“Mayor Pete” and the Coming Out of American Politics

Brandon Judell
6 min readNov 17, 2021

“My name is Pete Buttigieg. For understandable reasons, better known as Mayor Pete. And lately still better known as the husband of Chasten Buttigieg.” [Applause.] “I get a lot of questions about why I came out when I did. Whether it was designed to serve some purpose. In fact, it was designed to serve a…

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Brandon Judell

For half a century, Brandon Judell has covered the LGBTQI scene and the arts. He currently lectures at The City College of New York.