You Wanted Same-Sex Marriage? Now You Have Pete Buttigieg

[quote]from ACT UP activists to the queer wing of the DSA

Reminder: your homosexuality doesn't matter and you're in no way useful to us unless you're a democratic socialist.

[quote]Realistically, the US electorate is more likely to vote for someone who presents himself like Buttigieg than for a polyamorous bottom queen.

And?

I want a president not a polyamorous bottom queen. I want him to work, not spend his days on Grindr looking for milky loads.

r2. That would still be a vast improvement over Trump who is constantly on Twitter.

I still can't believe how homophobic the left has become in the last few years or so.

I don't understand it.

If they don't like his politics just attack his politics, but no, they are always with the same shit of not being the right kind of gay

[quote] they are always with the same shit of not being the right kind of gay

no one but columnists call him "not the right kind of gay."

They are amazed that every gay isn't supporting him just because he's gay.

Believe it or not, gays actually have brains that can handle deep, complex thought.

Author of this piece back in April...

[quote]Takes about Mayor Pete Being Bad For The Gays Are Bad For The Gays.

You know, back when he was still just an adorable novelty and not yet a threat to her Dear Leader.

Also, why the accusatory "You wanted same-sex marriage?" as though this is to be embarrassed about? Why the hell should gay and lesbian couples apologise for wanting equality?

R6: That's not true. Everytime someone bashed him on twitter for not being the right kind of gay it's always a gay (or even better a queer) guy

This is honestly harmful and gross. Fuck Buzzfeed and this author - “if you suck dick, but you’re not sucking Bernie Sanders’ dick - are you the right kind of gay?”

Will people hopefully look back on this primary season when it’s done and reflect on this kind of bullshit gate keeping/policing and all the coded homophobia being thrown around like it’s nothing... ? Probably not.

When gay marriage became legalized, I remember all these "queer" activists posted articles about how marriage is a conservative institution and how it won't help gay people. What morons. I guess having the right to visit your husband/wife in the hospital means nothing to them.

[quote]Buttigieg has clearly benefited from the cultural cachet afforded by his whiteness, maleness, and academic pedigree. Some of Buttigieg’s supporters have actually weaponized his sexuality, too, using cries of anti-gay prejudice to turn around and discriminate against other groups, like spreading the insidious and racist lie that homophobia is the reason Buttigieg is floundering with black voters.

It's always these fucking queers that bitch about successful white gay men ruining the movement, but then demand those same white gay men bankroll their homophobic, misogynist causes "because privilege."

They are always so quick to crucify the white gay male that they do not even recognize or acknowledge the "assimilationist" lesbian. This ironically highlights their own subservience to the patriarchy and their own erasure of women. And that's not even counting their misogynist pro-tranny stances.

The queer movement is at its core homophobic. Denigrating legalized gay relationships (gay marriage) - which is what they do - is the crux of what it means to be homophobic.

And note that not ONCE does this queer cunt use the word lesbian in her article.

She and her homophobia can get fucked.

There is a point to the mainstream gay rights movement being marriage focused to the detriment of anti-discrimination laws. It is legal to be fired for being gay in a majority of states right now. I wish the movement had been more holistic in it's approach so we wouldn't have the lopsided legal situation we have now.

Dear Matt Anscher,

please get on your meds.

Thanks.

Women were NOTORIOUSLY savage concentration camps guards during the Holocaust

[quote]You Wanted Same-Sex Marriage? Now You Have Pete Buttigieg

I feel like I’ve had a stroke, because that headline just doesn’t make any sense.

I’m not sure I’m understanding the authoress’s point on marriage. She’s saying it exists for middle class people to hoard their money? Well, does that mean if you never get married you’re likely to share it with the world?

Also, I’m surprised she didn’t squeeze in a “trans women of color are literally murdered every five minutes” because she seems like the type that would.

Buttigieg is the gay Manchurian candidate. He is the perfect example of a slick politician ready to sell his sole to the devil, if he had one.

[quote]Also, why the accusatory "You wanted same-sex marriage?" as though this is to be embarrassed about? Why the hell should gay and lesbian couples apologise for wanting equality?

Because while we were working on securing our rights to marriage, employment and adoptions, in the meantime we obviously didn’t do enough to uplift our trannie and enby betters.

