“His candidacy came after decades of LGBTQ Americans fighting to be heard, be visible, and have a place in the American experience,' GLAAD president says. 'Pete’s success will no doubt lead to more LGBTQ candidates in political races large and small.'
for the White House, Pete Buttigieg on Sunday announced the suspension of his presidential campaign, saying that the best way to advance his campaign’s goal of defeating Donald Trump “is to step aside and help bring our party and our country together.”
“By every historical measure, we were never supposed to get anywhere at all,” the former South Bend, Indiana, mayorto a cheering crowd of supporters Sunday night, before turning to the still-unseen impact of his historic candidacy. “We send a message to every kid out there wondering if whatever marks them out as different means they are somehow destined to be less than,” Buttigieg said. “To see that someone who once felt that exact same way can become a leading American presidential candidate with his husband by his side.
Roberta Kaplan, the attorney who defended lesbian widow Edie Windsor in United States v. Windsor, the landmark Supreme Court case that gutted the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, found that there was much to marvel at in Buttigieg’s run. “If you had asked me after we won the Windsor case seven years ago whether I thought an openly [gay] candidate could credibly run for president in 2020, I would have said you were nuts,” KaplanIf you had asked me after we won the Windsor case seven years ago whether I thought an openly candidate could credibly run for president in 2020, I would have said you were nuts.
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