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As Pete Buttigieg, secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT), continues his push for broader adoption of electric vehicle use, he was again targeted with homophobic attacks online.  

Pete Buttigieg.Meshawn Maddock is the co-chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party. She’s also the wife of State Rep.

LGBTQ Nation’s 2022 Political Hero are Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Levine, who became the first out transgender four-star admiral and spoke out for trans health care access; Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who scored a major win for LGBTQ protections in her state and stood up to Don’t Say Gay; California state Rep. Scott Wiener, who helped martial several pieces of pro-LGBTQ legislation through the legislature; Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who went full gay dad and stood up for the rights of the kids of LGBTQ people to speak about their families in schools; and Urbandale, Iowa School Board member Daniel Gutmann, who stood up to a candidate backed by the anti-LGBTQ organization Moms for Liberty and won.These five LGBTQ people were elected or appointed to serve, and did so with distinction.

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On Saturday, a Customs and Border Protection employee used an official Twitter account for the agency's West Texas division to promote homophobic and political content. The organization's commissioner says CPB will deactivate the account, and he has opened an investigation.“U.S.

On Sunday, Meshawn Maddock, the co-chair of Michigan's Republican party took to Twitter to attack United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. Maddock's tweet was in response to a recent interview Buttigieg had done about the shift away from gas-powered vehicles."We're so blessed this weak little girl moved to Michigan!" Maddock wrote.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten celebrated their twins' birthday recently with a crowded soiree, the former mayor and presidential candidate told James Corden during an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden that aired after midnight Thursday."Our son Joseph — we call him Gus — our daughter, Penelope; they just turned one year old, and it's just the best thing in the world," Buttigieg told Corden to cheers and applause from the studio audience.He explained that Chasten, 33, had planned a party for the kids that featured "more guests than we could fit in the house, so we opened up our garage...put the tables out there...turned the driveway into a little zone for the party."To see how the toddlers would react to their first experience with cake, the Buttigiegs bought them tiny smash cakes.The twins understood the assignment."We have a photo of them experiencing cake for the first time, and it looks like they are absolutely loving it," Corden said.Corden revealed, to loud "awws," photos of Gus and Penelope absolutely covered in cake with absolutely no care in the world.The proud father of two, Buttigieg, 40, said he thinks Gus is thinking at the moment that photos captured, "I've gotta think he's thinkin' I hope this is what being one year old is all about.

In a new piece written on his Medium account, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg details how he became a father. Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, first announced they were first set to become fathers in August 2021.

A Florida teen who made headlines this spring as the first openly gay president of his school and who is suing the DeSantis administration for its "don't say gay" law received some encouragement from a man in the Biden administration who is also known for his firsts.Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg sent a heartfelt thank you and message of inspiration to Zander Moricz, the Florida teen who went viral for his graduation speech in which he spoke of his curly hair instead of using the word gay, to highlight the ridiculousness of the state's anti-LGBTQ+ law."After Chasten and I saw your graduation speech earlier this year and heard about your appearance at the Department of Education, I wanted to be sure to personally thank you for your voice and advocacy. Your combination of wit and courage has reverberated across the country in ways that will benefit people you'll never even meet," Buttigieg wrote.Buttigieg says that he's aware that his position as the first out gay cabinet secretary rests upon the work of those who came before him, "and there is no doubt that your example will open doors for many others who now look up to you, even as you are just starting your path forward following your graduation."Moricz tweeted a photo of the letter with the caption, "Thank you@PeteButtigieg.

GOP Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania said — through a spokesperson — he was “thrilled to attend and celebrate” his gay son’s wedding on Friday.

The House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act last week, which would protect marriage equality from the whims of the justices on the now-ultraconservative United States Supreme Court. If it passes in the Senate and goes to President Joe Biden, the bill will be historic, ensuring that marriage equality, which the Supreme Court enshrined into federal law in 2015, cannot be revoked. Republicans, however, have been pushing back on the measure, and one voted against it despite having a gay child.A few days after voting against the measure, however, U.S.

Last week we learned the very relatable (and hilarious) way John Osborne found out his brother, T.J., was gay.The country stars make up the group The Brothers Osborne, and besides the embarrassing reveal, we also caught a glimpse of how great an ally John is.The bros have been vocal about the current right-wing push to revisit gay marriage rights in the wake of Clarence Thomas’ now-infamous concurring opinion when the Court struck down Roe, and they’re not backing down.After re-tweeting one message that states country and bluegrass performer Clarence White was greater than Clarence Thomas (fact)…Clarence White > Clarence Thomas— Sadler Vaden (@SadlerVaden) July 1, 2022…and another from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticizing the 157 House Republicans who voted against the Respect of Marriage Act that came next…It’s 2022, and 157 House Republicans just voted against marriage equality.That’s where they come down on this issue. In 2022.— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) July 19, 2022…it was obvious where John and T.J. stood on the issues.Related: Country crooner TJ Osborne on the unexpected response to his coming outBut poor ‘ole Todd was triggered by the brothers’ show of human decency.

US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized Republicans’ dismissal of the importance of a bill codifying the legality of same-sex marriage Sunday, as Democrats search for enough Republican support in the Senate to pass the bill all the way through Congress. After the US House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act in the […]

US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized Republicans’ dismissal of the importance of a bill codifying the legality of same-sex marriage Sunday, as Democrats search for enough Republican support in the Senate to pass the bill all the way through Congress. After the US House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act in the […]

@PeteButtigieg reacts to some GOP senators saying they will vote against a bill that is meant to codify protections for same-sex marriage. @CNNSotu #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/Le9OSepeW6— CNN (@CNN) July 24, 2022Related: Marco Rubio says he knows what’s upsetting the gays, and it’s not marriage rightsButtigieg, who is gay and married, responded, “If [Rubio’s] got time to fight against Disney, I don’t know why he wouldn’t have time to help safeguard marriages like mine — look, this is really, really important to a lot of people.

Pete Buttigieg on Sunday criticized Republicans, including Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who are against codifying protections for same-sex marriages."I depend on and count on my spouse every day, and our marriage deserves to be treated equally. And I don't know why this would be hard for a senator or a congressman," Buttigieg, the first openly gay U.S.

He told Punchbowl News reporter Christian Hall yesterday that the bill addressed a “non-issue” and there was no need to take steps to protect same-sex marriage.“I don’t know why we’re doing that bill, there’s no threat to its status in America.“But I know plenty of gay people in Florida that are pissed off about gas prices,” he added.CNN’s Manu Raju also asked him about it. Republican Rubio told him the legislation was a “stupid waste of time.”Marco Rubio told me that he is a NO on House’s same-sex marriage bill, calling it a “stupid waste of time”— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 20, 2022The House vote came about after the Supreme Court decided last month to overturn Roe v Wade, sending the issue of abortion back to individual states.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg sparred with a Republican after he asked whether the Cabinet had considered removing president Joe Biden via the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice president and senior officials to strip the president of office if the president cannot fulfill their duties. House Transportation Committee members heard from Buttigieg on Tuesday about several infrastructure topics, but the hearing took a turn when Texas Rep.

July 19, 2022That tweet has had over 160k likes and tens of thousands of retweets.Related: Pete Buttigieg schools Fox New Reporter with perfect response to questionThis tweet contains a list of all those who voted against the legislation.Here are the 157 Republican no votes on Marriage Equality pic.twitter.com/XDBFc8wdCX— Acyn (@Acyn) July 19, 2022It includes the usual suspects, such as Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Madison Cathorn, and Matt Gaetz. Many of them, talking during the House debate or to the press, stopped short of saying gay people should not be allowed to marry, but argued they believed that, like abortion, it’s correct to send the issue back to individuals states to decide.GOP Rep.

Church Militant, a far-right Catholic group and website, and a subsequent investigation by The Daily Beast. “Two of [Peterson’s] former male associates came out in June with on-the-record interviews saying they engaged in sexual activities with him, while other men say he propositioned them,” the Beast reports.

TMZ the actor was one of many celebrities who supported Buttigieg, now the Transportation Secretary, in his bid to win the Democratic nomination in the run-up to the 2020 Presidential election.Related: Pete Buttigieg schools Fox New Reporter with perfect response to questionShe says that DiCaprio attended a private fundraising event for Buttigieg in October 2019. Also in attendance were ​​Paris Hilton, Ashton Kutcher, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom.DiCaprio made an offer to give Buttigieg some coaching tips on public speaking ahead of a forthcoming, live TV debate.Smith says that some of the celebs, such as Hilton, posed for selfies with Buttigieg.

