Mayor Pete Buttigieg found love on hinge just like the rest of us.
on his feelings. “Taking a word like gay and applying it to myself, I was still years away from being able to do that, even in my own mind,” he says, adding that he “packed up” his feelings because for a young kid growing up in Indiana, there was no representation that it was okay to be gay. “There were not a lot of out gay people — in high school there were exactly zero. There was just no sense of gay life or community,” he says.
of a city of 100,000 or more people — and he won the election with a 74% majority vote. Taking office in 2012, he still wasn’t open about his sexuality, and didn’t come to terms with publicizing it until he was deployed to Afghanistan until 2014. According to his interview, that’s when he realized how “untenable the situation was,” and felt he needed to come to terms with his identity in a more public way. “I wasn’t coming back to a family.
Now, Buttigieg hopes to make history again as the first elected gay president in the United States. He is the current Iowa frontrunner, though if polls can tell us anything so far it’s that everything inis temporary. But Buttigieg’s shot at winning, getting himself this far in the race, and even the word frontrunner placed before his name, is historic in and of itself.
“One of the things I’m seeing now, especially in the interactions I have on the campaign trail and the fact that this campaign is historic in a lot of ways is that this same fact that I thought would mean never getting to this point might actually be one of the things that makes it matter the most,” Buttigieg says.
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