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Contents:

• 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
• WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• WHAT 'S LIKE BEG AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR
• FIRST NGRSNAL RACE BETWEEN TWO GAY NOME MARKS PROGRS FOR LGBTQ NDIDAT
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• THERE WON’T BE A GAY PRINT 2021. SO WHAT DO BUTTIGIEG’S CAMPAIGN TELL US?
• 11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY
• PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT
• ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT

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.

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

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. 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.

WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N

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.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

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.

WHAT 'S LIKE BEG AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR

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.

FIRST NGRSNAL RACE BETWEEN TWO GAY NOME MARKS PROGRS FOR LGBTQ NDIDAT

“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.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

SAN FRANCISCO – When Donald Bell was growg up a small town Illois, the only place to get rmatn about beg gay was the public library. “In the Webster’s unabridged dictnary, when you got to the entry for homosexualy there were smudg bee a lot of people had been there. The same wh the Encyclopedia Branni entry, ” said Bell, years later, when Bell was a llege stunt the 1960s, beg gay was illegal.

Now Pete Buttigieg, an openly gay man, is nng for print of the Uned Stat and leadg some Democratic primary fact, The D Mo Register's Iowa Poll found 25% of Iowa's likely Democratic uc-goers said he was their first choice for print, btg rivals Joe Bin, Bernie Sanrs and Elizabeth Warren, all of whom were about 10 percentage pots behd the South Bend, Ind., Poll:Print Tmp's populary sky-high among registered RepublinsThe Iowa uc are the first a seri of state ntts 2020.

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

3 uc giv ndidat momentum and natnal attentn as they head to the three other early stat that prece the huge chunk of legat at stake on Super Tuday many olr gay Amerins, Buttigieg's ndidacy is an important moment. “Mayor Pete’s not nng as a gay ndidate, he’s embracg who he is all s dimensn, cludg beg an openly gay man who’s married to his hband, ” said JoDee Wterhof, senr vice print for policy and polil affairs wh the Human Rights Campaign, a LGBTQ civil rights anizatn based Washgton, D. The qutn of whether an openly gay man n be elected print of the Uned Stat is still an open one, but polls make seem ls impossible than once might have seemed.

Buttigieg has stood out not for beg gay but for wng over voters wh his telligence, msage of uny and lls for “Medire for all who want ” and keepg private surance but also makg a ernment-backed health surance optn ’s not for ee llege but has a plan for public lleg to be ee for stunts om fai earng ls than $100, 000 a se the Green New Deal as a set of goals for alg wh climate change but not as a way to overhl the enomy.

That has turned some voters, cludg gay on, off bee he isn’t more progrsive an electn season when Sens. It had Tmp losg to Bin Geia by 8 percentage pots, 51%-43%, Sanrs wng 48%-44% and Warren ahead numbers aren’t surprisg given that 66% of Amerins support marriage equaly, and every state at least 50% of voters support legal equaly for gay people, Wterhof said. S., which ma gay marriage the law of the land only 2015, is ready for an openly gay print.

11 U.S. PRINTS WHO MIGHT’VE BEEN GAY

Roughly 37% of rponnts a POLITICO/Morng Consult poll late October said they were eher fely or probably not ready for a gay print, while 50% of rponnts said that wasn’t an issue for them.

PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT

Bronski is a gay activist and profsor of women's and genr studi at Harvard Universy whose most recent book is "A Queer History of the Uned Stat for Young People. Gay rights won through slow gas across USAButtigieg isn’t the first major-party printial ndidate who is openly gay. Public would be prepared to accept and support an openly LGBTQ printial ndidate who was ls nventnal, ” Ste Negrelli, 67, remembers all too well what was like to be a young gay man the 1960s.

He was standg across the street when the police pulled up and raid the bar – and when the gay and lbian patrons fought back. That night of rtg 50 years ago marked the begng of a gay activism wave that is still memorated June by gay pri paras worldwi.

Negrelli says he uldn’t have imaged what would be like to even nsir a gay ndidate back 1969 when he was still high school.

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

“Never my imagatn did I ever thk an openly gay printial ndidate would garner the natnal attentn he’s garnered. It gets tirg to see the same people n aga and aga, ” she the fact that he’s gay is also important to her as someone who’s Ain-Amerin and lbian. The Victory Fund’s Parker says she has seen ments on social media that Buttigieg isn’t gay enough – but that miss the pot, she says.

Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn. ”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive. ” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay.