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What He’s Contributed: Buttigieg has emerged as a top-tier presidential candidate, putting to rest the canard that voters aren’t ready for a gay president, let alone a happily married one. Audiences love his thoughtfulness, and he’s not afraid to throw some shade at anti-LGBTQ right, especially fellow Hoosier Mike Pence. Why We’re Proud: Buttigieg is reshaping the Democratic party and American politics. He’s reframed the political debate in a way that breaks with the past and reclaims themes that Democrats have long ceded to Republicans, like religion. In a field dominated by focus-grouped personas, Buttigieg stands out as a breath of fresh air. Buttigieg has long been identified as one of the Democrats’ rising stars, but no one would have predicted that he would burst onto the national scene with quite this much momentum. He has shattered expectations, not just because he is gay but also because of his age and his current position. Being mayor of a small city isn’t generally the express route to the White House. But Buttigieg has proven himself to be an exception to all the rules. In some ways, Buttigieg’s resume looks like it belongs to someone building up to a presidential run. He attended Harvard, was named a Rhodes Scholar and spent time at Oxford. He worked on several campaigns and at the global management consulting firm, McKinsey and Company. Unlike almost all the other presidential candidates, not to mention the draft-dodging president, Buttigieg is also a military veteran. He served as an intelligence officer in the Navy Reserves and spent seven months in Afghanistan. He’s also ridiculously smart, but he wears his intelligence lightly. He once taught himself Norwegian so he could read a Norwegian novelist. Buttigieg has always displayed a politically ambitious streak. His first run for office was in his native Indiana in 2010, when he made a failed bid to come state treasurer. The following year, he was elected mayor of his hometown, South Bend, where he quickly attracted the attention of the national press. In 2014, The Washington Post called him “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of.” Buttigieg handily won re-election in 2015, but with one twist: for Pride month that year, he wrote a newspaper column in which he came out. “I was well into adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay,” he wrote. “It took years of struggle and growth for me to recognize that it’s just a fact of life, like having brown hair, and part of who I am. Putting something this personal on the pages of a newspaper does not come easy.” Whatever reservations Buttigieg may have had, he’s gotten over them. On the campaign trail he talks eloquently about the importance of his marriage. He’s appeared on the cover of Time with his husband, Chasten, and driven the religious right crazy by talking about how his marriage is an extension of his faith. (He’s an Episcopalian.) In short, Buttigieg is a natural. He knows just how to criticize the President without coming across as obsessed with him (as Trump wants). His response to a question about Trump’s tweets–“I don’t care”– diminished Trump and hit Trump right in his ego while winning him laughter and applause from a Fox News audience of all places. But Buttigieg has been especially good at calling out Mike Pence–whom he knows from Pence’s time as governor–for the hypocrite he is. Buttigieg wrote the perfect political epitaph for Pence, calling him a “cheerleader for the porn star presidency.” He’s obviously gotten under Pence’s skin because the normally placid vice president can’t stop complaining in his ineffectual way about Buttigieg. Similarly, other religious right figures are beside themselves that Buttigieg is successfully challenging their distinctly un-Christian values. Whether Buttigieg has staying power as a presidential candidate remains to be seen. The field is crowded, and Buttigieg has some obstacles to overcome, notably his lack of connection–so far–with African-American voters. However, Buttigieg has plenty of election cycles ahead of him. Meantime, he can enjoy this year’s pride as a political star. But it will never top last year’s. That’s when he married Chasten and then went to the local pride festivities to celebrate their marriage.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg's Unlikely, Untested, Unprecedented Presidential Campaign (Time Magazine - May 13) By Charlotte Alter/South Bend Very good Time Magazine article http://time.com/longform/pete-buttigieg-2020/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-brief-buttigieg& utm_content=2019050411am

