALTHRE BY PROPOSG AN "OPT " OPTN, WHILE SIMULTANEOLY ALLOWG AMERINS WHO PREFER TO STAY WH PRIVATE SURANCE TO HAVE THAT ALTERNATIVE AVAILABLE. BUTTIGIEG'S "MEDIRE FOR ALL WHO WANT IT" NTRASTED WH THE ERNMENT-N SGLE-PAYER PROPOSAL BACKED BY THE MORE PROGRSIVE NDIDAT SUCH AS SANRS AND WARREN.THE DOUGLASS PLANTO ADDRS THE ISSU OF BLACK DISENANCHISEMENT AND REPARATNS, WHICH WERE AMONG THE TOPICS BATED BY 2020 DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT, BUTTIGIEG PROPOSED THE DOUGLASS PLAN. NAMED AFTER THE ABOLNIST AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST FRERICK DOUGLASS, THE PLAN OFFERED IMPROVED HEALTHRE POLICI TO THE BLACK MUNY, GIVG MORE ACCS TO CRED FOR BLACK BS AND ENTREPRENRS, A REVTMENT TN AND SYSTEMATIC CRIMAL JTICE REFORM. WHILE THE DOUGLASS PLAN SPECIFILLY FOCED ON THE NEEDS AND NCERNS OF AIN AMERINS, ALSO SERVED TO AID OTHER DISENANCHISED MORY GROUPS.NATNAL SERVICEBUTTIGIEG CREATED "A NEW CALL TO SERVICE" PLAN THAT ENURAGED HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS TO SERVE NATNAL PROGRAMS LIKE THE PEACE CORPS AND AMERICORPS AND TO ENGAGE SOME OF THE PRSG ISSU OF THE TIM, CLUDG CLIMATE CHANGE, ADDICTN AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSU AND MENTORSHIP. THE U.S. SUPREME COURTIN AN EFFORT TO POLICIZE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, BUTTIGIEG NSIRED THE ALTERNATIVE OF ADDG FIVE MORE JTIC TO THE CURRENT COURT STCTURE. VETTED BY THE LOWER URTS, THE ADDNAL JTIC WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO SERVE AFTER BEG UNANIMOLY VOTED BY THE ORIGAL NE U.S. SUPREME COURT JTIC. BUTTIGIEG ALSO NSIRED TERM LIMS FOR JTIC, SAYG HE WOULD FORM A BIPARTISAN MISSN TO EXPLORE THE BT AND MOST VIABLE OPTNS IF ELECTED PRINT.SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATNON FEBARY 2, 2021, BUTTIGIEG WAS NFIRMED AS PRINT BIN'S SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATN, MAKG HIM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN BET SECRETARY. "I'M HONORED AND HUMBLED BY TODAY'S VOTE THE SENATE—AND READY TO GET TO WORK," HE TWEETED.DROPPG OUTALTHOUGH BUTTIGIEG'S MPAIGN WAS SEEMGLY ON STRONG GROUND WHEN HE WON THE NTROVERSIAL IOWA UC EARLY FEBARY 2020, THE NDIDATE WAS UNABLE TO STA THE MOMENTUM THROUGH SUBSEQUENT PRIMARI. ON MARCH 1, AFTER FISHG WELL BEHD BIN AND SANRS SOUTH CAROLA, BUTTIGIEG ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS DROPPG OUT OF THE PRINTIAL RACE."OUR GOAL HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO UNIFY AMERINS TO FEAT DONALD TMP AND TO W THE ERA FOR OUR VALU," HE TOLD SUPPORTERS. "SO WE MT REGNIZE THAT AT THIS POT THE RACE THE BT WAY TO KEEP FAH WH THOSE GOALS AND IALS IS TO STEP ASI AND TO HELP BRG OUR PARTY AND OUR UNTRY TOGETHER."HBAND AND PERSONAL LIFEBUTTIGIEG MET HIS HBAND, CHASTEN, ON A DATG APP 2015 AND MARRIED HIM THREE YEARS LATER. HAVG EARNED HIS MASTER'S AT DEPL UNIVERSY, CHASTEN BEME A JUNR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER AND TGHT AT MONTSORI AMY INDIANA. AFTER BUTTIGIEG ANNOUNCED HIS PRINTIAL N, CHASTEN RELQUISHED HIS TEACHG POSN TO TRAVEL WH HIM AND SUPPORT HIS NDIDACY.AN EPISPALIAN, BUTTIGIEG WAS UNIQUE AMONG HIS 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL LLEAGU FOR MAKG HIS CHRISTIAN FAH A RNERSTONE OF HIS POLIL INTY. KNOWN FOR LLG OUT RELIG REPUBLINS WHO VOTE AGAST MEASUR THAT UNRME THE NEEDS OF THE POOR, BUTTIGIEG RECEIVED PRAISE OM SOME AND CRICISM OM OTHERS RELIG CIRCL.HE PUBLICLY LAMBASTED VICE PRINT MIKE PENCE, WHO IS AN EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN, FOR BEG A "CHEERLEAR FOR THE PORN-STAR PRINCY" AND CRICIZED NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS WHO SUPPORTED PRINT TMP."BEE MY PARTY'S BEEN SO ALLERGIC TO RELIG LANGUAGE, WE'VE FOTTEN THAT PEOPLE NEED TO BE MA AWARE OF THEIR CHOICE," BUTTIGIEG TOLD CNN. "I'VE GOT TO SPEAK UP, IF ONLY TO POT OUT THE HYPOCRISI OF THOSE NOW POWER. TIME WILL TELL WHETHER THAT'S SMART POLILLY OR NOT."{BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK {FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;MARG:0.9375REM 0 0 0.625REM;PADDG:0 0 0 1.25REM;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:0.9375REM 0;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM{FONT-STYLE:ALIC;FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} LI{PADDG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} LI::MARKER{LOR:#323232;}BIRTH YEAR: 1982BIRTH DATE: JANUARY 19, 1982BIRTH STATE: INDIANABIRTH CY: SOUTH BENDBIRTH COUNTRY: UNED STATBT KNOWN FOR: PETE BUTTIGIEG, A FORMER MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, WAS AMONG THE 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDAT AND IS THE CURRENT SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATN. HE IS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN BET SECRETARY.ASTROLOGIL SIGN: CAPRIRNFACT CHECK
