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

Contents:

• IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• FIRST OPENLY GAY US PRINTIAL CANDIDATE?
• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED
• OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
• AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE
• ALMOST 70 PERCENT OF AMERINS OK WH GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE, POLL FDS
• A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
• BUTTIGIEG: ‘I’M NOT NNG TO BE THE GAY PRINT OF THE UNED STAT’
• WOULD BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? MAYBE NOT.
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE YOUNG, GAY VETERAN AND MIDWT MAYOR WHO WANTS TO TAKE ON TMP 2020

IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?

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.

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.

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

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.

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, 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.

FIRST OPENLY GAY US PRINTIAL CANDIDATE?

“I was well to adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay, ” Buttigieg wrote at the time. Nearly fifty years ago, police raid a New York Cy bar popular wh homosexuals lled the Stonewall Inn.

The exhib shows how the uprisg helped beg the morn gay rights movement the Uned Stat.

She says that, over the years, gay rights activists have fought for the right to hold jobs, serve the ary, speak publicly about beg gay and marry someone of the same sex. First openly gay ndidate for print? This year, the gay rights movement the Uned Stat may be takg a new step.

PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS THERE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN GAY PRINTS. HERE'S WHY THAT THEORY IS COMPLITED

If he ns, Pete Buttigieg would be the first openly gay person to mpaign for print of the Uned Stat.

A public opn study this year found 68 percent of Amerins would accept a gay printial ndidate. That promot openly gay public officials. Vice Print Mike Pence’s posn on gay rights.

The letters mean Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer or Qutng. homosexual - n. Pete Buttigieg believ he probably won’t be the first gay print if he’s elected 2020.

OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT

Mayor was asked how he’d rpond to crics who ll him too young, too liberal and too gay. I would image we’ve probably had excellent prints who were gay — we jt didn’t know which on, ” Buttigeig said.

Some of the most popular theori about whether there has ever been a gay print surround Print Jam Buchanan, one-term print om 1857-1861. Has had a gay print–by the morn fn. “It might be more accurate to say that there may have been prints the past who sired men, or had sexual experienc wh men… they wouldn’t have necsarily intified as gay a 21st century sense.

AMERI'S ONLY BACHELOR PRINT MAY HAVE BEEN ITS ONLY GAY ONE

Likely already had a gay print.

For Buttigieg to say that another print may have been gay the way that ’s unrstood the 21st century, “’s jt farcil, ” Balcerski says.

Has had a gay print? Even if the two had some sort of attractn to other men, they wouldn’t have intified as gay bee that notn of livg as an out gay man didn’t exist, both historians say. The term homosexual, for stance, didn’t exist until 1868.

ALMOST 70 PERCENT OF AMERINS OK WH GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE, POLL FDS

“I thk that there were always gray areas and nuanc and plenty of possibili for men the late 19th and 20th century to have sex wh other men and not nsir themselv gay, ” Clev says. But by the standard of morn gay inty, no print would f to that tegory. ” Both Balcerski and Clev say gay inty needs to be seen through the lens of the era.

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

“Did Jam Buchanan or Abraham Lln intify as gay the morn sense of the term? The 19th century was an era before homosexualy was medilly classified as a disorr or perversn.

“I fd that the early 19th century, ironilly, almost prents an era where the same kds of pathologi [agast gay men] that will be prent all the way through the pre-Stonewall era aren’t que place yet. Balcerski says ’s important to chronicle gay history, but he says popular theori about the lik of Buchanan and Lln are too simplistic. “As we bee more and more terted broang the tt, so to speak, of LGBT history, what we fd is we’ve taken people, who for one reason or another, don’t f to a normative pattern of heterosexual marriage and we basilly put this label on them as gay, ” Balcerski says.

BUTTIGIEG: ‘I’M NOT NNG TO BE THE GAY PRINT OF THE UNED STAT’

“If elected, you would be the first openly gay print of the Uned Stat, ” Stephen Colbert said to Pete Buttigieg after the mayor of South Bend, Ind., clared his ndidacy.

While the characterizatn of beg openly gay or “out” is relatively new, the fact is the Uned Stat has already had a gay print whose ntemporari knew : Jam Buchanan.

Ined, the Uned Stat has also had a gay vice print and, maybe more surprisgly, a gay senator om stunts takg U. Andrew Jackson referred to Kg as “Miss Nancy”— a phemism for a gay ntemporari lled Kg Buchanan’s “better half, ” and one ngrsman referred to him as “Mrs.

WOULD BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? MAYBE NOT.

” All this would be que peculiar if Buchanan was not gay. At most uld suggt Buchanan was not openly discsg this moment, we fet that beg gay the mid-19th century did not tomatilly exclu a man om natnal learship. The ia that some people, cludg policians and social lears, are gay was not news or shockg to our forefathers.

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

S., sorry, Pete Buttigieg, you n’t aim to be the first gay print, although you uld be the first married gay print. ANTI-GAY GOP LAWMAKER VOTED AGAINST CORONAVIRUS BILL BECAUSE IT ‘REDEFINED FAMILY’.