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Buttigieg discusses previously believing that being gay would keep him out of politicsPete Buttigieg said Thursday that while he – at one point in his life – thought being gay would have kept him out of politics, he now sees how his identity “is actually very much part of the impact I get to have now.”
“I would have done anything, at a certain time in my life, I would have done anything not to be gay and believed that as that reality became inescapable, that it might cost the chance to serve, in uniform or in office,” Buttigieg said. “And here I am now finding that that very same fact that I thought might prevent me from having an impact in the world, at least a certain kind of impact in a certain kind of way, it's actually very much part of the impact I get to have now.
Buttigieg, who came out in an op-ed in 2015, has reluctantly embraced his unlikely role as a symbol of LGBTQ progress. While he speaks about it across the country, it is not central to his candidacy, nor is it something that regularly comes up at events. "I had strongly supported the causes from the beginning, but did not want to be defined by them," he wrote of LGBTQ rights.
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