Electn 2020: Pete Buttigieg Is First Openly Gay Man To Run For US Print

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• A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.
• ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT
• PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE YOUNG, GAY VETERAN AND MIDWT MAYOR WHO WANTS TO TAKE ON TMP 2020
• WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N
• THERE WON’T BE A GAY PRINT 2021. SO WHAT DO BUTTIGIEG’S CAMPAIGN TELL US?
• ANOTHER GAY MAN JT ANNOUNCED HE'S RUNNG FOR PRINT OF THE UNED STAT
• PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS GAY PRINTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ELECTED BUT DON'T KNOW WHICH ON: 'MY GAYDAR DON'T EVEN WORK THAT WELL THE PRENT'
• PETE BUTTIGIEG IS AN OPENLY GAY ARY VETERAN, RHOS SCHOLAR, AND DEMOCRATIC MAYOR A RED STATE. HE'S ALSO NNG FOR PRINT
• OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT

A MARRIED GAY MAN IS NNG FOR PRINT. THAT’S A BIG AL.

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. Gay marriage was legal only two stat January 2009 – Massachetts and Connecticut.

ELECTN 2020: PETE BUTTIGIEG IS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO RUN FOR US PRINT

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. 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.

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. In 2012, Wisns’s Tammy Baldw beme the first gay person elected to the US Senate (she was re-elected 2018).

PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT

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. 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. For a lol stunt stgglg wh her sexualy, might be helpful for an openly gay mayor to send the msage that her muny will always have a place for her.

And for a nservative rint om a different generatn, whose unease wh social change is partly rooted the imprsn that he don’t know anyone gay, perhaps a faiar face n be a remr that we’re all this together as a muny. But one thg is for sure: Havg a gay ndidate – or nomee, or print – is no longer such a farfetched ia. The first openly gay man to n for print the history of the Uned Stat is receivg a lot of qutns about how to rrectly pronounce his tongue-twistg fay Buttigieg, a Democrat, is currently mayor of the cy of South Bend, Indiana.

As of last unt, 24 Democrats have dited or have actually entered the race to bee the party’s printial what has aroed the tert of Ameri’s polil ele is that Buttigieg is a proud openly gay man. Buttigieg is the first openly gay man to n for print. WASHINGTON — Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, announced Wednday that he was formg a printial exploratory mtee — makg him the first openly gay Democrat to seek the office.

MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT

Before Buttigieg, the only openly gay person to n for print was Republin Fred Karger. Buttigieg said that while beg a gay ndidate might not make news the astal ci, certaly still did Indiana, where he has anchored his still-young polil reer.

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.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe first openly gay major printial ndidate, Mr. As the first openly gay major printial ndidate, Mr. — Pete Buttigieg, the former small-cy Indiana mayor and first openly gay major printial ndidate, said Sunday night he was droppg out of the Democratic race, followg a cshg loss the South Carola primary where his poor performance wh black Democrats signaled an abily to build a broad aln of cisn jt 48 hours before the biggt votg day of the primary, Super Tuday, when 15 stat and terrori will allot about one-third of the legat over all.

MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE YOUNG, GAY VETERAN AND MIDWT MAYOR WHO WANTS TO TAKE ON TMP 2020

“He is the first openly gay ndidate for print of the Uned Stat and he did extraordarily well, ” Mr. — Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, officially announced his printial bid Sunday afternoon, hopg to make history as the youngt-ever, and the first-ever openly gay, manr chief.

WILL PETE BUTTIGIEG BE THE FIRST GAY PRINT? OLR LGBTQ AMERINS CELEBRATE HIS N

; was elected as the mayor of South Bend at the age of 29; took a leave of absence durg his first term to serve Afghanistan as a naval telligence officer; me out as gay a lumn his lol newspaper a few months before his re-electn; was re-elected wh nearly 80 percent of the vote; married his partner Chasten a church ceremony that was live-streamed on the Inter; and wrote a bt-sellg Sunday, Buttigieg ma equent mentn of each of the parts of his résumé, but spent particular time addrsg his ary service and his g out a bluntly personal way — and at tim meld stori om each part of his life together pellg yarns that prompted loud applse. ”Mayor Pete Buttigieg announc his printial bid Sunday South Bend, Grs / RtersButtigieg spent the months after his exploratory mtee lnch crisscrossg the untry, troducg himself to crowds the early-votg stat of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carola and Nevada, liverg a highly personal speech about how he wrtled wh his sexual orientatn, and takg shots at Vice Print Mike Pence over his stanc on gay marriage and LGBTQ jos an exceptnally crowd field of ndidat vyg for his party's nomatn.

THERE WON’T BE A GAY PRINT 2021. SO WHAT DO BUTTIGIEG’S CAMPAIGN TELL US?

