Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana — the first ndidate who is a lennial, openly gay and an Afghan War veteran, jos the 2020 printial race, sayg, "our untry needs a h start."
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- MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
- A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
- PETE BUTTIGIEG: HOW A YOUNG, GAY MAYOR BEME A DEMOCRATIC STAR
- WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N
- A MEMOIR FROM THE YOUNG, GAY MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND RUNNG FOR PRINT
- ELECTED MAYOR AT 22. ALEX MORSE, A GAY JEWISH PROGRSIVE, IS NOW NNG FOR CONGRS.
- PETE BUTTIGIEG IS AN OPENLY GAY ARY VETERAN, RHOS SCHOLAR, AND DEMOCRATIC MAYOR A RED STATE. HE'S ALSO NNG FOR PRINT
MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
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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. 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.
A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
In 2012, he blazed a path as a gay ndidate for print. Fred Karger won't let people fet. * gay mayor running for pres *
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. 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.
PETE BUTTIGIEG: HOW A YOUNG, GAY MAYOR BEME A DEMOCRATIC STAR
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.
WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N
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).
A MEMOIR FROM THE YOUNG, GAY MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND RUNNG FOR PRINT
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.
ELECTED MAYOR AT 22. ALEX MORSE, A GAY JEWISH PROGRSIVE, IS NOW NNG FOR CONGRS.
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.
PETE BUTTIGIEG IS AN OPENLY GAY ARY VETERAN, RHOS SCHOLAR, AND DEMOCRATIC MAYOR A RED STATE. HE'S ALSO NNG FOR 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.
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. 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.
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.