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After Justice Brett Kavanaugh fled abortion rights protesters outside a restaurant in D.C. on Wednesday, Chasten Buttigieg shared his viewpoints via Twitter on Friday, leading to Secretary Pete Buttigieg defending his husband's words on Fox News Sunday."Sounds like he just wanted some privacy to make his own dining decisions," Chasten Buttigieg wrote, alluding to Kavanaugh's recent vote to overturn Roe v.

Related: Brett Kavanaugh forced to skip dessert, flee out the backdoor of steakhouse to avoid protestersChasten tweeted the story, saying, “Sounds like he just wanted some privacy to make his own dining decisions.” This was a shot at Kavanaugh’s role in voting to revoke the Roe vs. Wade ruling on abortion, thus removing the right of many women to make their own reproductive health decisions.Emanuel highlighted Chasten’s words and asked Pete if he thought the tweet was “appropriate.”Watch below what happened.

July 3, 2022 “There was just a mass shooting in Denmark, a country with some of the strictest gun laws in Europe,” Boebert tweeted. “It’s time to admit that gun laws DO NOT stop mass shootings!”For context, what happened in Denmark yesterday was the worst gun attack in the country since February 2015, when a 22-year-old man was killed in a shootout with police after going on a shooting spree that left two people dead and five officers injured. The country has not had a school shooting since 1994.Related: Lauren Boebert has no shame and this letter to Pete Buttigieg proves itOnline, many reacted to Boebert’s tweet with some hard facts.First one in Denmark this year.

Vice President Kamala Harris made history on Tuesday evening by hosting the first LGBTQ+ Pride Month reception as a sitting vice president at her residence. Her home at the Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington, D.C., was a warm welcome for LGBTQ+ community members and friends.About 190 LGBTQ+ advocates, leaders, and allies attended the closed press event, including transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay cabinet member; interior secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American cabinet secretary; and Jessica Stern, the State Department's special envoy for LGBTQ+ rights.Like other Pride events since last week's Supreme Court decision on Roe v.

21st Century President Act, now officially allows women and LGBTQ+ people to become president. The bill was passed by a voice vote.The same bill passed the House in the last Congress by a voice vote as well, the Hill reports.Tuesday's vote targeted part of the U.S. code that concerns threats to presidents, former presidents, and their "immediate family." The issue is that the code defines immediate family as “the wife of a former President during his lifetime, the widow of a former President until her death or remarriage, and minor children of a former President until they reach sixteen years of age.”The bill now strikes that wording and changes it to, “the spouse of a former President during a former President’s lifetime, the surviving spouse of a former President until the surviving 10 spouse’s death or remarriage.”The outlet notes that Hillary Clinton was the first woman presidential candidate of a major party, that Pete Buttigieg was a leading democratic candidate in the 2020 election, and that Kamala Harris became the first woman vice president with a second man.

she said, “On this Father’s Day, I want to send out a shoutout of gratitude to all the dads across America!”Related: Chasten Buttigieg shames troll in the most Chasten way possibleChasten, husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, thought it a good time to remind Boebert of how she’d mocked Pete’s parenting skills when they became new dads.He re-posted her tweet and responded, “Our two-month-old son was on a ventilator at the children’s hospital when you attacked my husband for being with his family. I watched him take calls and Zooms from our hospital room all day, managing crisis after crisis while our son’s heart monitor beeped in the background.”Our two-month-old son was on a ventilator at the children’s hospital when you attacked my husband for being with his family.

criticized Pete Buttigieg for taking parental leave, saying, “The guy was not working! Because why? He was trying to figure out how to chest feed,” lampooning trans as well as gay people. Boebert and other right-wingers tend to laud stereotypically gendered parental roles; a typical argument from opponents of marriage equality was that children needed a mother and a father, never two parents of the same gender.Just last week, Boebert put aside her disdain for the secretary, the first out Senate-confirmed Cabinet member,  and wrote a letter to him seeking a Department of Transportation grant for bridge construction in her district, even though she opposed President Biden’s infrastructure legislation, which established funding for the grant program.Both Buttigiegs have shown expertise in taking on homophobes.

wrote last week to Buttigieg requesting $33.1 million through the Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program for a bridge in Glenwood Springs, Colo.“With Rural Surface Transportation grant funds, Glenwood Springs will construct a new bridge connection that will provide a critical second emergency route/evacuation access between State Highway 82 and the western side of the Roaring Fork River in the City’s South Corridor,” she wrote.Congress passed the infrastructure bill in late 2021 and Biden quickly signed it into law. Boebert opposed the bill, calling it “wasteful” and “garbage,” and she said the Republicans who supported it were “RINOS,” that is, Republicans in name only.She had criticized Buttigieg for taking parental leave when he and his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, welcomed twin babies last year.