• Y, IT MATTERS THAT PETE BUTTIGIEG IS GAY
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• THE POWERFUL GAY MEANG OF PETE BUTTIGIEG’S PRINTIAL RUNGAME-CHANGERTHE BATE OVER THE KD OF GAY NDIDATE PETE BUTTIGIEG WAS UNFAIRLY OBSCURED HIS BRAVERY, AND HIS PRINTIAL N’S HISTORIC SIGNIFINCE. IT SHOULD NOT UNRME S LEGACY.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED MAR. 02, 2020 11:00PM EST OPNW MCNAMEE/GETTYTHE OPN PIEC, THE SOCIAL MEDIA AS, THE TRA-LGBTQ DISAGREEMENTS OVER PETE BUTTIGIEG AND WHAT HE MEANT AS A GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE HAVE SPANNED THE MONTHS OF HIS HISTORY-MAKG N FOR OFFICE, WHICH END ON SUNDAY NIGHT.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. INSTEAD OF FEELG WHAT WAS—MOMENTO, A REAL MOMENT OF GAY PRI AND POLIL CHANGE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF THE STONEWALL RTS—BUTTIGIEG’S NDIDACY OFTEN FELT LIKE A VUPERATIVELY DISPUTED LGBTQ CULTURAL FLASHPOT, A VEXED RUBIK’S CUBE OF BAT AROUND SEXUALY AND INTY WH NO SOLUTN, AND LOTS OF FLHED CHEEKS AND RAISED VOIC.TO BE CLEAR: WHEN AN OUT-GAY MAN NNG FOR PRINT IS BEG JUDGED FOR NOT BEG “GAY ENOUGH” BY OTHER LGBTQ PEOPLE, THAT IS NOT A SYMBOL OF PROGRS OR EVOLUTN, BUT RATHER AN EXAMPLE OF ONE SET OF BARRIERS OF ENTRY BEG SUBSTUTED FOR ANOTHER. BUTTIGIEG MAY NOT BE YOUR IA OF WHAT A GAY MAN SHOULD BE, BUT IF YOUR NEXT BREATH YOU ARE ARGUG FOR THE POWER OF PLURAL LGBTQ INTI, THEN YOU ARE ARGUG AGAST YOURSELF. BUTTIGIEG IS HIS OWN PERSON, AND A SET OF LGBTQ INTI BOTH UNIQUE TO HIMSELF AND SHARED WH OTHERS. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT PETE BUTTIGIEG FOR WHO HE IS, YOU’RE NOT AS ACCEPTG OF DIVERSY AS YOU CLAIM TO BE.HIS PRINTIAL N IS NOW OVER, BUT THE BUTTIGIEG EFFECT WILL GO ON. IT WILL RIPPLE OUTWARDS. WHETHER YOU, AS A LGBTQ PERSON, LOVED OR DID NOT LOVE PETE BUTTIGIEG, HE—AND OTHER LGBTQ POLIL HISTORY-MAKERS LIKE DANI ROEM VIRGIA—HAVE CHANGED THE PLAYG FIELD FOR LGBTQ NDIDAT G AFTER THEM. BUTTIGIEG SHOWED WAS POSSIBLE FOR A LGTBQ NDIDATE TO GO FOR THE BIG PRIZE A NVCG FASHN, AND HE SHOWED THE BREADTH OF WHAT THAT NDIDATE ULD SAY OR DO—OR BE— THAT SPACE. AS HIS EXAMPLE ENURAG OTHER LGBTQ NDIDAT TO STAND, THE DIVERSY OF THOSE NDIDAT WILL CREASE. BUTTIGIEG IS A LEAR, HISTORY-MAKER, AN AVATAR OF CHANGE—AND AS SUCH OTHERS WILL FOLLOW HIM. THIS IS, ONE HOP, JT A POLIL BEGNG.HE WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W A NOMATG NTT AMERIN HISTORY, AND ON SUNDAY SAID HE HOPED “WE SENT A MSAGE TO EVERY KID OUT THERE WONRG IF WHATEVER MARKS THEM AS DIFFERENT MEANS THAT THEY ARE SOMEHOW STED TO BE LS-THAN.”HE IS RIGHT. THE SIMPLE FACT OF BUTTIGIEG’S VISIBILY AS A GAY MAN IS, OR WAS, IMPORTANT. HERE WAS A GAY MAN TAKG HIS PLACE ON A PRINTIAL NDIDATE BATE STAGE (AND WNG THE IOWA UC) WHERE HIS SEXUALY WAS KNOWN AND OCSNALLY CENTRAL—A SIGNIFINT STORY, BUT NEVER THE WHOLE STORY. HE FACED PREJUDICE, AND DID SO BY TAKG ON THE BIGOTS, AND WNG, THEIR OWN SPACE.LIBERAL CHATTERERS LIKE TO THK THEY ARE BEYOND SUCH THGS AS HOMOPHOBIA. BUT WHERE ARE THEIR SO-OVER-PETE-BEG-GAY VOIC AS THE TMP ADMISTRATN NTU TO ATTACK LGBTQ PEOPLE AND THEIR RIGHTS? ABSENT.BUTTIGIEG DID NOT JT MAKE HISTORY ON PAPER; HERE WAS A GAY MAN ON THE PRINTIAL MPAIGN TRAIL PROUD OF BEG A GAY MAN WH A MUCH-LOVED HBAND, AND EXTREMELY PROUD OF BOTH (ANOTHER SAD REALY THIS SUNDAY EVENG: AMERI WILL NOW NOT HAVE THE WTY AND ELOQUENT CHASTEN BUTTIGIEG AS S FIRST GENTLEMAN). HOW BUTTIGIEG WAS PROUD, WHAT HE SAID ABOUT THIS, AND HOW HE SAID WERE THE SUBSTANCE OF DISAGREEMENT. OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS, I HAVE VARLY READ HE WAS TOO LCULATED, HE SPOKE TOO ROBOTILLY, HE WAS TOO GUARD. WHY DID HE LEAVE SO LONG TO E OUT? WHY WASN’T HE GAY A LOUR, BRIGHTER WAY? WHY DID HE SEEM SO CLOAKED PRIVILEGE?LGBTQ PEOPLE PUBLIC LIFE TREAD TIGHTROP, PRAISED, NMNED, CRICIZED, AND MUTELY OBSERVED. HIS TRACTORS WILL NEVER ACCEPT BUTTIGIEG’S SIGNIFINCE. THEY BELIEVE BUTTIGIEG WAS TOO WHE, TOO ( OLD-SCHOOL, LGUISTIC TERMS) STRAIGHT-ACTG, SOME WAY, TO REALLY UNT AS A GAY MAN OF 2020 MAKG HISTORY. THE SIMPLE REJOR TO THIS: BUTTIGIEG WAS GAY, AND NEVER SAID ANYTHG ELSE.THIS ABSURD LGBTQ PURY TT RANG FALSE WHEN YOU WATCHED HOW BUTTIGIEG SPOKE ABOUT HIS SEXUALY ON THE MPAIGN TRAIL—HONTLY, CLEARLY, AND A WAY NO OTHER PUBLIC FIGURE HAS DONE THE POLIL REALM. NO, BUTTIGIEG IS NOT (IF THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT) THE GAY FOGHORN, REELG OFF DIME-STORE EMPOWERMENT SLOGANS. HE DIDN’T E OUT WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. HE IS RETICENT. HE LOOKS NERDY, AND SOUNDS EVEN NERDIER. HIS ALIGNMENT WH RPORATNS AND THE ARY WAS