A recent Gallup Panel poll asked Amerins whether they thought the untry was ready to elect a woman as print and found a majory sayg they are. Most Amerins also believe the untry is ready to elect a black or Jewish print, but do not thk would elect a person om other mory groups, particularly atheists or gays or lbians.
Contents:
- IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
- IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
- A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY
- IS AMERI—AND THE RT OF THE WORLD—READY FOR A GAY PRINT?
- OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- HACKNEY: POLL SAYS AMERI ISN'T READY FOR A GAY PRINT LIKE BUTTIGIEG. WHO R?
- IS AMERI READY FOR A GAY PRINT? ‘YOU’RE GOG TO SEE THE WALL CMBLE’
- NEARLY 70 PERCENT OF AMERINS ARE OKAY WH A GAY PRINT, POLL SAYS
- UNED STAT STUDY CENTREEDUTN UNRGRADUATEAMERIN STUDIUNS OF STUDYHONOURSWHERE N AMERIN STUDI TAKE YOU?POSTGRADUATEUNS OF STUDYGO GLOBALUCLA STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMWASHGTON DC PLACEMENT PROGRAMWHERE N STUDY ABROAD LEAD YOU?CAREER READYINTERNSHIPS ATRALIAALUMNI2023 ANZASAREARCH PUBLITNSREPORTSBRIEFSCOMMENTARYPOLLG AND PUBLIC OPNBOOKS AND JOURNALSEXPLAERSPROGRAMSENOMIC SECURYEMERGG TECHNOLOGYFOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENCEPOLICS, SOCIETY AND CULTUREPROJECTSTECHNOLOGY AND SECURY PODSTTHE DEBATE PAPERSFELLOWSHIPSTHE SUNNYLANDS INIATIVETHE ALLIANCE AT 70EXPERTS EVENTS UPG EVENTSVIEW ALL EVENTS →12 SEPTEMBER 2023FD OUT MORE FILM SCREENG: MR SMH GO TO WASHGTON 1 NOVEMBER 2023FD OUT MORE SYDNEY INTERNATNAL STRATEGY FOM: THE UNED STAT, ATRALIA AND A NTTED INDO-PACIFICABOUT MISSN AND HISTORYPEOPLEEXPERTSSTAFFBOARD OF DIRECTORSFUNDGMEDIAJOBS, FELLOWSHIPS AND TERNSHIPSCONNECT SUBSCRIBERECENT NEWSLETTERSVIOS AND PODSTSCONTACTEDUTN UNRGRADUATEAMERIN STUDIUNS OF STUDYHONOURSWHERE N AMERIN STUDI TAKE YOU?POSTGRADUATEUNS OF STUDYGO GLOBALUCLA STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMWASHGTON DC PLACEMENT PROGRAMWHERE N STUDY ABROAD LEAD YOU?CAREER READYINTERNSHIPS ATRALIAALUMNI2023 ANZASAREARCH PUBLITNSREPORTSBRIEFSCOMMENTARYPOLLG AND PUBLIC OPNBOOKS AND JOURNALSEXPLAERSPROGRAMSENOMIC SECURYEMERGG TECHNOLOGYFOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENCEPOLICS, SOCIETY AND CULTUREPROJECTSTECHNOLOGY AND SECURY PODSTTHE DEBATE PAPERSFELLOWSHIPSTHE SUNNYLANDS INIATIVETHE ALLIANCE AT 70EXPERTS EVENTS ABOUT MISSN AND HISTORYPEOPLEEXPERTSSTAFFBOARD OF DIRECTORSFUNDGMEDIAJOBS, FELLOWSHIPS AND TERNSHIPSCONNECT SUBSCRIBERECENT NEWSLETTERSVIOS AND PODSTSCONTACTHOME /ANALYSIS /CAN AMERI ELECT A GAY PRINT? SHARE✉PRT⎙19 FEBARY 2020CAN AMERI ELECT A GAY PRINT?
IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay Democratic ndidate for print of the Uned Stat to mount a major mpaign, emerged as one of the lears the Democratic Party’s early nomatn ntts * is america ready to elect a gay president *
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.
“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. “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.
IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
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Sign up to our Eveng Headl email for your daily gui to the latt newsSign up to our ee US Eveng Headl emailPete Buttigieg, seekg to bee Ameri’s first openly gay print, has said he was sadned after learng a woman Iowa sought to ncel her vote for him after beg told of his sexualy, but said he was “nng to be her print too” a vio that went viral days after the uc, where the former South Bend mayor sneaked past Bernie Sanrs to claim victory, a woman was seen displayg surprise when she learned the 38-year-old was gay. In his 2019 memoir, Shortt Way Home: One Mayor’s Challenge and a Mol for Ameri’s Future, he reunts makg the cisn to e out as gay before nng for reelectn South Bend 2015. “I was well to adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay, ” he wrote the South Bend Tribune.