I mean, *duh*.

[quote]ready to sell his sole to the devil

Satan only eats salmon, natch.

Crap. Do I lose points for spelling errors?

Right on R20!

Like Liz Warren said, (black) enbys are the BACKBONE of our democracy!

[quote] If you suck dick, but you’re not sucking Bernie Sanders’ dick - are you the right kind of gay?

I'm stealing this.

I see the Left is still picking Presidents like it picks social media "friends" (DELETE). They didn't learn anything from 2016.

This sentence, buried about two-thirds of the way through, is what the article is really about:

[quote][bold][italic] Earlier this year, I tried to do just that, pitching a profile of Buttigieg when he first started gaining momentum in the spring. But the interview never came through.... [/bold][/italic]

TL;DR: she'd met him and Chasten at a party a few years back, before he was a candidate, likely told everyone she had an in with him, the in never happened and now she's pissed and writing hit pieces.

Yeah. DL is representative of the left. It isn't just reflective of a minority of shut-in, bitter gays.

Another pointless hit piece written by a self-described 'radical queer' woman against a mainstream gay Democratic candidate. We are without a doubt our own worst enemies -- and the hysterical tears of rage if/when Trump wins a 2nd term will not cause *any* self-reflection whatever in these ideological purists.

Is she "radical queer" though?

Or just, as noted, at R26, pissed off that Pete's team won't give her insider access given they are both gay?

Sounds more like the latter TBH

no lies detected.

Yet more "queer" nonsense: trans activist admits that if gender is on a spectrum, "homosexuality doesn't really exist" and "sexuality is redundant".

[quote] I feel like I’ve had a stroke, because that headline just doesn’t make any sense.

This quote could apply to 99% of Buzzfeed headlines.

The Left only cares about the T in LGBT.

You wanted pasta primavera? Now you have Pete Buttigieg.

You wanted eggroll? Now you have Pete Buttigieg.

You wanted NSA three-ways with your ex and Ginny in Billing? Now you have Pete Buttigieg.

The far-left is just as out of touch and dangerous to the country as the far-right.

I wouldn’t call the article far left - it’s just poorly conceived and written.

[quote]TL;DR: she'd met him and Chasten at a party a few years back, before he was a candidate, likely told everyone she had an in with him, the in never happened and now she's pissed and writing hit pieces.

Which is hilarious because he talks to EVERYONE. Seriously, he was doing hour-long interviews with podcasts for Beanie Baby collectors and sitting down with high-school newspapers.

[quote]r39 he was doing hour-long interviews with podcasts for Beanie Baby collectors and sitting down with high-school newspapers.

You wanted mint condirion [italic]Patti the Platypus[/italic] beanie baby, with hang tag? Now You Have Pete Buttigieg.

This article is fucking crazy.

I wanted same-sex marriage, now all I have is peanut butter.

r42 IS LITERALLY GOING TO KILL US!!!

[quote]Following the reception, I was chatting with a group of people outside of a hotel afterparty when I heard somebody from the street yell, “Hey, BuzzFeed!” I turned; it was Pete and Chasten, who’d rolled down their car window. One of them, I couldn’t tell which, waved at me and shouted: “Hit us up if you’re ever in Indiana.” (Earlier this year, I tried to do just that, pitching a profile of Buttigieg when he first started gaining momentum in the spring. But the interview never came through, and I got the sense that his campaign staff wasn’t interested in any more coverage focusing on his gay identity. In a recent follow-up email with Lis Smith, one of Buttigieg’s senior advisers, she recalled that we were “asking for a fair amount of access to Pete and Chasten at home,” and “there were a lot of outlets asking for access like that at that time. Everyone got [the] same answer — was nothing personal or specific to you.”)

Blogger doesn't get access to Pete's house (because presidential candidates are busy like that), proceeds to write a bitter hit piece that he isn't gay enough and that he doesn't matter anyway because he's not actively fighting to dismantle capitalism. That's it, that's all you need to know about all this.

R44 Jesus Christ this bitch thought she was slick ... so her exaggerated sense of self importance took a bit of a hit? Great to know.

All these people who stand by their 'radical queer' ideologies - if everything they wanted came to fruition and everyone acted according to their radical lifestyle, they would find some other platform of fake injustices to distance themselves from society and to feel superior.

