The U.S. is threateng visa bans on Ugandan officials after the untry’s print signed an anti-gay law that threatens life sentenc, cludg the ath penalty. NBC’s Josh Lerman reports.
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- JOSH LERMAN WIKI, AGE, HEIGHT, WEDDG, SALARY, NET WORTH, NBC, GAY
- IN A FIRST, VP JOE BIN OFFICIAT A GAY WEDDG
- NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZE PULLS DOWN HOMOPHOBIC OP-ED ABOUT PETE BUTTIGIEG BY AN OPENLY GAY LERARY CRIC
- BIN: JEWISH LEARS DROVE GAY MARRIAGE CHANG
- UGANDA PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT CLUS ATH PENALTY
- “THE GAY LEATHERMAN” – A SM DOCUMENTARY
JOSH LERMAN WIKI, AGE, HEIGHT, WEDDG, SALARY, NET WORTH, NBC, GAY
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“I don’t thk Manchter has a gay bar, ” he rells sayg. Judd, CNN’s vio producer verg Pete Buttigieg, would later tell me Manchter has at least two gay bars. Among the roughly dozen reporters on the b that day, five were gay—part of a terie of LGBTQ journalists verg the first mastream openly gay printial ndidate.
A number of gay natnal rrponnts have foced on Buttigieg, too, a list that clus Josh Lerman, an NBC News natnal polil reporter; Chris Johnson of the Washgton Bla; Jeremy Peters of the New York Tim, and the Washgton Post’s Chelsea Jan and opn wrer Jonathan Capehart. For others, ’s tentnal: They put their hands up, fascated by the chance to ver the first openly gay top tier printial ndidate. Over the past 12 months, om New Hampshire to Iowa, the gay reporters on the Buttigieg beat have wnsed and reported on anti-gay hecklg at stops D Mo, Iowa, and Marshalltown, Iowa.
IN A FIRST, VP JOE BIN OFFICIAT A GAY WEDDG
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They have argued among themselv about how their lleagu the media have documented Buttigieg’s gayns. ” Smh relled once llg a work about a chyron that read somethg like: “Gay mayor ns for print.
“Havg so many LGBTQ reporters verg this mpaign has helped facilate a more thoughtful and nuanced nversatn about what means to be gay 2020. In November, on a three-day b tour of Iowa, I asked Buttigieg what meant to him that the majory of reporters routely verg him were also gay.
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NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZE PULLS DOWN HOMOPHOBIC OP-ED ABOUT PETE BUTTIGIEG BY AN OPENLY GAY LERARY CRIC
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“I’m always cur to see what a gay voter some of the plac that aren’t the gay mecs is talkg about. Buttigieg’s brother--law has said he don’t “support the gay liftyle.
” “We knew to ask if he expected any tensn at the Thanksgivg table om some of his ls gay-iendly -laws, ” Bixby, who was there, says.
BIN: JEWISH LEARS DROVE GAY MARRIAGE CHANG
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It’s not about, ‘Oh, Pete is gay and I’m gay, so I empathize wh him.
’ It’s, ‘Pete is gay and I’m gay, so I know that a qutn about this specific experience is gog to produce an tertg or illumatg answer. Other gay reporters have taken siar l of quiry wh Buttigieg.
On the b Frankl, New Hampshire, Del Aguila asked Buttigieg whether he had any gay mentors. It was a ary veteran and person of fah “who jt let me know ’s OK to be a Christian veteran gay Amerin, but I did not grow up wh a lot of out gay people my life, ” he rpond. “It’s helped facilate really ep, thoughtful nversatns about what was like to be the closet up until his 30s, what was like g out, how affected him as a young man, how affects him today on the mpaign, ” Smh says of the fact that gay reporters are verg the mpaign.
UGANDA PRINT SIGNS ANTI-GAY LAW THAT CLUS ATH PENALTY
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As a black and gay journalist, the Post’s Capehart has had an even more sgular wdow to Buttigieg’s mpaign, particularly as he has stggled to w over black voters. In a November 2019 lumn headled “The ugly lie about black voters and Pete Buttigieg, ” Capehart tackled the stereotype that Ain Amerins stat such as South Carola are homophobic. “Black voters don’t own homophobia and they are not monolhic, ” Capehart wrote.
“You are verg somethg that is unprecented, which is a major openly gay printial ndidate havg to ntend wh protters shoutg vulgari about their sexualy at them durg a mpaign event, ” says Lerman, who documented the episo for NBC News.
“THE GAY LEATHERMAN” – A SM DOCUMENTARY
“The fact of the matter is that gay rights issu, same-sex marriage, other issu like that, are still matters of public ntroversy our untry, ” says Lerman, who pched his edors on verg Buttigieg around his lnch April after Buttigieg had raised $7 ln the first fundraisg quarter. Mark Meier, a gay Washgton-based munitns profsnal who lnched the Draft Pete movement on social media 2018 but who now supports Sen.