Pete Buttigieg is nng, but many say US not ready for gay print

Contents:

• IN STIRRG SPEECH, PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AGA FOR LGBTQ AMERINS AS FIRST GAY BET NOMEE
• IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
• ANOTHER GAY MAN JT ANNOUNCED HE'S RUNNG FOR PRINT OF THE UNED STAT
• A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT
• PETE BUTTIGIEG IS MAKG HISTORY WH 2020 N, BUT MANY AMERINS THK US NOT READY FOR GAY PRINT
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE YOUNG, GAY VETERAN AND MIDWT MAYOR WHO WANTS TO TAKE ON TMP 2020

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

Nearly a year ago D Mo, Pete Buttigieg hugged his hband onstage after his w the Iowa uc ma him the first openly LGBTQ ndidate to earn legat toward a major polil party’s printial, he’s makg history aga as the first openly gay man to be nomated to a Cabet role, wh Print-elect Joe Bin tappg Buttigieg this week as his pick for U. “I n remember watchg the news… (and) seeg a story about an appotee of Print Clton named to be an ambassador attacked and nied a vote the Senate bee he was gay – ultimately able to serve only by a recs appotment, ” he said. “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. Navy Rerve, me out as gay while servg as South Bend mayor 2015, sayg he had felt for years that he uld be out or polics, but not nomatn as Transportatn secretary, said LGBTQ Victory Instute print Annise Parker, “is a new tone a s-long effort to ensure LGBTQ people are reprented throughout our ernment – and s impact will reverberate well beyond the partment he will lead.

Supreme Vedda, print and CEO of the North Texas LGBT Chamber of Commerce, said he hoped Buttigieg is appreciated as much for the skills and perspective he brgs to the Cabet role as for his stat as a gay man, though he acknowledged that Buttigieg’s visibily uld help break down stereotyp. Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay U.

IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?

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. 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.

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

Man, ” wh Buttigieg’s same-sex marriage, and said Amerins are “still not ready to elect a gay guy kissg his hband on the bate stage [as] print. 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. "Spooner, 49, is fely a ls nservative figure that Buttigieg: He lls Fischerspooner's 2018 album, Sir, "aggrsively homosexual.

"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.

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.

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

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. 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.

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

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.

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. And while the new Congrs that took office last year had a rerd 10 openly LGBTQ+ members, no gay man or lbian had ever ma a credible n for the Whe Hoe.

PETE BUTTIGIEG IS MAKG HISTORY WH 2020 N, BUT MANY AMERINS THK US NOT READY FOR GAY PRINT

It beme obv that his stat as a gay man was more of a pl than a m, a untry where the speed of progrs on the issu has routely been unrtimated, pecially the 21st century. “Sce 1972, anytime you asked me what might be like the next three years, I’ve always been too psimistic, ” said Barney Frank, the former Massachetts ngrsman who was the send Hoe member to say he was gay, 1987, and the first to marry his same-sex partner, 2012. ”For olr veterans of the movement like myself, who never expected marriage equaly our own lifetim – much ls a gay man the Whe Hoe – was pecially satisfyg to see this Rhos Scholar, an acplished lguist and ocsnal ncert pianist, charm his way to the top of the printial pack, to see him fish first Iowa and send New Hampshire, ahead of everyone except fied expectatns the bt way imagable to see Chris Wallace terview him on Fox News and never mentn his sexualy.

And was thrillg when Rh Limbgh claimed that Ameri was “still not ready to elect a gay guy kissg his hband” – and Buttigieg shot back that his marriage to a man had “never volved me havg to send hh money to a porn star after cheatg on my spoe” mpaign entered the big leagu by raisg more than $80m om nearly a ln small donors.

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

Movement veterans such as Andrew Tobias were pecially thrilled by the succs of someone who so rembled the hero of Tobias’s important novel of 1973, The Bt Ltle Boy the World, whose hero is a gay boy who needs to be better at jt about everythg, orr to succeed spe the fact that he is of who took the time to learn what Buttigieg actually stands for were lighted by how substantive he was. All of which meant he would not only be the first gay print – he would also be by far the most progrsive ndidate ever elected to the Whe only big surprise of his mpaign was also s biggt disappotment. While rightwg homophob remaed largely silent, Buttigieg’s angrit opponents turned out to be radil queers, who cid that the first male ndidate to kiss his hband on natnal televisn jt wasn’t gay one gay adviser to the Buttigieg mpaign explaed to the Guardian: “There is a perceptn that the fact of likg other men is sufficient to give you any cred, bee no longer brgs any reprsn the circl that all of his crics hab.