Pete Buttigieg is — Still — Not the Gay Candidate I Want

Talk Queerly: an occasional column on LGBTQ culture & politics

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, launched his presidential campaign on January 23rd of 2019. Buttigieg is the first openly gay candidate to run for the Democratic presidential nomination (Fred Karger ran for the Republican nomination in 2012). “Mayor…