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 BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT
- DEMOCRATIC MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG NNG FOR PRINT; WOULD BE FIRST OPENLY GAY NOMEE
- A MEMOIR FROM THE YOUNG, GAY MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND RUNNG FOR PRINT
- WOULD BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? MAYBE NOT.
- TMP SAYS HE WOULD VOTE FOR A GAY 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.
A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
The first openly gay major printial ndidate, Mr. Buttigieg rose to the primary’s top tier, but was unable to build a broad aln of voters, and lost badly South Carola Saturday. * gay mayor running for president *
“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. 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.
PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT
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.
DEMOCRATIC MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG NNG FOR PRINT; WOULD BE FIRST OPENLY GAY NOMEE
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.
A MEMOIR FROM THE YOUNG, GAY MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND RUNNG FOR PRINT
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.
WOULD BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? MAYBE NOT.
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.
TMP SAYS HE WOULD VOTE FOR A GAY PRINT
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.