letter last week to Transportation Secretary Buttigieg requesting $33million to support the South Bridge Project in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.Yes, the same Pete Buttigieg whom she mocked a few months ago when he became a dad to twins. Boebert posted a video in which she lambasted Buttigieg for taking paternity leave, joking that he was trying to learn how to “chest feed” his kids.Related: Lauren Boebert attacks Pete Buttigieg over taking paternity leaveIn her letter, Boebert said, “Glenwood Springs will construct a new bridge connection that will provide a critical second emergency route/evacuation access between State Highway 82 and the western side of the Roaring Fork River in the City’s South Corridor.”She says she believes the project, “aligns with the Rural Surface Transportation program’s goals to improve and expand the surface transportation infrastructure in rural areas.”She signed it off by saying, “I respectfully urge your full and fair consideration of this competitive grant application.”In an email to the Durango Herald, Boebert saw no contradiction in her request for federal funding for the new bridge after slamming the Infrastructure bill.

President Joe Biden issued an executive order Wednesday to counter what he called discriminatory legislative attacks on the LGBTQ+ community by Republican-controlled states.

President Joe Biden will host an LGBTQ Pride Month celebration in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday, focusing on LGBTQIA children and families, and will sign a “historic” executive order to protect them and the LGBTQIA community.

Patron saint of dumb ideas Ted Cruz is getting a taste of his own medicine on Twitter this week.Cruz apparently thinks the recent threat on Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s life was inspired by “deranged rhetoric” from the left. This is being responded to online by people mockingly attributing the threat to the same thing Cruz attributed the Uvalde shooting to last month: Kavanaugh must have too many doors.Related: Pete Buttigieg slams Ted Cruz’s obsession with doors in the wake of school shootingContext: In the days following the Uvalde shooting, Cruz’ team cooked up the brilliant idea of blaming the tragedy on the school having more than one entry point.Sen.

https://t.co/f8qA6YRI8I— Chasten Buttigieg (@Chasten) April 4, 2022On Monday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten shared details about their twins’ first day in daycare.While Pete Buttigieg mentioned all “the bottles… little jars of baby food… spoons” and everything else that parents rely on to raise kids, Chasten Buttigieg merely tweeted, “If anyone saw me walking around Target looking a little confused and sad earlier today now you know.”Of course, Pete and Chasten Buttigieg are just one of several famous gay couples raising kids.The actor couple’s twins — a son named Gideon and a daughter named Harper — were born via surrogate in October 2010.“We live up in Harlem so they see a ton of stuff, and they’re exposed to stuff at a young age,” Burka said in an Us magazine interview.

Pete Buttigieg and Rachel Levine are among the 963 American individuals permanently banned from entering Russia.

Ukraine continues to strengthen, Russia has permanently banned 963 well-known American citizens from entering the country. On Saturday, the “Russian black list” was released as a response to “the hostile actions taken by Washington,” according to the Russian Foreign Ministry and reported by The Washington Post.The list includes President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, trans Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, and all LGBTQ+ members of the House of Representatives — Reps. Mark Takano, Sharice Davids, Mondaire Jones, Chris Pappas, David Cicilline, Sean Patrick Maloney, Mark Pocan, Angie Craig and Ritchie Torres.Out U.S. Sens.

Pete Buttigieg has joined parents — queer and not — across the country who are feeling the effects of the shortage of baby formula.“This is very personal for us,” Buttigieg said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “We’ve got two 9-month-old children — baby formula is a very big part of our lives.”The shortage is related to supply chain disruptions from the pandemic, an issue that worsened the already low formula supply, according to The Washington Post. Then, there was a major recall in February.It’s caused parents to scramble to find food for their infant children.Buttigieg added that he and his husband Chasten have been looking online and looking through stores trying to find formula for their infants.

The group responsible for sharing that explicit video of Madison Cawthorn face-humping his cousin says it’s turning its sights towards Lauren Boebert next.“I think we’re gonna go after Lauren Boebert in Colorado in a similar way,” David B. Wheeler, cofounder of the American Muckrakers PAC, tells Insider.

