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