UNRSTANDABLY ALIENATG TO MANY. HIS FEATG LACK OF NNECTN WH BLACK VOTERS NEVER CHANGED. “HERE’S WHAT PETE BUTTIGIEG DID ON A NATNAL STAGE THAT HIS MANY CRICS HAVE NOT. HE KISSED HIS HBAND. HE SPOKE LOVGLY ABOUT HIS HBAND. HE TALKED ABOUT FAH, A PROVCE TYPILLY OF THOSE WHO SEEK TO PERSECUTE LGBTQ PEOPLE” DID BUTTIGIEG PERFORM SOME WAY PEOPLE FOUND OFF-PUTTG? MAYBE. BUT THAT ISN’T SOMETHG UNKNOWN TO LGBTQ PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY WHEN WE ARE SPAC WHERE WE ARE TYPILLY NOT. AND ALL POLICIANS ARE PERFORMERS TO A LARGE GREE; TV PECIALLY MANDS . MORE PESTRIAN-LY, MAYBE BUTTIGIEG IS A STIFF PERSON, MAYBE HE IS NOT AS EASE AS YOU WOULD WISH HE WAS. IS HE LCULATG? MAYBE. BUT WOULD THAT BE SUCH AN UNUAL QUALY A POLIL POWER-PLAYER? IS NOT A PREREQUISE FOR THE JOB?HERE’S WHAT PETE BUTTIGIEG DID ON A NATNAL STAGE THAT HIS MANY CRICS HAVE NOT GIVEN HIM FULL AND PROPER CRED FOR. HE KISSED AND EMBRACED HIS HBAND, AND SPOKE LOVGLY ABOUT HIS HBAND TOO. HE TALKED ABOUT FAH, A PROVCE TYPILLY OF THOSE WHO SEEK TO PERSECUTE LGBTQ PEOPLE. HE TALKED ABOUT G OUT.HE TOLD A YOUNG LGBTQ PERSON, 9-YEAR-OLD ZACHARY RO, HOW BRAVE HE WAS TO E OUT. HE DIDN’T PRUME TO GIVE ZACHARY THE ACCEPTED, SYPY “ GETS BETTER” GAY LURGY. HE JT SPOKE TO HIM EVENLY AND RPONSIBLY, WHOUT PRUMPTN OR BEG PATRONIZG. AN ADULT GAY MAN SHARED A STAGE WH A GAY KID, AND GENTLY TRIED TO ADVISE HIM AS AN EQUAL. PASSG STRENGTH AND URAGE BETWEEN GENERATNS IS ONE OF THE GREAT LGBTQ ACTS OF LOVE AND SUPPORT. NONE OF THIS SHOULD BE RADIL, FOR SURE. “IT SHOULDN’T MATTER,” PEOPLE EMAIL ME ABOUT BUTTIGIEG BEG GAY AND BEG OUT. “WHO R?” NO, BEG AN OUT-LGBTQ PERSON NNG FOR PRINT SHOULDN’T MATTER. BUT STILL, DO. I WONR IF ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO DON’T RE ABOUT PETE BUTTIGIEG BEG GAY ARE ALSO EXTREMELY BOTHERED BY THE SUPREME COURT CURRENTLY NSIRG IF SHOULD BE OK TO FIRE SOMEONE BEE THEY ARE LGBTQ; AND SOON TO NSIR WHETHER “RELIG EEDOM” N BE ED AS MIKE PENCE AND HIS ILK WOULD LIKE—AS AN ALL-PURPOSE WEAPON AGAST LGBTQ PEOPLE WANTG TO ADOPT OR FOSTER CHILDREN, AND A WHOLE LOT MORE. THIS IS WHY PETE BUTTIGIEG’S NDIDACY MATTERS. BEE IS HAPPENG A UNTRY NOT OK WH S LGBTQ PEOPLE, AND THEIR PRENTLY IMPERILED EQUALI AND RIGHTS. IF YOU ARE SO FORTABLE WH PETE BUTTIGIEG, THEN LGBTQ AMERINS ULD REALLY DO WH YOUR HELP FIGHTG THE ONSLGHT OF BIGOTRY THE TMP ADMISTRATN IS VISG UPON . BUTTIGIEG FACED THE KD OF HOMOPHOBIA THAT LIBERALS LIKE TO TELL THEMSELV HAS BEEN EXTGUISHED. IT HASN’T. IT WAS THERE THE NIGHT OF THE IOWA UC, WHEN A WOMAN WAS FILMED REVEALG SHE WOULD NOT VOTE FOR HIM—UP UNTIL THEN, HER NDIDATE OF CHOICE—JT BEE HE WAS GAY. IT ALL SPEWED OUT PREDICTABLY: BIBLE THIS, S THAT.THEN ME RH LIMBGH, WH A PRELU OR WARNG OF WHAT WOULD E BUTTIGIEG’S WAY IF HE MA THROUGH THE PRIMARY FIRE AND BEME TMP’S OPPONENT THIS NOVEMBER. LIMBGH IS A HOMOPHOBE THE CLASSIC VE, TELLGLY FOCED (LIKE ERICK ERICKSON) ON GAY PEOPLE SEXUALLY, WHAT WE DO TO PHYSILLY EXPRS OUR AFFECTN FOR ONE ANOTHER.LIMBGH DID A VILE B OF GASLIGHTG: OH, AMERI WOULDN’T LIKE THEIR PRINT KISSG ANOTHER GUY, HE SAID. THEN HE JT LET HIS POISON PILL MARATE THE PUBLIC SQUARE. AND THERE WAS, THE KEY TO THE HOMOPHOBIA THE REPUBLINS RELY ON TO STROY NDIDAT LIKE BUTTIGIEG—TO SIMPLY HOPE VOTERS N BE GALVANIZED BY DISFORT AND DISGT. “THAT IS WHAT PETE BUTTIGIEG FACED EVERY DAY OVERTLY AND VERTLY, THAT OLD, NFECTED DISGT ABOUT GAY PEOPLE DO BED, LONG-BAKED TO THE PUBLIC DISURSE OVER LGBTQ PEOPLE, AND THE LAWS CRAFTED AGAST ” IT’S THE OLST WAY TO STOKE HATRED, AND LI AT THE ROOTS OF ALL THE ANTI-LGBTQ POLICI THAT OFFICIALS TRY TO SCRIBE STATUTE: “WE DON’T LIKE WHAT YOU DO BED. YOU’RE UNNATURAL.” EVERYTHG SAID TO LGBTQ KIDS AS THEY TRY TO SURVIVE SCHOOL, AS THEY TRY TO AVOID THE QUEER-BASHER’S FISTS, IS WHAT POLICIANS AND PUNDS E TO STOKE THEIR HATRED AND PERPETUATE EQUALY.THAT IS WHAT PETE BUTTIGIEG FACED EVERY DAY OVERTLY AND VERTLY, THAT OLD, NFECTED DISGT ABOUT SAME-SEX SEX, LONG-BAKED TO THE PUBLIC DISURSE OVER LGBTQ PEOPLE AND THE LAWS CRAFTED AGAST . AND STILL, SPE NNG THIS GNTLET, BUTTIGIEG WASN’T “GAY ENOUGH” FOR SOME. (COME ON, HE EVEN GOT SNIPE-Y WH AMY KLOBUCHAR. IT WAS GREAT TV, AND PRETTY DARN GAY.)MOST POWERFULLY PERHAPS (AND AGA, SOMETHG HE HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN ENOUGH CRED FOR), BUTTIGIEG ALSO SPOKE ABOUT HIS FAH, AND NOT ONLY THAT HE POSED HIS FAH AND S SIGNIFINCE SQUARE AGAST THE FAH THAT PENCE AND HIS EVANGELIL PEERS VOKE WHEN THEY DISCRIMATE AGAST LGBTQ PEOPLE. BUTTIGIEG MA CLEAR HIS GOD WAS JT AS IMPORTANT AS THE ONE THE NSERVATIVE RIGHT WG HAVE -OPTED AS THEIR BATTERG RAM AGAST LGBTQ PEOPLE. “MY MARRIAGE TO CHASTEN HAS MA ME A BETTER MAN. AND Y, MR. VICE PRINT, HAS MOVED ME CLOSER TO GOD," BUTTIGIEG SAID. “SPEAKG FOR MYSELF, I N TELL YOU THAT IF ME BEG GAY WAS A CHOICE, WAS A CHOICE THAT WAS MA FAR, FAR ABOVE MY PAY GRA. AND THAT’S THE THG I WISH THE MIKE PENC OF THE WORLD WOULD UNRSTAND. IF YOU’VE GOT A PROBLEM WH WHO I AM, YOUR PROBLEM IS NOT WH ME. YOUR QUARREL, SIR, IS WH MY CREATOR.”BUTTIGIEG OVER AND OVER AGA SISTED ON OWNG HIS FAH, HAVG PRI HIS FAH, AND BRAVELY NONTED HIS OPPONENTS ON TERRORY THEY VET AS THEIR OWN. AND HE DID WH W AND MISCHIEF, AS WHEN TMP HAD REMEND LIMBGH NOT APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT HE HAD SAID ABOUT BUTTIGIEG. “THE IA OF THE LIK OF RH LIMBGH OR DONALD TMP LECTURG ANYBODY ON FAY VALU—I MEAN, SORRY BUT, ONE THG ABOUT MY MARRIAGE IS ’S NEVER VOLVED ME HAVG TO SEND HH MONEY TO A PORN STAR AFTER CHEATG ON MY SPOE WH HIM OR HER” “THE IA OF THE LIK OF RH LIMBGH OR DONALD TMP LECTURG ANYBODY ON FAY VALU—I MEAN, SORRY BUT, ONE THG ABOUT MY MARRIAGE IS ’S NEVER VOLVED ME HAVG TO SEND HH MONEY TO A PORN STAR AFTER CHEATG ON MY SPOE WH HIM OR HER,” BUTTIGIEG SAID. “SO THEY WANNA BATE FAY VALU? LET’S BATE FAY VALU. I’M READY.”HERE AGA, BUTTIGIEG HEAD TO HOSTILE TERRORY—THE “FAY VALU” RHETORIC ED TO HURT LGBTQ PEOPLE SO MANY WAYS FOR SO MANY YEARS. BUTTIGIEG SWIPED THE FLAMG TORCH AND SIMPLY WAVED BACK THE BIGOTS’ FAC.HERE, JT AS HE HAS DONE WH THE ISSUE OF FAH, BUTTIGIEG SAID A FIRM “NO” AND REAMED THEIR WORDS TO MOCK THEIR HYPOCRISY BUT ALSO TO SHOW THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE HAVE OWNERSHIP AND PRENCE THE “FAY” SPACE TOO. HE WAS DOG SOMETHG EXCEPTNALLY QUEER AND RADIL. “HE HAS SHOWN THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N OCCUPY SPAC THAT THOSE WHO DISCRIMATE AGAST HAVE LONG SOUGHT TO EXCLU OM. HE HAS SHOWN THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N DO THIS WHILE KISSG THEIR PARTNERS, BY BEG OUT” BUTTIGIEG’S REER, HIS PRENCE THE PUBLIC EYE, IS FAR OM OVER, AND AS THIS CHAPTER ENDS HE HAS SET A VALUABLE EXAMPLE. IN A UNTRY CURRENTLY UNR THE NTROL OF A VILENTLY ANTI-LGBTQ ADMISTRATN, BUTTIGIEG HAS SHOWN NOT JT THAT AN LGBTQ PERSON N N FOR PRINT. HE HAS SHOWN THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N OCCUPY SPAC THAT THOSE WHO DISCRIMATE AGAST HAVE LONG SOUGHT TO EXCLU OM. HE HAS SHOWN THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N DO THIS WHILE KISSG THEIR PARTNERS, WHILE BEG OUT, AND WHILE SKEWERG BIGOTRY SUCH A WAY THAT LEAV THE BIGOTS AMMUNN-LS. NOT GAY ENOUGH? OH, PETE BUTTIGIEG WAS WAY-GAY, AS HIS LEGACY WILL HOPEFULLY SHOW. TIM TEEMAN

IN STIRRG SPEECH, PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AGA FOR LGBTQ AMERINS AS FIRST GAY BET NOMEE

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“This will be a historic tone for LGBTQ visibily, ” said GLAAD print/CEO Sarah Kate Ellis a statement posted on Twter, notg that should the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor be nfirmed by the Senate, he would bee the first openly gay Cabet secretary U. “If you’re not at the table, you’re probably on the menu, ” Jenngs said an terview, notg that gay Amerins died by the tens of thoands whout high-level reprentatn durg the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. ”Meanwhile, the Log Cab Republins, an anizatn reprentg LGBT nservativ, were quick to note that Buttigieg would not be the first openly gay man to serve a Cabet-level role.

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A GRADUATE OF HARVARD UNIVERSY AND AN OXFORD RHOS SCHOLAR, BUTTIGIEG ENLISTED THE U.S. NAVY RERVE AND BEME A LITENANT WHEN HE WAS PLOYED TO AFGHANISTAN 2014. IN APRIL 2019 HE ANNOUNCED HIS NDIDACY THE 2020 U.S. PRINTIAL ELECTN, A BID THAT WOULD HAVE MA HIM THE YOUNGT AND THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PRINT U.S. HISTORY. DPE EMERGG AS A TOP-TIER DEMOCRATIC NDIDATE, BUTTIGIEG SPEND HIS MPAIGN EARLY MARCH 2020.EARLY LIFE AND FAYTHE ONLY CHILD TO PARENTS JOSEPH AND JENNIFER BUTTIGIEG, PETER PL MONTGOMERY BUTTIGIEG WAS BORN ON JANUARY 19, 1982, AND RAISED SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. HIS FATHER IMMIGRATED OM MALTA WHILE LLEGE, AND ALTHOUGH HE STUDIED TO BE A JU PRIT, JOSEPH END UP BEG A LERATURE PROFSOR AT THE UNIVERSY OF NOTRE DAME FOR NEARLY THREE S.BUTTIGIEG'S MOTHER, JENNIFER, IS A LGUIST AND HAILS OM INDIANA. LIKE HER HBAND, JENNIFER TGHT AT THE UNIVERSY OF NOTRE DAME AS A PROFSOR FOR ALMOST THREE S.EDUTNTHE CHILD OF TWO LLEGE PROFSORS, BUTTIGIEG EXCELLED AMILLY. HE WAS HIS HIGH SCHOOL'S VALEDICTORIAN AND ALSO MATRICULATED TO HARVARD UNIVERSY AS A HISTORY AND LERATURE MAJOR. AFTER GRADUATG 2004, HE BEME A RHOS SCHOLAR AT THE UNIVERSY OF OXFORD AND GRADUATED WH A B.A. PHILOSOPHY, POLICS AND ENOMICS.DURG HIS LLEGE YEARS, BUTTIGIEG GOT VOLVED POLICS ON THE STATE LEVEL AND WAS