He’s the Obama-style boy-from-nowhere with charisma and the potential to become the first openly gay president of the United States Of America. But who is Pete Buttigieg? Hollywood’s most powerful and fabulous homos are mobilised; the eyes of the LGBTIQ+ world are upon him; and Trump-loving, right-wing TV network Fox News is shitting its pants. This is the impact of Pete Buttigieg (pronounced boot-edge-edge): a handsome, young gay man from a little-known mid-Western state who has announced he’s going to run for President of the United States Of America in 2020. If he becomes the Democratic nominee, he’ll be standing against President Trump: a man revered by redneck, racist, white supremacist, misogynistic homophobes as a god, even while the rest of the world considers him somewhere on a sliding scale between clown and catastrophe. Buttigieg launched his presidential bid by directly butt-kicking everything that Trump stands for. So far, it’s his charming, boy-next-door all-Americanness and erudite eloquence that has shone through. At just 37, his wise-head-on-young-shoulders made noises about real change for a new generation. The next generation. Change. Sound familiar? One of President Obama’s enduring campaign slogans was “change we can believe in”. The other was “yes, we can”. The last ten years have certainly changed the face of US politics. Obama was hotter than the average president and a generally decent guy. And he was the black. What’s more, the American electorate were smart enough to not be spooked by a surname sounding like Osama or the middle name Hussein or Donald Trump’s efforts to depict him as a scary Muslim and not even American. But has the road been paved for a minority citizen to become Commander-in-Chief? Is Buttigieg change we can believe in? Can a thirty-something gay man really say yes he can? Witnessing Buttigieg’s candidacy develop has been electrifying. He’s a married man. He met high school teacher Chasten Gelzman via an app in 2015 and married him three years later. They have two dogs, Truman and Buddy. It’s all picture-perfect cute. His résumé reads like something you or I might invent to bag ourselves an out-of-reach job: he’s a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and a graduate of Harvard University; he has served as a lieutenant in the US Navy Reserve and took an unpaid, seven-month leave during his mayoral term to deploy to Afghanistan. He earned the Joint Service Commendation Medal for his counterterrorism work. He was elected Mayor of his hometown of South Bend, Indiana in 2011 aged just 29 and re-elected in 2015 with 80 percent of the vote, positively transforming both the local economy and its prospects in the process. He campaigned to ensure every resident of South Bend, “regardless of race, religion, gender or orientation” felt safe and included. He already has more years of government experience than Donald Trump, more years of executive government experience than Vice President Mike Pence, and more military experience than anybody to walk into the Oval Office since President George HW Bush. If that wasn’t enough, Buttigieg can speak seven languages, play piano and guitar, and generally do everything that’s simultaneously irritating and admirable at the same time. He came out in his twenties, found closeted army life difficult, and wishes his fellow Americans would learn to trust and accept people from different backgrounds, such as gay men. It’s all sounded a bit vanilla, but then to the meaty stuff: how will a gay president exert moral authority in countries where it’s illegal to be gay? Whether you want America to be the undisputed global headmaster or not is a different discussion, but Buttigieg’s response is intrinsically sound: he’s on a mission to make gay men more credible in the political arena, so that we are taken more seriously as human beings around the world; so that leaders like the Sultan Of Brunei or Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad Bin Salman or Russia’s Vladimir Putin would be confronted and condemned by a powerhouse homosexual. And we haven’t even spoken about the fact that he’s a practicing Christian… After Buttigieg’s town-hall address in April – a tradition where American politicians are granted a platform to reveal standpoints and views – CNN’s Anderson Cooper (himself a handsome, gay, married man) told viewers that Buttigieg is hot on character information but notably short on policy specifics. Indeed, even Buttigieg has said, “I think it’s important that we not drown people in minutiae before we’ve vindicated the values that animate our policies,” during his speech. One thing is clear: the road to the 3 November 2020 presidential election is going to be a rocky one, made all the more fascinating by Pete Buttigieg. Article from DNA News and Features by Torsetn Hojer.

Speaking at a rally on Sunday, Pete Buttigieg announced his campaign for the White House. The 37-year-old is the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, a Democrat and an openly gay Christian married to husband Chasten.