South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg answers questions during a sold-out fundraising event at Bar Lubitsch in West Hollywood, Calif., last month. “It got real gay real quick out there.”Few Democratic presidential candidates could assess their surroundings so bluntly without seeming painfully out of line. When he was elected mayor of South Bend, Ind., in 2011, he had told only a few friends he was gay. The mayor of South Bend swiped right on Chasten’s Hinge profile. “That he’s so unembarrassed — that is a good lesson for other gay and lesbian people about him and his husband,” Frank said.

Source: Washington Post April 06, 2019 17:32 UTC