”Mr Buttigieg’s stat the race as the first openly gay ndidate of a major party, has equently been the foc of discsns among his supporters, those who back one of his many rivals, as well as polil punds. While some have said Ameri is too bigoted to elect a gay mayor, others have said his ndidacy might be another of Ameri’s glass ceilgs nsired unbreakable until they shattered, such as Barack Obama’s 2008 victory, or Hillary Clton beg the first woman nomated for the princy for a major party 2016.
While Ms Clton lost the electoral llege to Donald Tmp, and wh the Whe Hoe, she beat him the popular vote by almost three ln Buttigieg and Bernie Sanrs claim Iowa ws spe rults layKev Naff, edor of the Washgton Bla, which foc on many issu of tert to the LGBT+ muny, wrote this week: “Is Ameri ready for a gay print? Some members of the LGBT+ muny have cricised him for not beg more outspoken on mentators have poted out was tellg the woman Iowa had no ia about the sexualy of her preferred ndidate, until after she had voted for missned by Poli and published October suggted half of Amerin voters said they were personally ready for a gay or lbian print, but were divid as to whether the untry was.
A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY
As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * is america ready to elect a gay president *
Some have suggted homophobia is one reason for him srg ls well among the muni of lour, but many mentators have dismissed such claims as base racism. Poll of the week: A new Qunipiac Universy poll fds that 70% of voters (cludg 86% of Democrats and pennts who lean Democratic) say they are open to electg a gay print. The same poll also disvered, however, that only 36% of voters (cludg 40% of Democrats and pennts who lean Democratic) thk the Uned Stat is ready to elect a gay print.
It’s also possible that some voters are not willg to adm to homophobia, while signalg by sayg sentially, “I’m ready, but others may not be.
IS AMERI—AND THE RT OF THE WORLD—READY FOR A GAY PRINT?
Raymond Buckley, the chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, talks about Pete Buttigieg and what means to be gay and married and nng for print 2019. * is america ready to elect a gay president *
I should note that pollg on whether the untry is ready for a gay print differs signifintly om pollg on whether Amerins thought the untry was ready for a black print 2007 or a woman print 2015.
Intertgly, all three stanc, more voters said they were ready for a black, female or gay print than thought the untry was ready for one.
But even if Amerins are more tolerant of gay Amerins than voters thk they are, more are prejudiced agast gay Amerins than they were agast black Amerins 2007 or women 2014. Today, about a quarter of all voters (cludg 10% of Democrats) told Qunipiac that they weren’t open to vote for a gay man for print.
OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT
About 35% of Amerins openly admted the 2018 General Social Survey that they thought “homosexual sex relatns” were almost always or always wrong. The percentage of Amerins who say they would vote for a gay person for print is up 15-20 pots sce 2007, pendg on the poll you look at.
Further, ’s possible that if Buttigieg be succsful on the mpaign trail, then Amerins may bee even more open to the ia of a gay print.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
From the Op-Ed pag of the New York Tim to CNN’s The Suatn Room, Print Jimmy Carter’s recent claim on Big Thk that Ameri is fact ready to elect a gay Commanr--Chief sometime “ the near future” created que the media stir. As part of our latt seri, A Gay Whe Hoe?, Fred Karger sat down wh Big Thk to talk ndidly about his chanc of beg the 45th Print of the Uned Stat.
Karger, who plans to n as an “Inpennt Republin, ” says there’s nothg ntradictory about beg gay and Republin, spe the unfortunate realy that many lears of the Republin Party have led efforts agast gay marriage. “There is a Vany Fair/CBS poll that showed over 50% of the public supports the ncept of an openly gay print, ” says Karger.
”If Karger officially announc his bid for the princy this Sprg, makg the him the first openly gay man to ever n for the posn, he isn’t so sure how right-leang talk show hosts like Rh Limbgh and Glenn Beck will react. This past May, the Print of the Iowa Christian Alliance Steve Scheffler sent Karger a terse email, warng him that “the radil homosexual muny” and he were “not wele the state of Iowa. Whether they are Republins or Democrats, men or women, Karger says there are plenty of closeted gay people polics all over the Uned Stat.
HACKNEY: POLL SAYS AMERI ISN'T READY FOR A GAY PRINT LIKE BUTTIGIEG. WHO R?
