LGBT People Rage At Pete Buttigieg For Not Beg Gay Enough

Contents:

• Y, IT MATTERS THAT PETE BUTTIGIEG IS GAY
• PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON NFIRMED TO US BET
• BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDATE, WAS HATED BY THE LEFT. WHY?
• A MEMOIR FROM THE YOUNG, GAY MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND RUNNG FOR PRINT
• LGBT PEOPLE RAGE AT PETE BUTTIGIEG FOR NOT BEG GAY ENOUGH
• 9-YEAR-OLD ASKS PETE BUTTIGIEG FOR HELP TELLG 'THE WORLD I'M GAY, TOO'

Y, IT MATTERS THAT PETE BUTTIGIEG IS GAY

Democratic printial hopeful Pete Buttigieg said he’s steerg clear of LGBTQ media the a rad terview on Wednday, SiriXM host Clay Cane of “The Clay Cane Show” asked Buttigieg, who would be the first openly gay print if elected, about cricisms “LGBT circl” that “more mascule-prentg men have more accs, ” posg the qutn, “How different would be if you were quote unquote ‘more effemate? “That’s why I n’t even read the LGBT media anymore, bee ’s all, ‘he's too gay, ’ ‘not gay enough, ’ ‘wrong kd of gay. ” Phillip Pirdi, edor--chief of Out magaze, wrote on Twter rponse to Buttigieg’s Stafford, edor--chief of the LGBTQ news outlet The Advote, poted out that articl that notably qutned whether Buttigieg is “bad for gays” or “gay enough” were not even published LGBTQ media outlets.

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PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE

It still matters that I am gay, so matters to me that Buttigieg is The Buttigieg boomlet isn’t like the othersToday, if Buttigieg or I wish to donate blood, we mt absta om sex for one year, or our blood is emed unf for e. Gay people are still classified as so great an HIV risk that ’s easier to reject our many stat, remas legal to fire gay people for beg gay. Five me if I like the ia of havg someone the Whe Hoe who unrstands what I’ve been through, and who would protect me om the people who would turn me NBC News poll published March found that 30 percent of Amerins said votg for a gay or lbian ndidate would make them “very unfortable” or give them “some rervatns.

That’s the third I worry about whenever I nsir kissg my hband goodbye the first time my life, I’m now reprented ernment by another gay man, Brian Sims, the outspoken Pennsylvania lawmaker who went viral for flippg off Mike Pence. )Read: Pete Buttigieg thks all the 2020 Democrats are too oldSims told me that beg gay put Buttigieg “learng suatns” that give the ndidate “heightened sight to issu far beyond human sexualy.

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LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

“Anytime a member of our muny breaks through a barrier, ’s extremely signifint, ” said Reprentative David Cicille of Rho Island when I asked whether matters that Buttigieg is gay. 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. Former 2020 printial ndidate and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has ma history as the first openly gay Cabet member U.

"I n remember watchg the news -- 17-years-old Indiana, seeg a story about an appotee of Print Clton named to be an ambassador attacked and nied a vote the Senate bee he was gay -- ultimately able to serve only by a recs appotment, " he said.

PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON NFIRMED TO US BET

Eric Fanng served as Secretary of the Army durg the Obama Admistratn, the first openly gay dividual to hold an armed service's top civilian posn. In the Tmp admistratn, Richard Grenell served as actg director of Natnal Intelligence, the first openly gay dividual to serve a Cabet-level posn an actg pacy, but his posn was not 's Cabet also clus the first female treasury secretary, first female director of Natnal Intelligence and first Black fense secretary. The remark that Tmp ma support of LGBTQ people me the wake of the massacre at Pulse Nightclub, a gay hot spot, Orlando, Fla.

The vio triggered a fierce backlash, even among some nservative groups such as the Log Cab Republins, one of the largt gay GOP groups the untry, which slammed the DeSantis mpaign for venturg “to homophobic terrory. DeSantis has drawn ire om the LGBTQ muny the past, cludg for signg Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn Act, which crics dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

BUTTIGIEG, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRATIC PRINTIAL NDIDATE, WAS HATED BY THE LEFT. WHY?

Buttigieg, the first openly gay man nfirmed to a Cabet posn, ma the remarks a wi-rangg terview at the Department of Transportatn wh members of the Natnal Associatn of Hispanic Journalists. Buttigieg, the first openly gay man nfirmed to a Cabet posn, ma the remarks a wi-rangg terview at the Department of Transportatn wh members of the Natnal Associatn of Hispanic said he had not "very closely" tracked the argument that broke out Tuday a Hoe appropriatns meetg on fundg for transportatn, hog and urban velopment. ”From Your Se ArticlPete Buttigieg Can’t Reach Ron DeSantis to Talk Florida Transportatn Projects: Report ›Pete Buttigieg Lays Into Homophobic Ron DeSantis Campaign Ad: Vio ›Watch Pete Buttigieg Expla the GOP's New Anti-LGBTQ+ Culture Wars ›Hoe Republin ‘Terrorists’ Target LGBTQ+ Communy Center Fundg ‘Unprecented’ Move ›Pete Buttigieg Slams SCOTUS 303 Creative Rulg: A 'Solutn Lookg for a Problem' ›.

Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn. ”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive. She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state.

After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual! ”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported. “To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters.

A MEMOIR FROM THE YOUNG, GAY MAYOR OF SOUTH BEND RUNNG FOR PRINT

“Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30. Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. Pete Buttigieg won Senate approval on Tuday as transportatn secretary, the first out gay person to be nfirmed to a bet post.

Unr Donald Tmp, Richard Grenell served as actg director of natnal telligence and is gay, but he did not have to face Senate nfirmatn as an actg director. “It’s a book I wish I would have had when I was terrified, when I was believg that I was the only gay person the world for a long time. Tmp issued the remarks the wake of the adly mass shootg at the Pulse Nightclub, a gay nightclub Orlando, send part of the vio shifts to foc on DeSantis, appearg to try to portray him as the paragon of masculy.

LGBT PEOPLE RAGE AT PETE BUTTIGIEG FOR NOT BEG GAY ENOUGH

Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg Washgton on May 8, Vucci / AP file“I’m gog to choose my words refully, partly bee I’m appearg as secretary, so I n’t talk about mpaigns, ” Buttigieg, the first openly gay Cabet member to be nfirmed by the Senate, said an terview on CNN’s “State of the Unn. Christa Phaw, the DeSantis mpaign’s rapid rponse director, bshed off backlash a tweet Friday night: “Opposg the feral regnn of ‘Pri Month’ isn’t ‘homophobic. ”Log Cab Republins, a group that reprents LGBTQ nservativ, tweeted that the vio “ventured to homophobic terrory.

9-YEAR-OLD ASKS PETE BUTTIGIEG FOR HELP TELLG 'THE WORLD I'M GAY, TOO'

”DeSantis signed a seri of bills rtrictg LGBTQ rights this year, cludg a measure that expands what crics have lled Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law and another that will ban transn-related re for mors. The day after Pete Buttigieg won Iowa, the wrer Mark Harris, who is married to the playwright Tony Khner, tweeted: “Even if you support someone else, as I do, the fact that a gay man n w a state uc for Print is a wele tone.

”Iowa has long been somethg of an outlier – 2004 was among the few Republin ntrolled stat that rejected a nstutnal amendment banng same-sex marriage – but the ia that an openly gay man uld w the Democratic uc there took most Amerins by surprise. We had to wa until we were five years olr than our straight unterparts to have those among who n rell a not-too-distant time when gog to a gay bar still felt dangero, watchg a gay printial ndidate get so far while beg mercilsly pilloried has been a disorientg experience. His lack of tractn wh black voters, though the end about the same as for Elizabeth Warren, remaed his achill heel to the whatever crics thoughts of his rerd South Bend, much of the nversatn was lored by lurid characterizatns of the way he chose to prent his gay the mpaign, a Slate lumnist characterized Buttigieg as havg “sturdy ti to straight culture”, whatever that means.

Then, last July, the New Republic published, then leted, an say by the novelist Dale Peck which exriated Buttigieg as “not the same kd of gay” as Peck, and by implitn many other gay men. The piece was wily nmned, but also praged what has bee a monplace meme on polil Twter: Buttigieg as a gay Uncle Tom whose succs merely reflects his servily to the stat quo. Although there was wispread outrage when rightwg pund Rh Limbgh claimed that a gay man who kissed his hband onstage uld not w the princy, is, perversely, on the left that this kd of crique has flourished.

Although a whe gay man, Matthew Shepard, remas an endurg symbol of homophobic vlence, the greater challeng faced by people of lor and transgenr women of lor particular now preoccupi the LGBTQ+ movement, and rightly so. In a society where a show such as Morn Fay n be ABC’s longt-nng edy seri, a married gay man – though impossible a snt five years ago – creasgly seems pestrian or even bourgeois.

If the unrlyg pot of this book is to draw attentn to himself as a future Democratic lear for a party achg for one, then his thumpg re-electn as mayor a state Tmp ptured wh 56 percent is que a sellg small part of the fascatn is that he is openly gay, twice elected what he has sardonilly scribed as “flyover untry. It tak more than 40 pag until he clearly allus to beg gay, a quick tour as he scrib wnsg the rise of the fant Facebook at Harvard. When he wr about alg wh Mike Pence (who was then the ernor) as Pence champned a “relig eedom” bill that crics argued would let anizatns discrimate agast gays and lbians, Buttigieg across as jt another player at the table.

“The scenar of a 30-somethg mayor, sgle, gay, terted a long-term relatnship and lookg for a date Indiana mt have been a first, ” he wr. Buttigieg reprents a new generatn of gay Amerins, one whose sexualy is not trsic to their one would ever acce Buttigieg of beg an evotive wrer, but the story is told wh brisk engagement — is difficult not to like him — whout skg to the kd of prose one might fear om someone traed wrg reports for McKsey. After readg this memoir wrten 25 years later, the notn that Buttigieg might be the natn’s first openly gay print don’t feel que as Nagourney is the Los Angel bure chief of The Tim and the -thor of “Out for Good: The Stggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement Ameri.