'Queerness that does not deviate from the mainstream but reinforces it.' What Pete and Chasten showed us.
last year. The photo on that issue’s cover—two white men in brown-belted business casual—said as much without words. Chasten smirked while Pete looked on with a presidential seriousness: he was, after all, the first openly gay man to be a serious contender for the commander in chief of his country. Were it not for the placement of their arms on each other’s backs, they could have been two bros who launched a start-up together.
Pete’s importance wasn’t lost on his first gentleman in waiting, either. “It’s just so important to go out there and do a good job right now,” Chasten said in a 2019. “Because for the first time in many people’s lives, they see someone on a national scale that makes them say, ‘Oh, that’s me, too.’ ” “Before going overseas, I had felt comfortable being more than one person, as we all sometimes must, according to the roles we are called to play,” he writes in his 2019 memoirIt’s an idealized place I’ve never visited, but that I suppose could exist.Buttigieg’s life and humanity, which necessarily includes that of Chasten, appears to have been painstakingly packaged for public consumption.
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