Tag: Pete Buttigieg

A former Indiana lawmaker said that he doesn’t believe that South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg would make a good president because gay men die young and Buttigieg will therefore die while in office. Obviously, the claim is untrue. Don Boys, a former member of the Indiana House and an evangelist who wrote a book entitled Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning!, wrote a blog post entitled “Pete, Since You Brought it Up, How ‘Gay’ Are You?” Such a defensive title suggests...

Chasten Buttigieg has become a Twitter phenomenon since his husband, South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg, announced his candidacy for president. While Mayor Pete has deservedly been the focus, Chasten’s upbeat quips and stories from the campaign trail plus his tendency to share details of the couple’s home life have made him the most popular would-be First Spouse. Over the weekend, Buttigieg, a junior high school teacher, posted a short thread to Twitter that should be required reading for adults....

Not content to allow Mayor Pete Buttigieg to win over a Fox News townhall crowd, the network has slammed the South Bend, IN mayor as a “clown.” Buttigieg won big at a Fox News townhall meeting over the weekend, earning applause and cheers from the crowd for his candid remarks about abortion and immigration. He also called out Fox News personalities Laura Ingram and Tucker Carlson for their own anti-immigration remarks. That didn’t sit well with the hosts of Fox & Friends,...

Pete Buttgieg completely won over the room during a town hall hosted by Chris Wallace on Fox News last night. Prior to Mayor Pete’s appearance, Donald Trump took to Twitter to slam the network for “wasting airtime” on the out gay candidate. Asked by Wallace about what he thinks of Trump’s tweets, Buttigieg simply responded: “I don’t care.” To which the audience responded with thunderous applause. “It is a very effective way to command the attention of the media,” he continued. “We...

This just in: Fox News propagandist Laura Ingraham can dish it out but she definitely cannot take it. The 55-year-old TV anchor ripped into 2020 hopeful Pete Buttigieg on her show last night after he took a swipe at her during his Fox News town hall on Sunday evening. It all started when Buttigieg told Chris Wallace that he had to give it serious thought before agreeing to appear on the conservative news network. “You know a lot of folks in my party...

The new issue of TIME Magazine features Democratic presidential contender Mayor Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, with the caption “First Family: The unlikely, untested and unprecedented campaign of Mayor Pete Buttigieg.” The Buttigieg’s are the first gay couple to pose for the cover of the magazine since a 2013 issue that focused on marriage equality. Although it’s early in the Democratic primary season – there hasn’t even been a debate yet – folks are finding themselves drawn to one candidate or...

The relationship app is 'designed to be deleted' The first openly-LGBTI candidate in the 2020 US presidential race, Pete Buttigieg, has revealed he met his husband Chasten Glezman on dating app Hinge. The mayor of South Bend called the relationship app a ‘very millennial thing’ on CNN’s Van Jones show. Hinge uses Facebook to facilitate connections and prompts users to continue conversations. It takes the slogan ‘designed to be deleted’. ‘I saw this light, something in his eyes’ Buttigieg said of his now-husband....

"I realized that you only get to be one person." Pete Buttigieg sat down with Rachel Maddow for a wide ranging interview, including opening up about how difficult it was to be closeted and what it took for him to come out. Buttigieg came out in 2015, while serving as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, a position he still holds today. Maddow noted that she had come out while still in college, becoming the first openly gay American Rhodes Scholar. She...

The religious right is upset that out presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has taken the nation by storm. Evangelical leaders are claiming the small town Indiana mayor isn’t actually a Christian because he is gay. They’re particularly perturbed he’s had the temerity to challenge holier-than-thou Vice President Pence’s conservative brand of evangelical Christianity and President Donald Trump’s lack of “Christian values” despite being embraced by the religious right. Buttigieg has made it a point to mention his faith during his media appearances...

Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg sat down with Van Jones over at CNN over the weekend for an interview, during which he spoke about his husband, Chasten. Since announcing his candidacy in January, Buttigieg has gone from a small town mayor of South Bend, Indiana to a national political figure, and raised an impressive $7 million along the way. Asked how his husband Chasten is dealing with Pete’s newfound notoriety, the 2020 hopeful replies: “He’s pretty good at rolling with it,...

South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced his engagement on social media. On Thursday, Buttigieg announced through Facebook that he’s gotten engaged to his partner Chasten Glezman. Buttigieg and Glezmen, who’s a school teacher, announced their excitement for their future together. On top of that, Buttgieg is an openly gay politician who’s on the rise. He came out in an essay in 2015 where he confessed its been hard for him to accept his sexuality. “Like most people, I would like to get...