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

Contents:

• PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
• PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON NFIRMED TO US BET
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• IN STIRRG SPEECH, PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AGA FOR LGBTQ AMERINS AS FIRST GAY BET NOMEE
• PETE BUTTIGIEG: HOW A YOUNG, GAY MAYOR BEME A DEMOCRATIC STAR
• MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG: BEG GAY IS ‘NOT THE ONLY THG THAT DEF ME’ — WATCH
• WHO IS PETE BUTTIGEIG, THE GAY MILLENNIAL MAYOR THE DEMOCRATS DIDN’T SEE COMG?

PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE

Former 2020 printial ndidate and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has ma history as the first openly gay Cabet member U.

PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON NFIRMED TO US BET

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Pete Buttigieg won Senate approval on Tuday as transportatn secretary, the first out gay person to be nfirmed to a bet post. Unr Donald Tmp, Richard Grenell served as actg director of natnal telligence and is gay, but he did not have to face Senate nfirmatn as an actg director. Harvard UniversyTHE LONG RUNAnd why took him until he was 33 to e Buttigieg as a senr at Harvard UniversyJuly 14, 2019The closet that Pete Buttigieg built for himself the late 1990s and 2000s was a lot like the on that other gay men of his age and ambn hid si.

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

But no one would have found the possibily more implsible than the young man everyone on mp knew as Buttigieg, now the mayor of South Bend, Ind., stggled for a after leavg Harvard to overe the fear that beg gay was “a reer ath sentence, ” as he put his his generatn and his llege class cid to e out as young adults, whether they were nfint they would be accepted or not, and had their 20s to navigate beg open about their inty — a procs that helped make Amerins more aware and acceptg of their gay iends, fay members and -workers.

Attus toward gay rights changed immensely durg that perd, though he acknowledg that he was not always able or willg to see what broar social and legal shifts meant for him personally. ‘Someone Who Would Run for Print’He took a longer journey than his peers did, he has said, bee of the ner turmoil he experienced over whether fact he wanted to be known as the “gay” polician. Also known as “Mayor Pete, ” he is vyg to bee the first openly gay print.

PETE BUTTIGIEG: HOW A YOUNG, GAY MAYOR BEME A DEMOCRATIC STAR

He me out as gay while seekg re-electn, and he won. Also known as “Mayor Pete, ” he is vyg to bee the first openly gay Schar for The New York TimHis rerd of acplishment durg those years the closet is impossible to separate om the isolatn and anxiety he felt as he weighed the st of tellg his fay, iends and nstuents who he really was. Even liberal Cambridge, where meetg a gay stunt or profsor would have been fairly unremarkable, did not always nurture the sense of nfince that he and many of his gay classmat felt they need to be themselv.

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MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG: BEG GAY IS ‘NOT THE ONLY THG THAT DEF ME’ — WATCH

The clost thg gay men and lbians had to marriage was a civil unn, which 2000 was legal exactly one state: Vermont. “Gay marriage was not this obv liberal no-braer, ” said Mr.

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WHO IS PETE BUTTIGEIG, THE GAY MILLENNIAL MAYOR THE DEMOCRATS DIDN’T SEE COMG?

Buttigieg and his peers left llege and started embarkg on their profsnal liv, the untry was changg signifint ways, joltg their sense of what uld mean to be openly gay and have a high-profile reer.

Then Congrs would repeal the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on servg openly as gay or lbian. And the Supreme Court would clare the rights of gay men and lbians to have their relatnships regnized by the state, first 2013 when stck down the Defense of Marriage Act Uned Stat v. Texas, which stck down bans on timacy between homosexuals on grounds that such laws were an afont to their digny.