Meet Pete Buttigieg: A gay mayor, Afghan War vet and lennial who's nng for print

Contents:

• PETE BUTTIGIEG: LTLE-KNOWN OPENLY GAY MAYOR ENTERS 2020 PRINTIAL RACE
• PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE
• PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON NFIRMED TO US BET
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• PIVOTAL MOMENTS GAY POLIL HISTORY
• BUTTIGIEG HBAND REC LGBTQ 'PLEDGE' WH GAY YOUTH MP VIRAL VIO
• MAYOR PETE IS PLENTY GAY

PETE BUTTIGIEG: LTLE-KNOWN OPENLY GAY MAYOR ENTERS 2020 PRINTIAL RACE

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. 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.

By now, you may have heard that some queer people thk that Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a current ntenr for the Democratic Printial nomatn, is not gay enough.

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

” I am here to notn that some of thk Buttigieg is not gay enough has an intifiable relatnship to the facts, which are that, for the purpos of this discsn, people who grew up queer this untry fall to two distct tegori of experience.

And then there is the other experience, the life of blendg , only to surprise your classmat—or, more likely, former classmat who follow you on social media—wh the revelatn that you are gay.

Recently, a iend mentned that, after thirty years of teachg, she had mentned her wife class for the first time, surprisg her stunts wh the revelatn that she was gay—and I found myself momentarily marvellg at havg the optn to e out to one’s stunts or part of his mpaign, and velopg his polil persona, Buttigieg has repeatedly told a pellg story about his g out. He also waed until after attus toward homosexualy had changed and same-sex marriage had bee legal more than half the stat and was regnized by the feral ernment—all thanks to the urage and work of people who me out before Buttigieg did. ”What mak Buttigieg an easy and reassurg choice for the olr, whe, straight people, and a disturbg possibily for the queer people who seem to be cricizg him for not beg gay enough?

PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON NFIRMED TO US BET

September 4, 2021, 12:28 PMTransportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who ma history as the first openly gay Cabet member to be nfirmed by the Senate, and hband Chasten Buttigieg are officially fathers -- twice announcg last month that the two were expandg their fay, the former 2020 Democratic printial ndidate and South Bend, Indiana, mayor, officially troduced the uple's new babi, sharg a black-and-whe photo on social media of him and his hband each cradlg a newborn a hospal bed. WASHINGTON – Pete Buttigieg got a hero’s wele as he took the stage Sunday at a fundraisg bnch for a group that supports LGBTQ improbable printial mpaign of the prevly ltle-known, openly-gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has been generatg signifint buzz, posive headl, and large crowds important primary stat like New arrived at the LGBTQ Victory Fund event h off an terview wh NBC’s "Meet the Prs.

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

“In Buttigieg, gay Amerins see a symbol of acceptance, ” the headle the day smarter:Get USA TODAY's Daily Briefg your boxBut as he spoke to a packed hotel ballroom illumated wh lavenr lights, Buttigieg shared somethg that he’s still unfortable admtg. "It’s hard to face the tth that there were tim my life when, if you had shown me exactly what was si me that ma me gay, I would have cut out wh a knife. The msage many gay people get that there’s somethg wrong wh them, he ntued, “is a msage that puts you at war not only wh yourself, but wh your maker.

“I n’t believe that somebody that was ught wrg hh money checks to adult film actrs is somebody they should be liftg up as the kd of person they want to be leadg this natn, ” he said on "Meet the Prs" Jabson, an openly-gay member of the D. 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. “I actually met Mayor Pete Buttigieg shortly after I was elected mayor 2015, ” Wojahn, who is gay, told the Washgton Bla, an LGBT-foced news outlet, back 2019.

PIVOTAL MOMENTS GAY POLIL HISTORY

Wojahn explaed how the former South Bend, Ind., mayor, who is also gay, was tasked wh beg his “buddy” at a gatherg of mayors Washgton long before Buttigieg’s 2020 Whe Hoe n.

“I now serve a learship role as vice chair of cy livabily and bicyclg part due to his mentorship, ” Wojahn said of Buttigieg, addg that they would discs the challeng of beg openly gay mayors.

BUTTIGIEG HBAND REC LGBTQ 'PLEDGE' WH GAY YOUTH MP VIRAL VIO

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MAYOR PETE IS PLENTY GAY

"This is the only chance you'll ever get to vote for a Malte Amerin, left-hand, Epispalian, gay, war veteran, mayor, lennial, " Buttigieg, 39, says a scene om the film, addg a few more labels.

Runng for print as an openly gay ndidate has s challeng but the film will give viewers a peek to nversatns between Buttigieg and his hband about facg them head on. Harvard UniversyTHE LONG RUNAnd why took him until he was 33 to e Buttigieg as a senr at Harvard UniversyJuly 14, 2019The closet that Pete Buttigieg built for himself the late 1990s and 2000s was a lot like the on that other gay men of his age and ambn hid si. Buttigieg’s class, relled that “ was still a time where volizg anti-gay sentiments was not only mon, but I thk pretty accepted.

”The thought that 15 years later someone they might have shared a dorm or sat a lecture hall wh would bee the first ser openly gay ndidate for print of the Uned Stat never crossed their mds. But no one would have found the possibily more implsible than the young man everyone on mp knew as Buttigieg, now the mayor of South Bend, Ind., stggled for a after leavg Harvard to overe the fear that beg gay was “a reer ath sentence, ” as he put his his generatn and his llege class cid to e out as young adults, whether they were nfint they would be accepted or not, and had their 20s to navigate beg open about their inty — a procs that helped make Amerins more aware and acceptg of their gay iends, fay members and -workers.