Pete Buttigieg took the GOP to task over its focus on reigniting culture wars over LGBTQ+ rights.In a clip shared on social media, Buttigieg tells the audience, “there's a more superficial political pattern that I think has driven some of the politics of the behavior of people like these people in Florida that don't say gay… that is when all you have is a hammer everything starts to look like a culture war.”He continued that Republicans have concentrated on queer lives because they have nothing substantive to contribute policy-wise to alleviate concerns held by Americans when it comes to prescription drug prices, gas, childcare, and more.“You got a political faction that really doesn't have a lot of answers for many of the questions that people are wrestling with,” Buttigieg says.

Mean Girls alum Jonathan Bennett and cohosted by his husband, TV host Jaymes Vaughn.The podcast, appropriately named Pridecast, is a new iHeart Radio project in collaboration with Los Angeles Pride. The series is here to expand Pride from just being a singular event or month to something year-round that people can find comfort and support in.The show pulls inspiration from the LGBTQ+ community, sharing impactful stories to educate and inspire; it’s not a show where celebrities come only to talk about their latest projects, according to Bennett and Vaughn.“We just really wanted to find a place for the LGBTQI+ community to come and just be celebrated and empowered,” Bennett tells The Advocate.Vaughn says that in the world today, while we need to keep informed about the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation being passed and other similar news, there also needs to be support and encouragement.

Mean Girls alum Jonathan Bennett and cohosted by his husband, TV host Jaymes Vaughn.The podcast, appropriately named Pridecast, is a new iHeart Radio project in collaboration with Los Angeles Pride. The series is here to expand Pride from just being a singular event or month to something year-round that people can find comfort and support in.The show pulls inspiration from the LGBTQ+ community, sharing impactful stories to educate and inspire; it’s not a show where celebrities come only to talk about their latest projects, according to Bennett and Vaughn.“We just really wanted to find a place for the LGBTQI+ community to come and just be celebrated and empowered,” Bennett tells The Advocate.Vaughn says that in the world today, while we need to keep informed about the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation being passed and other similar news, there also needs to be support and encouragement.

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Katherine Deves, the Liberal candidate for Warringah, described surrogacy as “a human rights violation” and “a vanity project” in now-deleted tweets. Deves, who is also the co-founder of Save Women’s Sport, was responding to a post made by out US Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg about becoming a parent. Buttigieg had tweeted, “Chasten and I are beyond thankful for all the kind wishes since first sharing the news that we’re becoming parents. We are delighted to welcome Penelope Rose and Joseph August Buttigieg to our family.”Penelope Rose and Joseph August Buttigieg were adopted. This is not the first time Deves made controversial statements about surrogacy.In December, according to Sydney Morning Herald, Deves tweeted, “Surrogacy is reproductive prostitution.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg brushed off attacks from Republicans who make light of his sexuality or he and his husband Chasten being fathers, during a Friday April 8 appearance on The View. Buttigieg, 40, explained that attacks on him personally or dangerous pieces of legislation like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill are often politically motivated to hide the fact that they don’t have further plans to deal with issues that affect Americans.

https://t.co/f8qA6YRI8I— Chasten Buttigieg (@Chasten) April 4, 2022On Monday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten shared details about their twins’ first day in daycare.While Pete Buttigieg mentioned all “the bottles… little jars of baby food… spoons” and everything else that parents rely on to raise kids, Chasten Buttigieg merely tweeted, “If anyone saw me walking around Target looking a little confused and sad earlier today now you know.”Of course, Pete and Chasten Buttigieg are just one of several famous gay couples raising kids.The actor couple’s twins — a son named Gideon and a daughter named Harper — were born via surrogate in October 2010.“We live up in Harlem so they see a ton of stuff, and they’re exposed to stuff at a young age,” Burka said in an Us magazine interview.

Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten revealed that today is the first time their twins went to daycare.At a trucking industry event at the White House with President Joe Biden on Monday, Pete Buttigieg thanked the essential workers that helped deliver baby supplies to his family.“I have to share: This is a big day in my own household because it was our first time taking our kids to daycare,” he said.He then moved on to discussing a new Trucking Action Plan by the Biden Administration.“And as I was getting ready for that,” he told those in attendance, referring to taking his kids to daycare. “I kept looking around at all of the physical items that surrounded us and thought about how they got here.”“The bottles, the little jars of baby food, the spoons we were using to feed them, the high chairs that they were sitting in, even the family minivan itself, got to us because truck drivers brought them where they needed to be,” the Transportation secretary said. “And that's true for everything we count on — groceries, books, livestock, medicine,” Buttigieg said.