Seriously sick and tired of this bullshit. It's so transparent. What the fuck have these 'radicals' changed in gay rights in the past 15 years? Exactly nothing.

The article is also weird in taking gays to task for pushing for marriage equality ... when there were many (if not more) straight people who supported the changes in law, too.

R44 see R26

The narcissism of minor differences.

[quote] He is the perfect example of a slick politician ready to sell his sole to the devil, if he had one.

Why would he want to sell the sole of his shoe?

[quote] Like Liz Warren said, (black) enbys are the BACKBONE of our democracy!

Bitch, have a fucking seat. You're not even the largest minority group anymore and your numbers are dwindling.

stay 👏 in 👏 your 👏 lane 👏

[bold]If one more polyamorous coastal 'queer' tells me Pete Buttigieg isn't gay enough I'll scream. He is — and so am I[/bold]

[quote]Many, if not most, gay people are boring. They don't spend their time sniffing poppers at a Fire Island orgy; they spend their time at churches in flyover states. In rural America, Buttigieg still counts as radical

👏👏👏

Now, now, R53! You're not truly gay unless you have at least three live-in lovers and spend your weekends doing drag!

Now THAT’s a title I like to see! Skylar must be a datalounger R44!

SHOW YOURSELF, SKYLAR!

R53, not R54 duh

r53 thank you for posting that article. Most gay people are just regular assholes with regular jobs, and don't fit the stereotype. It's great to see a normal, non-stereotype guy like Pete in such a prominent role.

I’m genuinely sick of these hit pieces—and that’s exactly what they are—against Pete. He’s not my first choice, but dear God! We worry about conservatives going after a gay candidate when the greatest attacks are coming from the progressives. It’s frustrating.

R58, I genuinely think that "queer" leftists are attacking Buttigieg far more than conservatives are. And that's alarming.

Coming from the other side of the political spectrum I find the attacks on Mayor Pete disturbing.

The left has gone bat-shit bonkers.

Woke homophobia has become the new norm.

The left hates gay men.

The Right has better better to Pete than the Left. The Left is launching one homophobic attack after the next against him.

Pile of garbage- some people don’t know a great man when he’s staring them in the face just as obviously as they don’t know a bad man (Trump) when he’s staring you in the face.

Pretty soon gays are going to revolt and not vote for the Democratic Party like Jews in the UK with Labour. That doesn’t mean we’ll vote Republican, but we’ll be very stingy with our votes. There’s only so far you can trash a minority until they call it quits. Keep making us feel unwelcome and pushed to the sidelines. See what happens. Gay Millennials and Zoomers don’t vote and don’t bring in the money - but keep coddling them, by all means.

Pretty soon gays are going to revolt and not vote for the Democratic Party like Jews in the UK with Labour. That doesn’t mean we’ll vote Republican, but we’ll be very stingy with our votes. There’s only so far you can trash a minority until they call it quits. Keep making us feel unwelcome and pushed to the sidelines. See what happens. Gay Millennials and Zoomers don’t vote and don’t bring in the money - but keep coddling them, by all means.

“Queerness” is the worst thing that’s happened to the Democratic Party in recent years.

Vote Libertarian then.

They hate lesbians too, R62. They seem to think it's exclusionary for a woman to be lesbian rather than bisexual.

So left Twitter is attacking Dan Savage today because he made a funny and accurate observation on this article. and I'm pretty sure he is not a pete fan or supporter

R70 this guy is a faculty member at Northwestern? My condolences to his students.

[quote] allow LGBTQ+ to be as kinky as they wannabe

Sad how quickly homosexuality has been redefined as a glorified kink.

WHAT DOES THAT TWEET EVEN *MEAN* AT R70?!

I'm not even sure the writer himself knows what it means, R73.

Hard-lefty Dems (like Labour in the UK) are their own worst enemies. If their wet dream of a Sanders or Warren nomination happens, it'll be a wipeout by Trump unfortunately.

Wow, the Lefties Hate Homos is a meme I rarely see outside these threads.

Conclusion: Boris is lazy.

I am a politically active Democrat and EVERYONE of my straight democratic colleagues, black, white, Latino, is pro gay.

PRO CIVIL RIGHTS!

Boris, Olga needs to see you down in HR. Bring a box.

