Pete Buttigieg is first openly gay Democrat to n for print

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Do the evince prented here suggt the possibily of the existence of gay U.S. prints? Let's fd out if the mors are te,

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11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY

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Buchanan, JFK, Clton, Obama, LBJ and more prumably gay U. Consirg how much people love to speculate on who might and might not be gay — I thk ’s replaced baseball and oby as Ameri’s favore pastime — I was surprised I uldn’t fd a sgle list out about the potential closeted homosexualy of the U.

Prints, ranked om least likely to most likely gay. Apologi to Elanor Roosevelt who would’ve ma the cut if I really need to fudge thgs… and also to Harry Tman, whose ployg of the Enola Gay was gog to be my emergency 11th pick if I uldn’t fd anyone better. Still, tabloid speculatn and beg one of the most pro-gay rights prints ever isn’t enough to ph him any higher on the list than last.

) — which suggts he wasn’t gay. That beg said, a book lled Jack and Lem dug ep to his lifelong iendship wh a gay man named Lem Billgs… and at least threw some iffs to the mix.

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

Pri season is upon . There's a gay man nng for Print. And rapper Tom MacDonald thought would a great time to release his latt sgle “Straight Whe Male." * is there a gay man running for president *

There was a sarstic New Yorker wre-up of why Thomas Jefferson might’ve been gay last year. Sce the man who was clost to LBJ for 25 years turned out to be gay on the down low (he had a wife and six kids; they separated a few years after the sndal) — speculatn surfaced that maybe there was somethg between Johnson and Jenks.

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

Supporters say that Pete Buttigieg’s ntributn to history will be dimished if the takeaway is that the untry shgged when the first openly gay man had a ser shot at the princy. * is there a gay man running for president *

If the past ten years have tght anythg, ’s the lour a polician ralli agast gay rights, the more likely he is to wd up gettg ught sgg “Glory, Glory Hole-allujah. In 1953, Eisenhower signed Executive Orr 10450, which classified gays and lbians as potential natnal secury threats and banned them om workg for the ernment.

PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT

But I rearched every sgle print for this list — and when people do get around to jawg on Chter A., the homosexual thg keeps poppg up.

FRED KARGER WAS THE 1ST OPENLY GAY PERSON OM A MAJOR PARTY TO N FOR PRINT

There’s a ton of talk about Lln’s potential homosexualy. If any prumably regnized gay U. There’s a gay man nng for Print of the Uned Stat.

So rapper Tom MacDonald thought would a great time to release his latt sgle “Straight Whe Male, ” a #NotAllMen hip hop anthem about how he’s sick of beg lled a racist, sexist homophobe when he swears he’s anythg but. Gay rights thk I’m tryna stop ’em (Woo). Other lyrics clu l like “Hontly I thk that everyone looks alike/If they aren’t whe then I’m sorry, ’s te” and “Y’all blame me for wag we’re pay’ the women/Y’all blame me for rights that gay people aren’t given.

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.

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Fred Karger was the 1st openly gay person om a major party to n for print.

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