The ma reason he is nsirg nng for Print is to teach young people that ’s okay to be gay: “Relign is the culpr here teachg people that this is wrong. [/b]I thk the kd of people who wouldn't vote for Pete Buttigieg bee he's gay, wouldn't vote for him if he was straight eher, bee they won't ever vote for a Democrat. How well someone is able to appeal to the mass is far more tertg than there homosexuals, women and non-wh that are pable of beg Print?
IS AMERI READY FOR A GAY PRINT? ‘YOU’RE GOG TO SEE THE WALL CMBLE’
There are zero allegatns that Obama had gay sex when he was married or cheated on Michelle at any you kd of have the double standard.
I thk a gay person would set a different tone for this untry, one that we need so I do wish him the bt of luck.
Im not polil any way, shape or form but I reckon at some pot, even the USA (Im Brish) they will elect a gay print, I mean regardls of party, you already had Obama and I bet the 70s and 80s people said there would be no Black print.
NEARLY 70 PERCENT OF AMERINS ARE OKAY WH A GAY PRINT, POLL SAYS
Most of those people are probably still nservative to vote for the first gay print ever, but might be persuad to vote across party l if the Democrats had someone ls ntrovercial the gay shouldn't be ntrovercial, but to those people would be, and those people got Tmp to office the first time, so they do, unfortunately, still matter.
UNED STAT STUDY CENTREEDUTN UNRGRADUATEAMERIN STUDIUNS OF STUDYHONOURSWHERE N AMERIN STUDI TAKE YOU?POSTGRADUATEUNS OF STUDYGO GLOBALUCLA STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMWASHGTON DC PLACEMENT PROGRAMWHERE N STUDY ABROAD LEAD YOU?CAREER READYINTERNSHIPS ATRALIAALUMNI2023 ANZASAREARCH PUBLITNSREPORTSBRIEFSCOMMENTARYPOLLG AND PUBLIC OPNBOOKS AND JOURNALSEXPLAERSPROGRAMSENOMIC SECURYEMERGG TECHNOLOGYFOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENCEPOLICS, SOCIETY AND CULTUREPROJECTSTECHNOLOGY AND SECURY PODSTTHE DEBATE PAPERSFELLOWSHIPSTHE SUNNYLANDS INIATIVETHE ALLIANCE AT 70EXPERTS EVENTS UPG EVENTSVIEW ALL EVENTS →12 SEPTEMBER 2023FD OUT MORE FILM SCREENG: MR SMH GO TO WASHGTON 1 NOVEMBER 2023FD OUT MORE SYDNEY INTERNATNAL STRATEGY FOM: THE UNED STAT, ATRALIA AND A NTTED INDO-PACIFICABOUT MISSN AND HISTORYPEOPLEEXPERTSSTAFFBOARD OF DIRECTORSFUNDGMEDIAJOBS, FELLOWSHIPS AND TERNSHIPSCONNECT SUBSCRIBERECENT NEWSLETTERSVIOS AND PODSTSCONTACTEDUTN UNRGRADUATEAMERIN STUDIUNS OF STUDYHONOURSWHERE N AMERIN STUDI TAKE YOU?POSTGRADUATEUNS OF STUDYGO GLOBALUCLA STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMWASHGTON DC PLACEMENT PROGRAMWHERE N STUDY ABROAD LEAD YOU?CAREER READYINTERNSHIPS ATRALIAALUMNI2023 ANZASAREARCH PUBLITNSREPORTSBRIEFSCOMMENTARYPOLLG AND PUBLIC OPNBOOKS AND JOURNALSEXPLAERSPROGRAMSENOMIC SECURYEMERGG TECHNOLOGYFOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENCEPOLICS, SOCIETY AND CULTUREPROJECTSTECHNOLOGY AND SECURY PODSTTHE DEBATE PAPERSFELLOWSHIPSTHE SUNNYLANDS INIATIVETHE ALLIANCE AT 70EXPERTS EVENTS ABOUT MISSN AND HISTORYPEOPLEEXPERTSSTAFFBOARD OF DIRECTORSFUNDGMEDIAJOBS, FELLOWSHIPS AND TERNSHIPSCONNECT SUBSCRIBERECENT NEWSLETTERSVIOS AND PODSTSCONTACTHOME /ANALYSIS /CAN AMERI ELECT A GAY PRINT? SHARE✉PRT⎙19 FEBARY 2020CAN AMERI ELECT A GAY PRINT?
In orr for a gay republin to actually get stayg power, they'd need Evangelil support and Evangelils don't support thgs like gay marriage so I wouldn't know how a gay republin princy would work.