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• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE YOUNG, GAY VETERAN AND MIDWT MAYOR WHO WANTS TO TAKE ON TMP 2020
• PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT
• PETE BUTTIGIEG: HOW A YOUNG, GAY MAYOR BEME A DEMOCRATIC STAR
• IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
• IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN
• 'BEG GAY IS NOT ENOUGH': BUTTIGIEG'S NDIDACY DIVIS LGBTQ DEMOCRATS
• BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDATE, WAS HATED BY THE LEFT. WHY?

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

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.

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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.

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

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.

PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT

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. 8 ballot were 678 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer ndidat — an 18% crease om 2020, when 574 ndidat ran for office, acrdg to the group. “Tonight’s Rabow Wave is a clear rebe to the creased homophobia and transphobia sweepg our muni – and prov voters want to elect qualified LGBTQ lears, " Fujii said.

He is the first openly transgenr man to w any state legislature out LGBTQ immigrant elected to CongrsDemocrat Robert Garcia, who is gay, was elected  the race for California's 42nd ngrsnal district.

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

First openly gay person elected VermontDemocrat Bec Balt was elected Vermont to the U.

She is the first woman and openly gay person to reprent the state out lbian Lata elected to state legislatureDemocrat Patricia Contreras is one of the first out lbian Latas elected to the Arizona Hoe of out LGBTQ woman to serve the Iowa SenateDemocrat Liz Bent, who intifi as a queer woman, was elected to the Iowa State Senate, District 39. 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.

IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?

And an openly gay man has never e close to wng a U. 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.

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. In jt a matter of a month, this 37-year-old - who would be the youngt and the first openly gay US print - has transformed himself om long-shot to legimate ntenr for the Whe Hoe. Surname pronounced "BOOT-edge-EDGE" Speaks French, Spanish, Italian, Malte, Arabic, Norwegian and DariSon of two universy amics, father an immigrant om MaltaMayor of South Bend, Indiana, sce 2012A former US Navy telligence officer and veteran of Afghan warCame out as gay aged 33 and married June 2018Perhaps most importantly, this surge of tert Buttigieg's ndidacy has translated to mpaign dollars, as he recently announced he has raised more than $7m (£5.

In 2015, shortly the midst of his mayoral re-electn mpaign, Buttigieg announced a lumn the lol newspaper that he is gay.

IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN

""Beg gay has had no bearg on my job performance bs, the ary, or my current role as mayor, " he ntued.

"I admire the fact that he's openly gay, " says Celia Botto of Manchter, who me to the Buttigieg event wh her hband, Brandon. "I n't believe 's taken this long for an openly gay man to n for print.

'BEG GAY IS NOT ENOUGH': BUTTIGIEG'S NDIDACY DIVIS LGBTQ DEMOCRATS

He's for the Green New Deal, but as a "ncept" and a "amework" that emphasis the emergency the world ptn, 'Voters will re about my ias, not that I'm gay'Buttigieg's stump speech is heavier on visn than the kds of policy tails, however, which mostly e out terviews and media qutng. "Even Buttigieg's gay inty is beg qutned om some rners of the left. "Has Buttigieg faced setbacks or barriers to succs bee he's gay?

Over half of LGBTQ+ ndidat intify as gay men, so any of the gas for women would help to balance the Armstrong, who is nng to reprent District 16 the Alaska Hoe of Reprentativ, says that beg an out queer woman on the mpaign trail has opened nversatns about genr and sexualy wh voters, like explag what means to be pansexual to the many potential nstuents who didn’t is grateful she’s an era where the nversatns are possible. “So many people like Johnny [Ellis] me before and ma huge sacrific to stay the closet, and uldn't live as their full, te selv, ” Armstrong tells Them, referrg to the polician who served the Alaskan legislature om 1986 to 2017 and didn’t e out as gay until 2016.

Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay U. On the mpaign trail, he speaks of beg gay terms of fay valu, emphasizg he is a lovg, mted same-sex marriage, and what his ndidacy says about cln and equaly Ameri today.

BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDATE, WAS HATED BY THE LEFT. WHY?

WATCH: Is Ameri Ready to Elect a Gay Print?

“Pete’s succs so far this mpaign reprents an evolutn Amerin polics, upendg tradnal notns of electabily and provg that Ameri is ready to elect s first openly gay print, ” Ellt Imse, munitn director at the LGBTQ Victory Fund, said.

LGBTQ is an clive signatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and other sexual orientatns. The same poll showed 40% of Ain Amerin rponnts sayg they are reluctant to vote for a gay man. “If Ain Amerins were sort of disproportnately cled to not vote for somebody who is gay, you would thk that would have shown up there as well, ” said David Barker, director of the Center for Congrsnal and Printial Studi at Amerin Universy Washgton.