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."
Contents:
- MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
- IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
- GAY, SGLE, DIVORCED, REMARRIED: DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT REFLECT THE CHANGG AMERIN FAY
- IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN
- ARE SOME DEMOCRATIC VOTERS RELUCTANT TO SUPPORT A GAY CANDIDATE?
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. On the mpaign trail, he speaks of beg gay terms of fay valu, emphasizg he is a lovg, mted same-sex marriage, and what his ndidacy says about cln and equaly Ameri today. WATCH: Is Ameri Ready to Elect a Gay Print?
IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
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“Pete’s succs so far this mpaign reprents an evolutn Amerin polics, upendg tradnal notns of electabily and provg that Ameri is ready to elect s first openly gay print, ” Ellt Imse, munitn director at the LGBTQ Victory Fund, said. LGBTQ is an clive signatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and other sexual orientatns.
GAY, SGLE, DIVORCED, REMARRIED: DEMOCRATIC NDIDAT REFLECT THE CHANGG AMERIN FAY
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The same poll showed 40% of Ain Amerin rponnts sayg they are reluctant to vote for a gay man. “If Ain Amerins were sort of disproportnately cled to not vote for somebody who is gay, you would thk that would have shown up there as well, ” said David Barker, director of the Center for Congrsnal and Printial Studi at Amerin Universy Washgton. Man, ” wh Buttigieg’s same-sex marriage, and said Amerins are “still not ready to elect a gay guy kissg his hband on the bate stage [as] print.
In fact, he said, he feels great after easily wng electn last week to bee Florida's first LGBTQ state said the electn of so many lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people across the untry this electn cycle “is a direct phback on the hatred and bigotry over the last four years, ” cg the Tmp admistratn’s rhetoric agast immigrants, people of lor and the LGBTQ muny. Even wh one gay cumbent’s Hoe race yet to be lled, LGBTQ reprentatn Congrs will h an all-time high next noncumbent LGBTQ victors, both progrsive Democrats, easily won their rac. Mondaire Jon, an attorney, and New York Cy Council member Rchie Torr handily won their rac for New York’s 17th and 15th Congrsnal Districts, rpectively, beg the first openly gay Black ndidat elected to Congrs.
Bisexual Democrat Torrey Harris and gay Republin Eddie Mannis both won seats the state said Mannis’ victory is relatively unual, as the “Republin Party has still not been that welg to LGBT folks.
IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN
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‘A seat at the table’While last week’s victori for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer ndidat have creased reprentatn across the U. Populatn, the Victory Fund timat we would need to elect 22, 000 more lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer elected officials to achieve “equable reprentatn. ” Now, many historians say Buchanan was most likely gay and he's been regard more warmly for 's a change Buttigieg pecially is aware of — even though he said his "gaydar" isn't powerful enough to terme Buchanan's sexualy.
For one thg, there’s an openly gay ndidate the race now (South Bend, IN, mayor Pete Buttigieg), reflectg the dramatic shift attus toward LGBTQ people symbolized most promently the legalizatn of same-sex marriage. In 1992, he nfsed a lumn for the Stanford Daily that he had been “disgted by gays. ” The 26-year-old op-ed is ultimately meant to advote agast anti-gay anim, but his word choice is unfortunate.
ARE SOME DEMOCRATIC VOTERS RELUCTANT TO SUPPORT A GAY CANDIDATE?
“Allow me to be more direct, pg the phemisms of my past—I hated gays, ” Booker wrote. “While hate is a four-letter word I never would have admted to, the sentiment clanstely pervad my every teractn wh homosexuals.