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Pete Buttigieg
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an American politician and Afghanistan War veteran. He served as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020 and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election.
Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University, attending the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship. He was a consultant at the management consulting firm McKinsey from 2007 to 2010. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant. He was mobilized and deployed to Afghanistan for seven months in 2014.
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Chasten Buttigieg Recalls The Time He Was Outed At Work: “Is It True You’re A F*g?”
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Chasten Buttigieg, the outspoken husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, shared on Twitter the absolute terror he felt when publicly confronted about his sexuality by a supervisor at work.
His story inspired many of his followers to share their own frightening stories of having to choose between keeping their job or staying in the closet.
Buttigieg noted that in many states, at the time, it would have been legal for his employer to fire him for being LGBTQ+, and he used the experience to call for passage of the Equality Act.
Buttigieg, who worked as a theatre teacher in public schools prior to his husband’s political career, recalled in a tweet: “I’ll never forget when an assistant manager found out I was gay in the break
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