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Buttigieg is a Rhos Scholar and Afghanistan War veteran who n boast of beg the untry's youngt mayor of a cy of South Bend's size when he was elected 2011 at age if he ws the Democratic nomatn, Buttigieg would be the first openly gay printial ndidate nomated by a major party. And an openly gay man has never e close to wng a U. SAN FRANCISCO – When Donald Bell was growg up a small town Illois, the only place to get rmatn about beg gay was the public library.

ANOTHER GAY MAN JT ANNOUNCED HE'S RUNNG FOR PRINT OF THE UNED STAT

“In the Webster’s unabridged dictnary, when you got to the entry for homosexualy there were smudg bee a lot of people had been there. The same wh the Encyclopedia Branni entry, ” said Bell, years later, when Bell was a llege stunt the 1960s, beg gay was illegal. Now Pete Buttigieg, an openly gay man, is nng for print of the Uned Stat and leadg some Democratic primary fact, The D Mo Register's Iowa Poll found 25% of Iowa's likely Democratic uc-goers said he was their first choice for print, btg rivals Joe Bin, Bernie Sanrs and Elizabeth Warren, all of whom were about 10 percentage pots behd the South Bend, Ind., Poll:Print Tmp's populary sky-high among registered RepublinsThe Iowa uc are the first a seri of state ntts 2020.

3 uc giv ndidat momentum and natnal attentn as they head to the three other early stat that prece the huge chunk of legat at stake on Super Tuday many olr gay Amerins, Buttigieg's ndidacy is an important moment. “Mayor Pete’s not nng as a gay ndidate, he’s embracg who he is all s dimensn, cludg beg an openly gay man who’s married to his hband, ” said JoDee Wterhof, senr vice print for policy and polil affairs wh the Human Rights Campaign, a LGBTQ civil rights anizatn based Washgton, D.

PETE BUTTIGIEG SAYS GAY PRINTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ELECTED BUT DON'T KNOW WHICH ON: 'MY GAYDAR DON'T EVEN WORK THAT WELL THE PRENT'

The qutn of whether an openly gay man n be elected print of the Uned Stat is still an open one, but polls make seem ls impossible than once might have seemed. Buttigieg has stood out not for beg gay but for wng over voters wh his telligence, msage of uny and lls for “Medire for all who want ” and keepg private surance but also makg a ernment-backed health surance optn ’s not for ee llege but has a plan for public lleg to be ee for stunts om fai earng ls than $100, 000 a se the Green New Deal as a set of goals for alg wh climate change but not as a way to overhl the enomy.

That has turned some voters, cludg gay on, off bee he isn’t more progrsive an electn season when Sens. It had Tmp losg to Bin Geia by 8 percentage pots, 51%-43%, Sanrs wng 48%-44% and Warren ahead numbers aren’t surprisg given that 66% of Amerins support marriage equaly, and every state at least 50% of voters support legal equaly for gay people, Wterhof said.

PETE BUTTIGIEG IS AN OPENLY GAY ARY VETERAN, RHOS SCHOLAR, AND DEMOCRATIC MAYOR A RED STATE. HE'S ALSO NNG FOR PRINT

S., which ma gay marriage the law of the land only 2015, is ready for an openly gay print. Roughly 37% of rponnts a POLITICO/Morng Consult poll late October said they were eher fely or probably not ready for a gay print, while 50% of rponnts said that wasn’t an issue for them. Bronski is a gay activist and profsor of women's and genr studi at Harvard Universy whose most recent book is "A Queer History of the Uned Stat for Young People.

Gay rights won through slow gas across USAButtigieg isn’t the first major-party printial ndidate who is openly gay.

Public would be prepared to accept and support an openly LGBTQ printial ndidate who was ls nventnal, ” Ste Negrelli, 67, remembers all too well what was like to be a young gay man the 1960s. He was standg across the street when the police pulled up and raid the bar – and when the gay and lbian patrons fought back.

OPN AMERI HAS ALREADY HAD A GAY PRINT

That night of rtg 50 years ago marked the begng of a gay activism wave that is still memorated June by gay pri paras worldwi. Negrelli says he uldn’t have imaged what would be like to even nsir a gay ndidate back 1969 when he was still high school. “Never my imagatn did I ever thk an openly gay printial ndidate would garner the natnal attentn he’s garnered.

It gets tirg to see the same people n aga and aga, ” she the fact that he’s gay is also important to her as someone who’s Ain-Amerin and lbian. The Victory Fund’s Parker says she has seen ments on social media that Buttigieg isn’t gay enough – but that miss the pot, she says. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTNews AnalysisSupporters say that Pete Buttigieg’s ntributn to history will be dimished if the takeaway is that the untry shgged when the first openly gay man had a ser shot at the Schaff/The New York TimIt was the qutn that followed former Mayor Pete Buttigieg everywhere he went when he first announced his printial mpaign: Is the untry really ready to send a gay man to the Whe Hoe?