STFU r76. There are no boogeymen from Russia on here, contrary to your paranoid fantasies. There are actual Americans who have facts and opinions that you don't want to hear.

You show him how it's done, Olga!

DL would be a lot better without idiots like r76/78.

The "Lefties" are very much pro-Tranny and anti-Gay.

If I had to guess R73, he's making the obvious point that the current healthcare system is cheaper for families or couples and that many times people have coverage via their spouse/significant other.

And that with MFA you would not have that distinction so no penalty for being single and he's defining marriage and family as heteronormative activities.

But that's just a guess. I was as baffled as you.

[quote]this guy is a faculty member at Northwestern?

He has been for about 15 seconds, and it's not going well.

He also presents as more than a little antisemitic.

[bold]Navigating LGBT Marginalization: The Remarkable Presidential Run of Pete Buttigieg[/bold]

Another take I think DL might enjoy. Yes, it's a blog post, but it's pretty insightful when it comes to identifying the causes behind these bizarre think pieces. Points for the Maddow diss. 😄

[quote]When he is interviewed by the media, Pete Buttigieg elicits strangely personal stories that reveal more about the author or interviewer than about the candidate. There's a lot of what I call "lightning rod" defensive talk. Buttigieg is a lightning rod for individual's feelings about gay rights, the gay community, their own sexuality. Rachel Maddow, in her first interview with Buttigieg, hemmed and hawed her way into discussing his relatively late coming out age. She was a bit too nosy and disrespectful when she asked him why it took him a decade longer than her to come out. It came across as an invasion of the man’s privacy. (The short of it: There is no prescribed time, no age factor for coming to terms with being gay.) Ms. Maddow is clearly more comfortable talking with more conventional candidates who appear on her show.

[quote]That Pete Buttigieg confounds society's expectations and norms frustrates the punditocracy and distorts their interpretation of him. From afar they cannot grasp his growing popularity and rely on stale, preconceived ideas from elections and eras past. But as Buttigieg himself has said, despite the sharply divided country, technology, Americans’ attitudes and lives are changing rapidly. When a reporter asked him if he foresaw any problems dealing with nations that treat homosexuality harshly, Buttigieg replied confidently that "they will get used to it quickly."

Pete is the ultimate Gay Boy. He keeps everyone guessing. He's playing chess while others are playing prison leapfrog.

If only he was more attractive. He's hard to look at.

I think he's cute R85. He's not a model, by any means, but he's cute. Chasten is too. More importantly, he is intelligent, thoughtful, and is interested in listening to, and learning from other people. I find this refreshing in a politician.

Pete is a perfectly decent looking guy. Nothing more, nothing less. He does have quite nice eyes though.

I don't give a fuck if politicians are "cute" or not. That's not what they're there for. They can be downright homely, whatever. I'll save "cute" for entertainers.

You Wanted Same-Sex Marriage? Now You Have it UP THE ASS!!

I think he's hawt in a short Mediterranean way.

I don't want Pete get the nomination, but I'd be lying if I haven't though about (consensually) bending him over and pounding what I assume is an extremely (up)tight ass.

[Quote] I still can't believe how homophobic the left has become in the last few years or so.

Because the left is not really leftist or progressive.

[bold]The Decade When the Fight for LGBTQ Rights Went Mainstream[/bold]

[quote]The Buttigieg candidacy has provided both the 2010s’ most on-the-nose symbol of gay political progress and a valuable opportunity for LGBTQ self-reflection: about what perspectives we seek when we advocate for gay representation in politics, about the benefits white gay men still reap from their race and gender, and about what it means that the first viable major party gay presidential candidate is running against several people who are just as eloquent and progressive on LGBTQ issues as he is. The decade that first produced a gay presidential candidacy is also the first decade to see a Democratic primary in which LGBTQ rights aren’t raised as a point of controversy. It feels like a privilege to have the opportunity to disagree.

Wow! Is this a Trump rally?

No, but similar, R94. It's a Bernie Bro rally. Just the other day one of the Dems' Bernie Bro Congressional candidates tweeted that Pete should be hanged for his M4A opposition. The flip coin of a Trumpkin.

Bernie Bros are fucking ridiculous. Truly the deplorables of the Left.

I hope Nina Turner loses the election she's contesting in, she's such a piece of shit.