LATER EMPLOYED AS A DIRECTOR BY A NSULTG FIRM WASHGTON, D.C. POST LLEGE, HE WORKED ON JOHN KERRY'S PRINTIAL MPAIGN 2004 AND FOR ANOTHER NSULTG FIRM, MCKSEY & COMPANY, CHIGO. HE CURRENTLY SERV AS AN ADVISOR FOR THE TMAN NATNAL SECURY PROJECT, A PROGRSIVE NATNAL SECURY ANIZATN.BIS HIS NATIVE ENGLISH, BUTTIGIEG HAS FLUENCY SEVEN ADDNAL LANGUAG: ITALIAN, MALTE, SPANISH, DARI PERSIAN, ARABIC, FRENCH AND NORWEIGAN (THE LAST BEG SELF-TGHT).MILARY SERVICEAS A SUPPORTER AND VOLUNTEER OF {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}BARACK OBAMA'S PRINTIAL BID, BUTTIGIEG WAS SPIRED TO ENLIST THE ARY 2007. TWO YEARS LATER, HE BEME A U.S. NAVY RERVE OFFICER, AND WHILE SERVG HIS FIRST TERM AS THE MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND 2014, WAS PLOYED TO KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, WHERE HE TOOK PART THE AFGHANISTAN THREAT FANCE CELL (ATFC), WHICH AIMED TO DISPT THE FANCIAL SYSTEMS OF TERRORIST ANIZATNS.IN HIS 2019 TOBGRAPHY, SHORTT WAY HOME, BUTTIGIEG SCRIBED SERVG DANGERO AREAS KABUL: “IN A RUAL TO BE REPEATED DOZENS OF TIM, I WOULD HEAVE MY ARMORED TORSO TO THE DRIVER’S SEAT OF A LAND CISER, CHAMBER A ROUND MY M4, LOCK THE DOORS AND WAVE A GLOVED GOODBYE TO THE MACEDONIAN GATE GUARD,” BUTTIGIEG WROTE. “MY VEHICLE WOULD CROSS OUTSI THE WIRE AND TO THE BOISTERO AFGHAN CY, ENTERG A WORLD FELY MORE TERTG AND ORDARY AND DANGERO THAN OUR ZONE BEHD THE BLAST WALLS AT ISAF HEADQUARTERS.”MOVED BY HIS OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE, 2015, BUTTIGIEG ME OUT AS A GAY MAN.MAYOR OF SOUTH BENDAFTER WNG THE MAYORAL ELECTN SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, BUTTIGIEG, THEN JT 29 YEARS OLD, TOOK HIS OFFICE JANUARY 2012 AND BEME THE YOUNGT MAYOR TO SERVE A U.S. CY WH OVER 100,000 RINTS.BUTTIGIEG WAS RE-ELECTED 2015, BUT NOT WHOUT A STA ON HIS RERD: DURG HIS FIRST TERM, FERAL THORI UNVERED THAT SOUTH BEND'S POLICE WERE ILLEGALLY WIRETAPPG SOME OF S OFFICERS' PHONE LLS, UNR THE REQUT OF POLICE CHIEF DARRYL BOYKS. THIS PROMPTED BUTTIGIEG TO NOT ONLY MOTE BOYKS BUT TO LATER ASK FOR HIS RIGNATN. BOYKS, WHO WAS THE CY'S FIRST BLACK POLICE CHIEF, EVENTUALLY SUED THE CY, CLAIMG DISCRIMATN (PREV WHE POLICE CHIEFS PURPORTEDLY NDUCTED THE SAME WIRETAPPG POLICY). THIS NTROVERSIAL EVENT, BUTTIGIEG CLAIMS, WAS HIS "FIRST SER MISTAKE AS MAYOR."DPE ACCG SOME NTROVERSI, BUTTIGIEG ALSO HELPED TRANSFORM THE CY. HE CREATED PROGRAMS TO REPAIR AND CLEAN UP ABANDONED BUILDGS, ASSISTED LOW-G HOG AND PROMOTED URBAN VELOPMENT PROJECTS.BUTTIGIEG LEFT OFFICE AFTER PLETG TWO TERMS, GIVG WAY TO HIS FORMER HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATE AND CHIEF OF STAFF, JAM MUELLER.POLIL CAREERBUTTIGIEG LACKED THE NAME REGNN AND SUPPORT OF OTHER LEADG DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT WHEN HE FORMALLY LNCHED HIS PRINTIAL MPAIGN APRIL 2019, BUT HE SOON GAED GROUND THANKS TO HIS OBV TELLECT AND CHARISMA, AND TOWARD THE END OF THE YEAR HE WAS TRAILG ONLY THE BIG THREE OF JOE BIN, BERNIE SANRS AND ELIZABETH WARREN THE POLLS.MEDIRE FOR ALL WHO WANT ITWHILE THE HEALTHRE BATE AMERI NTU TO BE HEATED AND NTROVERSIAL, BUTTIGIEG TOOK A MIDDLE-GROUND APPROACH TO THIS ISSUE. HE SUPPORTED GIVG AMERINS A CHOICE THEIR HEALTHRE BY PROPOSG AN "OPT " OPTN, WHILE SIMULTANEOLY ALLOWG AMERINS WHO PREFER TO STAY WH PRIVATE SURANCE TO HAVE THAT ALTERNATIVE AVAILABLE. BUTTIGIEG'S "MEDIRE FOR ALL WHO WANT IT" NTRASTED WH THE ERNMENT-N SGLE-PAYER PROPOSAL BACKED BY THE MORE PROGRSIVE NDIDAT SUCH AS SANRS AND WARREN.THE DOUGLASS PLANTO ADDRS THE ISSU OF BLACK DISENANCHISEMENT AND REPARATNS, WHICH WERE AMONG THE TOPICS BATED BY 2020 DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT, BUTTIGIEG PROPOSED THE DOUGLASS PLAN. NAMED AFTER THE ABOLNIST AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST FRERICK DOUGLASS, THE PLAN OFFERED IMPROVED HEALTHRE POLICI TO THE BLACK MUNY, GIVG MORE ACCS TO CRED FOR BLACK BS AND ENTREPRENRS, A REVTMENT TN AND SYSTEMATIC CRIMAL JTICE REFORM. WHILE THE DOUGLASS PLAN SPECIFILLY FOCED ON THE NEEDS AND NCERNS OF AIN AMERINS, ALSO SERVED TO AID OTHER DISENANCHISED MORY GROUPS.NATNAL SERVICEBUTTIGIEG CREATED "A NEW CALL TO SERVICE" PLAN THAT ENURAGED HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS TO SERVE NATNAL PROGRAMS LIKE THE PEACE CORPS AND AMERICORPS AND TO ENGAGE SOME OF THE PRSG ISSU OF THE TIM, CLUDG CLIMATE CHANGE, ADDICTN AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSU AND MENTORSHIP. THE U.S. SUPREME COURTIN AN EFFORT TO POLICIZE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, BUTTIGIEG NSIRED THE ALTERNATIVE OF ADDG FIVE MORE JTIC TO THE CURRENT COURT STCTURE. VETTED BY THE LOWER URTS, THE ADDNAL JTIC WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO SERVE AFTER BEG UNANIMOLY VOTED BY THE ORIGAL NE U.S. SUPREME COURT JTIC. BUTTIGIEG ALSO NSIRED TERM LIMS FOR JTIC, SAYG HE WOULD FORM A BIPARTISAN MISSN TO EXPLORE THE BT AND MOST VIABLE OPTNS IF ELECTED PRINT.SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATNON FEBARY 2, 2021, BUTTIGIEG WAS NFIRMED AS PRINT BIN'S SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATN, MAKG HIM THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN BET SECRETARY. "I'M HONORED AND HUMBLED BY TODAY'S VOTE THE SENATE—AND READY TO GET TO WORK," HE TWEETED.DROPPG OUTALTHOUGH BUTTIGIEG'S MPAIGN WAS SEEMGLY ON STRONG GROUND WHEN HE WON THE NTROVERSIAL IOWA UC EARLY FEBARY 2020, THE NDIDATE WAS UNABLE TO STA THE MOMENTUM THROUGH SUBSEQUENT PRIMARI. ON MARCH 1, AFTER FISHG WELL BEHD BIN AND SANRS SOUTH CAROLA, BUTTIGIEG ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS DROPPG OUT OF THE PRINTIAL RACE."OUR GOAL HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO UNIFY AMERINS TO FEAT DONALD TMP AND TO W THE ERA FOR OUR VALU," HE TOLD SUPPORTERS. "SO WE MT REGNIZE THAT AT THIS POT THE RACE THE BT WAY TO KEEP FAH WH THOSE GOALS AND IALS IS TO STEP ASI AND TO HELP BRG OUR PARTY AND OUR UNTRY TOGETHER."HBAND AND PERSONAL LIFEBUTTIGIEG MET HIS HBAND, CHASTEN, ON A DATG APP 2015 AND MARRIED HIM THREE YEARS LATER. HAVG EARNED HIS MASTER'S AT DEPL UNIVERSY, CHASTEN BEME A JUNR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER AND TGHT AT MONTSORI AMY INDIANA. AFTER BUTTIGIEG ANNOUNCED HIS PRINTIAL N, CHASTEN RELQUISHED HIS TEACHG POSN TO TRAVEL WH HIM AND SUPPORT HIS NDIDACY.AN EPISPALIAN, BUTTIGIEG WAS UNIQUE AMONG HIS 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL LLEAGU FOR MAKG HIS CHRISTIAN FAH A RNERSTONE OF HIS POLIL INTY. KNOWN FOR LLG OUT RELIG REPUBLINS WHO VOTE AGAST MEASUR THAT UNRME THE NEEDS OF THE POOR, BUTTIGIEG RECEIVED PRAISE OM SOME AND CRICISM OM OTHERS RELIG CIRCL.HE PUBLICLY LAMBASTED VICE PRINT MIKE PENCE, WHO IS AN EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN, FOR BEG A "CHEERLEAR FOR THE PORN-STAR PRINCY" AND CRICIZED NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS WHO SUPPORTED PRINT TMP."BEE MY PARTY'S BEEN SO ALLERGIC TO RELIG LANGUAGE, WE'VE FOTTEN THAT PEOPLE NEED TO BE MA AWARE OF THEIR CHOICE," BUTTIGIEG TOLD CNN. "I'VE GOT TO SPEAK UP, IF ONLY TO POT OUT THE HYPOCRISI OF THOSE NOW POWER. 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THE POWERFUL GAY MEANG OF PETE BUTTIGIEG’S PRINTIAL RUNGAME-CHANGERTHE BATE OVER THE KD OF GAY NDIDATE PETE BUTTIGIEG WAS UNFAIRLY OBSCURED HIS BRAVERY, AND HIS PRINTIAL N’S HISTORIC SIGNIFINCE. IT SHOULD NOT UNRME S LEGACY.TIM TEEMANSENR EDOR AND WRERUPDATED MAR. 02, 2020 11:00PM EST OPNW MCNAMEE/GETTYTHE OPN PIEC, THE SOCIAL MEDIA AS, THE TRA-LGBTQ DISAGREEMENTS OVER PETE BUTTIGIEG AND WHAT HE MEANT AS A GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE HAVE SPANNED THE MONTHS OF HIS HISTORY-MAKG N FOR OFFICE, WHICH END ON SUNDAY NIGHT.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. INSTEAD OF FEELG WHAT WAS—MOMENTO, A REAL MOMENT OF GAY PRI AND POLIL CHANGE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF THE STONEWALL RTS—BUTTIGIEG’S NDIDACY OFTEN FELT LIKE A VUPERATIVELY DISPUTED LGBTQ CULTURAL FLASHPOT, A VEXED RUBIK’S CUBE OF BAT AROUND SEXUALY AND INTY WH NO SOLUTN, AND LOTS OF FLHED CHEEKS AND RAISED VOIC.TO BE CLEAR: WHEN AN OUT-GAY MAN NNG FOR PRINT IS BEG JUDGED FOR NOT BEG “GAY ENOUGH” BY OTHER LGBTQ PEOPLE, THAT IS NOT A SYMBOL OF PROGRS OR EVOLUTN, BUT RATHER AN EXAMPLE OF ONE SET OF BARRIERS OF ENTRY BEG SUBSTUTED FOR ANOTHER. BUTTIGIEG MAY NOT BE YOUR IA OF WHAT A GAY MAN SHOULD BE, BUT IF YOUR NEXT BREATH YOU ARE ARGUG FOR THE POWER OF PLURAL LGBTQ INTI, THEN YOU ARE ARGUG AGAST YOURSELF. BUTTIGIEG IS HIS OWN PERSON, AND A SET OF LGBTQ INTI BOTH UNIQUE TO HIMSELF AND SHARED WH OTHERS. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT PETE BUTTIGIEG FOR WHO HE IS, YOU’RE NOT AS ACCEPTG OF DIVERSY AS YOU CLAIM TO BE.HIS PRINTIAL N IS NOW OVER, BUT THE BUTTIGIEG EFFECT WILL GO ON. IT WILL RIPPLE OUTWARDS. WHETHER YOU, AS A LGBTQ PERSON, LOVED OR DID NOT LOVE PETE BUTTIGIEG, HE—AND OTHER LGBTQ POLIL HISTORY-MAKERS LIKE DANI ROEM VIRGIA—HAVE CHANGED THE PLAYG FIELD FOR LGBTQ NDIDAT G AFTER THEM. BUTTIGIEG SHOWED WAS POSSIBLE FOR A LGTBQ NDIDATE TO GO FOR THE BIG PRIZE A NVCG FASHN, AND HE SHOWED THE BREADTH OF WHAT THAT NDIDATE ULD SAY OR DO—OR BE— THAT SPACE. AS HIS EXAMPLE ENURAG OTHER LGBTQ NDIDAT TO STAND, THE DIVERSY OF THOSE NDIDAT WILL CREASE. BUTTIGIEG IS A LEAR, HISTORY-MAKER, AN AVATAR OF CHANGE—AND AS SUCH OTHERS WILL FOLLOW HIM. THIS IS, ONE HOP, JT A POLIL BEGNG.HE WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON TO W A NOMATG