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Buttigieg urges LGBTQ community to turn differences into social change
Buttigieg urges LGBTQ community to turn differences into social change
Associated Press Published 11:43 a.m. ET June 8, 2019 | Updated 4:06 p.m. ET June 8, 2019
DES MOINES, Iowa Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg told an audience in Iowa on Friday that coming out as gay has empowered him in a way he did not anticipate, and he called on others to harness their differences into social activism.
Im going to make the case that anyone who has ever felt like an other has a kind of power. And among others, its the power to relate, the South Bend, Indiana, mayor told about 300 LGBTQ activists and supporters at a banquet honoring Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard, who was beaten to death in 1998 for being gay.
And we can see in our various identities the beginning of a new kind of solidarity, he added.
And we can see in our various identities the beginning of a new kind of solidarity, he added.
Buttigiegs quiet, Midwestern approach, combined with his array of experiences from Rhodes scholar to Afghanistan veteran to married gay man has begun capturing the interest of Democratic activists around the country, including in Iowa, where he has been campaigning more regularly.
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He argued against the Trump administrations ban on transgender troops serving in the military.
But he came back to the point that LGBTQ Americans, but also racial and ethnic minorities, had a special calling to step forward and act on behalf of one another, especially in an environment he characterized, without mentioning President Donald Trump, as increasingly hostile to such communities.
Not that your experience of being an other is the same as mine, he said. But it gives us the basis to look out for each other.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/08/pete-buttigieg-democrat-urges-lgbtq-community-to-cooperate-for-social-change/1391989001/
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babylonsister
Jun 2019
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marble falls
(57,014 posts)1. Liking Buttigieg more and more.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
DrToast
(6,414 posts)2. He is one impressive/smart dude. Especially considering his age.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
marble falls
(57,014 posts)3. Man seems together and remarkable calm.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden