Who Is Pete Buttigeig, the Gay Millennial Mayor the Democrats Didn’t See Comg? | Vogue

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• WHO IS PETE BUTTIGEIG, THE GAY MILLENNIAL MAYOR THE DEMOCRATS DIDN’T SEE COMG?
• IN STIRRG SPEECH, PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AGA FOR LGBTQ AMERINS AS FIRST GAY BET NOMEE
• PETE BUTTIGIEG, GAY AND CHRISTIAN, CHALLENG RELIG RIGHT ON THEIR OWN TURF

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

But while O’Rourke is standg on a great many unters and other surfac, and raisg rerd donatns, Buttigieg—the openly gay, lennial, multilgual mayor of South Bend, Indiana—is the upstart ndidate the Democrats didn’t seen a rebe to the ia that only a straight, whe, elr statman type would be “electable” Tmp’s Ameri, is Buttigieg who is pollg third behd Joe Bin (who has yet to announce) and Bernie Sanrs a new Emerson College poll of the 2020 Iowa uc. “I was well to adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay, ” Buttigieg wrote. ” Supporters say he uld, some day, be the first openly gay print U.

As a young, hyperarticulate, openly gay technocrat who ocsnally read Norwegian novels, Buttigieg appealed to a certa segment of progrsiv who found him nfirmatn that they are supposedly more telligent, tolerant and sophistited than their untrymen.

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

Jacksonville Jaguars’ Kev Maxen is the first male major pro men’s ach to e out as gay. Tmp issued the remarks the wake of the adly mass shootg at the Pulse Nightclub, a gay nightclub Orlando, send part of the vio shifts to foc on DeSantis, appearg to try to portray him as the paragon of masculy. Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg Washgton on May 8, Vucci / AP file“I’m gog to choose my words refully, partly bee I’m appearg as secretary, so I n’t talk about mpaigns, ” Buttigieg, the first openly gay Cabet member to be nfirmed by the Senate, said an terview on CNN’s “State of the Unn.

Christa Phaw, the DeSantis mpaign’s rapid rponse director, bshed off backlash a tweet Friday night: “Opposg the feral regnn of ‘Pri Month’ isn’t ‘homophobic. Buttigieg’s hband, Chasten Buttigieg, snarked Friday on Twter: “This is actually very gay.

”Log Cab Republins, a group that reprents LGBTQ nservativ, tweeted that the vio “ventured to homophobic terrory. ”DeSantis signed a seri of bills rtrictg LGBTQ rights this year, cludg a measure that expands what crics have lled Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law and another that will ban transn-related re for mors. “It’s a book I wish I would have had when I was terrified, when I was believg that I was the only gay person the world for a long time.

PETE BUTTIGIEG, GAY AND CHRISTIAN, CHALLENG RELIG RIGHT ON THEIR OWN TURF

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.