Pete gay
If I am going to talk about surprise presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, I am going to hold to talk about encounter my boyfriend on Grindr. Let me explain. Buttigieg is the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, a small city best recognizable for its proximity to the University of Notre Dame. Grindr is a so-called hook-up app, a chat-cum-geolocation service that tells you how many top shots from five years ago and torso shots from ten years ago are close by. Buttigieg and Grindr are both gay, and both corny, but therein the similarities seem to end.
There is a certain kind of gay guy. He is very likely white. He would say that he is in his “mid-thirties,” although he is much closer to the conclude than to the commencement of his last credibly young decade. Older women think he is handsome; younger men are not so sure. He is a professional of some kind — not ostentatiously wealthy, but comfortable enough to take the occasional ski trip in Colorado or spring vacation in Spain. He probably enjoys “the theater.” He is sure to mention at some point that he likes to read.
He will probably tell you a joke about how he “met his future spouse” on “an a
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As Pete Buttigieg rises in the polls in early caucus and primary states appreciate Iowa and New Hampshire, criticism of the candidate has mounted, particularly around his personality. Since entering the field, initial appreciation for the South Curve, Indiana, mayor’s relative youth and rolled-sleeves Midwestern force has given way to a sense in certain incredulous quarters that he is robotic, overly polished, McKinsey-calculating, somehow fake. A related discontent has emerged in
Secretary Pete Buttigieg Makes History As First Openly LGBTQ, Senate-Confirmed Person to Lead a Department
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The U.S. Senate in a historic and overwhelmingly bipartisan vote confirmed Pete Buttigieg to be Secretary of Transportation. He is the first openly LGBTQ, Secretary or Senate-confirmed person to lead a department and hold a Cabinet-level position.
Congratulations to Secretary Pete Buttigieg on his historic affirmation. This confirmation breaks through a barrier that has existed for too long; where LGBTQ identity served as an impediment to nomination or confirmation at the highest level of government. Let this crucial moment for our movement serve as a reminder to every LGBTQ little person: you too can serve your country in any capacity you acquire the qualifications to maintain . President Biden promised to deliver an administration delegate of the diversity of this nation, and this confirmation is a significant achievement toward that purpose. I look forward to working with Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the entire Biden cabi
By now, you’ve heard of Pete Buttigieg, one of the frontrunners in the Democratic primary. News flash: he’s gay. And he may become our next president.
The former South Flex, Ind. mayor isn’t just gay as a matter-of-fact. His homosexuality, along with his religious faith and military service, are defining features of the tough-talking democratic moderate’s persona.
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Like most of the nation, I first became conscious of him back in April, days before officially announcing his candidacy. It was then that he eloquently spoke about his coming out journey at the Victory Fund’s annual brunch. “If you could have offered me a pill that could create me straight, I would have swallowed it before you could give me a swig of water,” Buttigieg said to a room filled with Washington’s gay elite. “It’s a hard thing to reflect about now. If you had shown me exactly what it was that made me gay, I would have cut it out with a knife.”
To much fanfare, he called out our vice president’s extreme views on homosexuality stating that if Mike Pence had “a challenge with who I am, your problem is not with me – your quarrel, sir, is with my c
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