NTT AMERIN HISTORY, AND ON SUNDAY SAID HE HOPED “WE SENT A MSAGE TO EVERY KID OUT THERE WONRG IF WHATEVER MARKS THEM AS DIFFERENT MEANS THAT THEY ARE SOMEHOW STED TO BE LS-THAN.”HE IS RIGHT. THE SIMPLE FACT OF BUTTIGIEG’S VISIBILY AS A GAY MAN IS, OR WAS, IMPORTANT. HERE WAS A GAY MAN TAKG HIS PLACE ON A PRINTIAL NDIDATE BATE STAGE (AND WNG THE IOWA UC) WHERE HIS SEXUALY WAS KNOWN AND OCSNALLY CENTRAL—A SIGNIFINT STORY, BUT NEVER THE WHOLE STORY. HE FACED PREJUDICE, AND DID SO BY TAKG ON THE BIGOTS, AND WNG, THEIR OWN SPACE.LIBERAL CHATTERERS LIKE TO THK THEY ARE BEYOND SUCH THGS AS HOMOPHOBIA. BUT WHERE ARE THEIR SO-OVER-PETE-BEG-GAY VOIC AS THE TMP ADMISTRATN NTU TO ATTACK LGBTQ PEOPLE AND THEIR RIGHTS? ABSENT.BUTTIGIEG DID NOT JT MAKE HISTORY ON PAPER; HERE WAS A GAY MAN ON THE PRINTIAL MPAIGN TRAIL PROUD OF BEG A GAY MAN WH A MUCH-LOVED HBAND, AND EXTREMELY PROUD OF BOTH (ANOTHER SAD REALY THIS SUNDAY EVENG: AMERI WILL NOW NOT HAVE THE WTY AND ELOQUENT CHASTEN BUTTIGIEG AS S FIRST GENTLEMAN). HOW BUTTIGIEG WAS PROUD, WHAT HE SAID ABOUT THIS, AND HOW HE SAID WERE THE SUBSTANCE OF DISAGREEMENT. OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS, I HAVE VARLY READ HE WAS TOO LCULATED, HE SPOKE TOO ROBOTILLY, HE WAS TOO GUARD. WHY DID HE LEAVE SO LONG TO E OUT? WHY WASN’T HE GAY A LOUR, BRIGHTER WAY? WHY DID HE SEEM SO CLOAKED PRIVILEGE?LGBTQ PEOPLE PUBLIC LIFE TREAD TIGHTROP, PRAISED, NMNED, CRICIZED, AND MUTELY OBSERVED. HIS TRACTORS WILL NEVER ACCEPT BUTTIGIEG’S SIGNIFINCE. THEY BELIEVE BUTTIGIEG WAS TOO WHE, TOO ( OLD-SCHOOL, LGUISTIC TERMS) STRAIGHT-ACTG, SOME WAY, TO REALLY UNT AS A GAY MAN OF 2020 MAKG HISTORY. THE SIMPLE REJOR TO THIS: BUTTIGIEG WAS GAY, AND NEVER SAID ANYTHG ELSE.THIS ABSURD LGBTQ PURY TT RANG FALSE WHEN YOU WATCHED HOW BUTTIGIEG SPOKE ABOUT HIS SEXUALY ON THE MPAIGN TRAIL—HONTLY, CLEARLY, AND A WAY NO OTHER PUBLIC FIGURE HAS DONE THE POLIL REALM. NO, BUTTIGIEG IS NOT (IF THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT) THE GAY FOGHORN, REELG OFF DIME-STORE EMPOWERMENT SLOGANS. HE DIDN’T E OUT WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. HE IS RETICENT. HE LOOKS NERDY, AND SOUNDS EVEN NERDIER. HIS ALIGNMENT WH RPORATNS AND THE ARY WAS UNRSTANDABLY ALIENATG TO MANY. HIS FEATG LACK OF NNECTN WH BLACK VOTERS NEVER CHANGED. “HERE’S WHAT PETE BUTTIGIEG DID ON A NATNAL STAGE THAT HIS MANY CRICS HAVE NOT. HE KISSED HIS HBAND. HE SPOKE LOVGLY ABOUT HIS HBAND. HE TALKED ABOUT FAH, A PROVCE TYPILLY OF THOSE WHO SEEK TO PERSECUTE LGBTQ PEOPLE” DID BUTTIGIEG PERFORM SOME WAY PEOPLE FOUND OFF-PUTTG? MAYBE. BUT THAT ISN’T SOMETHG UNKNOWN TO LGBTQ PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY WHEN WE ARE SPAC WHERE WE ARE TYPILLY NOT. AND ALL POLICIANS ARE PERFORMERS TO A LARGE GREE; TV PECIALLY MANDS . MORE PESTRIAN-LY, MAYBE BUTTIGIEG IS A STIFF PERSON, MAYBE HE IS NOT AS EASE AS YOU WOULD WISH HE WAS. IS HE LCULATG? MAYBE. BUT WOULD THAT BE SUCH AN UNUAL QUALY A POLIL POWER-PLAYER? IS NOT A PREREQUISE FOR THE JOB?HERE’S WHAT PETE BUTTIGIEG DID ON A NATNAL STAGE THAT HIS MANY CRICS HAVE NOT GIVEN HIM FULL AND PROPER CRED FOR. HE KISSED AND EMBRACED HIS HBAND, AND SPOKE LOVGLY ABOUT HIS HBAND TOO. HE TALKED ABOUT FAH, A PROVCE TYPILLY OF THOSE WHO SEEK TO PERSECUTE LGBTQ PEOPLE. HE TALKED ABOUT G OUT.HE TOLD A YOUNG LGBTQ PERSON, 9-YEAR-OLD ZACHARY RO, HOW BRAVE HE WAS TO E OUT. HE DIDN’T PRUME TO GIVE ZACHARY THE ACCEPTED, SYPY “ GETS BETTER” GAY LURGY. HE JT SPOKE TO HIM EVENLY AND RPONSIBLY, WHOUT PRUMPTN OR BEG PATRONIZG. AN ADULT GAY MAN SHARED A STAGE WH A GAY KID, AND GENTLY TRIED TO ADVISE HIM AS AN EQUAL. PASSG STRENGTH AND URAGE BETWEEN GENERATNS IS ONE OF THE GREAT LGBTQ ACTS OF LOVE AND SUPPORT. NONE OF THIS SHOULD BE RADIL, FOR SURE. “IT SHOULDN’T MATTER,” PEOPLE EMAIL ME ABOUT BUTTIGIEG BEG GAY AND BEG OUT. “WHO R?” NO, BEG AN OUT-LGBTQ PERSON NNG FOR PRINT SHOULDN’T MATTER. BUT STILL, DO. I WONR IF ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO DON’T RE ABOUT PETE BUTTIGIEG BEG GAY ARE ALSO EXTREMELY BOTHERED BY THE SUPREME COURT CURRENTLY NSIRG IF SHOULD BE OK TO FIRE SOMEONE BEE THEY ARE LGBTQ; AND SOON TO NSIR WHETHER “RELIG EEDOM” N BE ED AS MIKE PENCE AND HIS ILK WOULD LIKE—AS AN ALL-PURPOSE WEAPON AGAST LGBTQ PEOPLE WANTG TO ADOPT OR FOSTER CHILDREN, AND A WHOLE LOT MORE. THIS IS WHY PETE BUTTIGIEG’S NDIDACY MATTERS. BEE IS HAPPENG A UNTRY NOT OK WH S LGBTQ PEOPLE, AND THEIR PRENTLY IMPERILED EQUALI AND RIGHTS. IF YOU ARE SO FORTABLE WH PETE BUTTIGIEG, THEN LGBTQ AMERINS ULD REALLY DO WH YOUR HELP FIGHTG THE ONSLGHT OF BIGOTRY THE TMP ADMISTRATN IS VISG UPON . BUTTIGIEG FACED THE KD OF HOMOPHOBIA THAT LIBERALS LIKE TO TELL THEMSELV HAS BEEN EXTGUISHED. IT HASN’T. IT WAS THERE THE NIGHT OF THE IOWA