Gay, sgle, divorced, remarried: Democratic ndidat reflect the changg Amerin fay

Contents:

• A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
• ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• ANOTHER GAY MAN JT ANNOUNCED HE'S RUNNG FOR PRINT OF THE UNED STAT
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE YOUNG, GAY VETERAN AND MIDWT MAYOR WHO WANTS TO TAKE ON TMP 2020
• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS GAY PRINTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ELECTED BUT DON'T KNOW WHICH ON: 'MY GAYDAR DON'T EVEN WORK THAT WELL THE PRENT'
• GAY, SGLE, DIVORCED, REMARRIED: DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT REFLECT THE CHANGG AMERIN FAY
• THERE WON’T BE A GAY PRINT 2021. SO WHAT DO BUTTIGIEG’S CAMPAIGN TELL US?

A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.

Should Buttigieg w his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomatn, he will bee the first nomee of a major polil party who publicly intifi as gay. That a gay married man is nng a ser mpaign for print, however, is a big al, and we shouldn’t let the improbabily of his ndidacy stop om acknowledgg this moment.

ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT

Gay marriage was legal only two stat January 2009 – Massachetts and Connecticut.

Barack Obama beme Print, and although he was supportive of expandg legal rights for the LGBT muny and gay upl, he was on the rerd durg his mpaign as beg opposed to same-sex marriage.

MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT

I am not favor of gay marriage, ” Obama told MTV News durg the 2008 mpaign. In 2010, Print Obama signed to law the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act, endg a policy enacted 1993 that prevent gay men and lbians om servg openly the ary.

Three years later, the Supreme Court led that stat nnot ban same-sex marriage, makg legal natnwi for gay and lbian upl to marry. And durg this time, ndidat who publicly intify as gay, bisexual and transgenr have broken barriers wh their ws. In 2012, Wisns’s Tammy Baldw beme the first gay person elected to the US Senate (she was re-elected 2018).

In last year’s midterm electns, Colorado’s Jared Polis beme the first gay man the US to be elected ernor, Kyrsten Sema, who is bisexual, won a US Senate seat Arizona, and Sharice Davids, a lbian, won her US Hoe race Kansas.

ANOTHER GAY MAN JT ANNOUNCED HE'S RUNNG FOR PRINT OF THE UNED STAT

All of this is to say, que simply, that a relatively brief perd of time, the polics surroundg gay marriage and LGBT equaly shifted dramatilly. For a lol stunt stgglg wh her sexualy, might be helpful for an openly gay mayor to send the msage that her muny will always have a place for her.

And for a nservative rint om a different generatn, whose unease wh social change is partly rooted the imprsn that he don’t know anyone gay, perhaps a faiar face n be a remr that we’re all this together as a muny.

But one thg is for sure: Havg a gay ndidate – or nomee, or print – is no longer such a farfetched ia. The first openly gay man to n for print the history of the Uned Stat is receivg a lot of qutns about how to rrectly pronounce his tongue-twistg fay Buttigieg, a Democrat, is currently mayor of the cy of South Bend, Indiana.

MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE YOUNG, GAY VETERAN AND MIDWT MAYOR WHO WANTS TO TAKE ON TMP 2020

As of last unt, 24 Democrats have dited or have actually entered the race to bee the party’s printial what has aroed the tert of Ameri’s polil ele is that Buttigieg is a proud openly gay man. Buttigieg is the first openly gay man to n for print.

— Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, officially announced his printial bid Sunday afternoon, hopg to make history as the youngt-ever, and the first-ever openly gay, manr chief.

; was elected as the mayor of South Bend at the age of 29; took a leave of absence durg his first term to serve Afghanistan as a naval telligence officer; me out as gay a lumn his lol newspaper a few months before his re-electn; was re-elected wh nearly 80 percent of the vote; married his partner Chasten a church ceremony that was live-streamed on the Inter; and wrote a bt-sellg Sunday, Buttigieg ma equent mentn of each of the parts of his résumé, but spent particular time addrsg his ary service and his g out a bluntly personal way — and at tim meld stori om each part of his life together pellg yarns that prompted loud applse. ”Mayor Pete Buttigieg announc his printial bid Sunday South Bend, Grs / RtersButtigieg spent the months after his exploratory mtee lnch crisscrossg the untry, troducg himself to crowds the early-votg stat of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carola and Nevada, liverg a highly personal speech about how he wrtled wh his sexual orientatn, and takg shots at Vice Print Mike Pence over his stanc on gay marriage and LGBTQ jos an exceptnally crowd field of ndidat vyg for his party's nomatn. 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.

PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS GAY PRINTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ELECTED BUT DON'T KNOW WHICH ON: 'MY GAYDAR DON'T EVEN WORK THAT WELL THE PRENT'

“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.

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— Pete Buttigieg, the former small-cy Indiana mayor and first openly gay major printial ndidate, said Sunday night he was droppg out of the Democratic race, followg a cshg loss the South Carola primary where his poor performance wh black Democrats signaled an abily to build a broad aln of cisn jt 48 hours before the biggt votg day of the primary, Super Tuday, when 15 stat and terrori will allot about one-third of the legat over all. “He is the first openly gay ndidate for print of the Uned Stat and he did extraordarily well, ” Mr. Pete Buttigieg is no longer the only gay man seekg the hight office Ameri this electn cycle: Mician Casey Spooner announced on Instagram that he's nng for print 2020.

GAY, SGLE, DIVORCED, REMARRIED: DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT REFLECT THE CHANGG AMERIN FAY

"Spooner, 49, is fely a ls nservative figure that Buttigieg: He lls Fischerspooner's 2018 album, Sir, "aggrsively homosexual.

THERE WON’T BE A GAY PRINT 2021. SO WHAT DO BUTTIGIEG’S CAMPAIGN TELL US?

"I felt like was important to share those stori a way that wasn't sensatnalizg or dimishg or fetishizg, and really jt an hont portra of my experienc as an olr gay man. In June, Spooner told the gay news se Queerty that was important for LGBT people "to kd of reh ourselv on what means to be polilly active, to prott, what means to go agast the stat quo. "After his printial announcement, Spooner h the mpaign trail and head to Fire Island, a popular gay beach getaway near New York there, he protted what he lled a "prison-themed circu party" on the island, plag the event was appropriate while "black and brown people are systematilly rcerated for prof.

Buttigieg is a Rhos Scholar and Afghanistan War veteran who n boast of beg the untry's youngt mayor of a cy of South Bend's size when he was elected 2011 at age if he ws the Democratic nomatn, Buttigieg would be the first openly gay printial ndidate nomated by a major party. And an openly gay man has never e close to wng a U. Democratic printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg said 's "almost certa" Ameri has had gay manrs--chief an terview wh Axs on HBO.

Buttigieg ma the remarks after executive edor Mike Allen asked how the South Bend mayor would rpond to Republins that acce him of beg "too young, too liberal [and] too gay" to be print. "He ntued: "I would image we've probably had excellent prints who were gay—we jt didn't know which on. Print might be, or might have been gay, Buttigieg ntued: "My gaydar don't even work that well the prent, let alone retroactively.