The Queer Opposition to Pete Buttigieg, Explained

By artappraiser on Fri, 02/14/2020 - 5:36pm |

By Masha Gessen @ NewYorker.com, Feb. 12

By now, you may have heard that some queer people think that Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a current contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination, is not gay enough. Unless you are immersed in this conversation with other queer people, you may have thought, “That’s ridiculous.” I am here to explain.

The notion that some of us think Buttigieg is not gay enough has an identifiable relationship to the facts, which are that, for the purposes of this discussion, people who grew up queer in this country fall into two distinct categories of experience [....]

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