UC, WHEN A WOMAN WAS FILMED REVEALG SHE WOULD NOT VOTE FOR HIM—UP UNTIL THEN, HER NDIDATE OF CHOICE—JT BEE HE WAS GAY. IT ALL SPEWED OUT PREDICTABLY: BIBLE THIS, S THAT.THEN ME RH LIMBGH, WH A PRELU OR WARNG OF WHAT WOULD E BUTTIGIEG’S WAY IF HE MA THROUGH THE PRIMARY FIRE AND BEME TMP’S OPPONENT THIS NOVEMBER. LIMBGH IS A HOMOPHOBE THE CLASSIC VE, TELLGLY FOCED (LIKE ERICK ERICKSON) ON GAY PEOPLE SEXUALLY, WHAT WE DO TO PHYSILLY EXPRS OUR AFFECTN FOR ONE ANOTHER.LIMBGH DID A VILE B OF GASLIGHTG: OH, AMERI WOULDN’T LIKE THEIR PRINT KISSG ANOTHER GUY, HE SAID. THEN HE JT LET HIS POISON PILL MARATE THE PUBLIC SQUARE. AND THERE WAS, THE KEY TO THE HOMOPHOBIA THE REPUBLINS RELY ON TO STROY NDIDAT LIKE BUTTIGIEG—TO SIMPLY HOPE VOTERS N BE GALVANIZED BY DISFORT AND DISGT. “THAT IS WHAT PETE BUTTIGIEG FACED EVERY DAY OVERTLY AND VERTLY, THAT OLD, NFECTED DISGT ABOUT GAY PEOPLE DO BED, LONG-BAKED TO THE PUBLIC DISURSE OVER LGBTQ PEOPLE, AND THE LAWS CRAFTED AGAST ” IT’S THE OLST WAY TO STOKE HATRED, AND LI AT THE ROOTS OF ALL THE ANTI-LGBTQ POLICI THAT OFFICIALS TRY TO SCRIBE STATUTE: “WE DON’T LIKE WHAT YOU DO BED. YOU’RE UNNATURAL.” EVERYTHG SAID TO LGBTQ KIDS AS THEY TRY TO SURVIVE SCHOOL, AS THEY TRY TO AVOID THE QUEER-BASHER’S FISTS, IS WHAT POLICIANS AND PUNDS E TO STOKE THEIR HATRED AND PERPETUATE EQUALY.THAT IS WHAT PETE BUTTIGIEG FACED EVERY DAY OVERTLY AND VERTLY, THAT OLD, NFECTED DISGT ABOUT SAME-SEX SEX, LONG-BAKED TO THE PUBLIC DISURSE OVER LGBTQ PEOPLE AND THE LAWS CRAFTED AGAST . AND STILL, SPE NNG THIS GNTLET, BUTTIGIEG WASN’T “GAY ENOUGH” FOR SOME. (COME ON, HE EVEN GOT SNIPE-Y WH AMY KLOBUCHAR. IT WAS GREAT TV, AND PRETTY DARN GAY.)MOST POWERFULLY PERHAPS (AND AGA, SOMETHG HE HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN ENOUGH CRED FOR), BUTTIGIEG ALSO SPOKE ABOUT HIS FAH, AND NOT ONLY THAT HE POSED HIS FAH AND S SIGNIFINCE SQUARE AGAST THE FAH THAT PENCE AND HIS EVANGELIL PEERS VOKE WHEN THEY DISCRIMATE AGAST LGBTQ PEOPLE. BUTTIGIEG MA CLEAR HIS GOD WAS JT AS IMPORTANT AS THE ONE THE NSERVATIVE RIGHT WG HAVE -OPTED AS THEIR BATTERG RAM AGAST LGBTQ PEOPLE. “MY MARRIAGE TO CHASTEN HAS MA ME A BETTER MAN. AND Y, MR. VICE PRINT, HAS MOVED ME CLOSER TO GOD," BUTTIGIEG SAID. “SPEAKG FOR MYSELF, I N TELL YOU THAT IF ME BEG GAY WAS A CHOICE, WAS A CHOICE THAT WAS MA FAR, FAR ABOVE MY PAY GRA. AND THAT’S THE THG I WISH THE MIKE PENC OF THE WORLD WOULD UNRSTAND. IF YOU’VE GOT A PROBLEM WH WHO I AM, YOUR PROBLEM IS NOT WH ME. YOUR QUARREL, SIR, IS WH MY CREATOR.”BUTTIGIEG OVER AND OVER AGA SISTED ON OWNG HIS FAH, HAVG PRI HIS FAH, AND BRAVELY NONTED HIS OPPONENTS ON TERRORY THEY VET AS THEIR OWN. AND HE DID WH W AND MISCHIEF, AS WHEN TMP HAD REMEND LIMBGH NOT APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT HE HAD SAID ABOUT BUTTIGIEG. “THE IA OF THE LIK OF RH LIMBGH OR DONALD TMP LECTURG ANYBODY ON FAY VALU—I MEAN, SORRY BUT, ONE THG ABOUT MY MARRIAGE IS ’S NEVER VOLVED ME HAVG TO SEND HH MONEY TO A PORN STAR AFTER CHEATG ON MY SPOE WH HIM OR HER” “THE IA OF THE LIK OF RH LIMBGH OR DONALD TMP LECTURG ANYBODY ON FAY VALU—I MEAN, SORRY BUT, ONE THG ABOUT MY MARRIAGE IS ’S NEVER VOLVED ME HAVG TO SEND HH MONEY TO A PORN STAR AFTER CHEATG ON MY SPOE WH HIM OR HER,” BUTTIGIEG SAID. “SO THEY WANNA BATE FAY VALU? LET’S BATE FAY VALU. I’M READY.”HERE AGA, BUTTIGIEG HEAD TO HOSTILE TERRORY—THE “FAY VALU” RHETORIC ED TO HURT LGBTQ PEOPLE SO MANY WAYS FOR SO MANY YEARS. BUTTIGIEG SWIPED THE FLAMG TORCH AND SIMPLY WAVED BACK THE BIGOTS’ FAC.HERE, JT AS HE HAS DONE WH THE ISSUE OF FAH, BUTTIGIEG SAID A FIRM “NO” AND REAMED THEIR WORDS TO MOCK THEIR HYPOCRISY BUT ALSO TO SHOW THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE HAVE OWNERSHIP AND PRENCE THE “FAY” SPACE TOO. HE WAS DOG SOMETHG EXCEPTNALLY QUEER AND RADIL. “HE HAS SHOWN THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N OCCUPY SPAC THAT THOSE WHO DISCRIMATE AGAST HAVE LONG SOUGHT TO EXCLU OM. HE HAS SHOWN THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N DO THIS WHILE KISSG THEIR PARTNERS, BY BEG OUT” BUTTIGIEG’S REER, HIS PRENCE THE PUBLIC EYE, IS FAR OM OVER, AND AS THIS CHAPTER ENDS HE HAS SET A VALUABLE EXAMPLE. IN A UNTRY CURRENTLY UNR THE NTROL OF A VILENTLY ANTI-LGBTQ ADMISTRATN, BUTTIGIEG HAS SHOWN NOT JT THAT AN LGBTQ PERSON N N FOR PRINT. HE HAS SHOWN THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N OCCUPY SPAC THAT THOSE WHO DISCRIMATE AGAST HAVE LONG SOUGHT TO EXCLU OM. HE HAS SHOWN THAT LGBTQ PEOPLE N DO THIS WHILE KISSG THEIR PARTNERS, WHILE BEG OUT, AND WHILE SKEWERG BIGOTRY SUCH A WAY THAT LEAV THE BIGOTS AMMUNN-LS. NOT GAY ENOUGH? OH, PETE BUTTIGIEG WAS WAY-GAY, AS HIS LEGACY WILL HOPEFULLY SHOW. TIM TEEMAN

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