'Thank you for being so brave,' a 9-year-old boy wrote in a question submitted during a rally for Pete Buttigieg, 'Would you help me tell the world I'm gay, too? I want to be brave like you.' Here's how the 2020 candidate responded.
Denver, Colorado Pete Buttigieg shared an emotional moment with a young supporter in Denver on Saturday night.
"Thank you for being so brave," the boy, later identified as 9-year-old Zachary Ro, wrote in a question submitted via fishbowl during the presidential hopeful's Saturday rally,"Would you help me tell the world I'm gay, too? I want to be brave like you."Zachary, who attended the rally with his parents, joined the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor on stage. He presented Buttigieg with a bracelet, which the Democratic hopeful put on.
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