Posted on 07/06/2019 4:22:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — Presidential hopeful and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg — who has made history as the first openly gay presidential candidate — hosted a town hall-style meeting and attended a private fundraiser in Provincetown, Mass., known as one of the gayest ZIP codes in America.
And the importance of the moment was not lost on the many LGBTQ fans who showed up to give him a hero’s welcome.
“In my lifetime — as someone in his 50s who came out at 18 — I never thought I’d see a viable, openly gay presidential candidate,” Jay Coburn, who runs an affordable housing agency in Provincetown, told Yahoo Lifestyle as he waited outside of the event wearing a navy blue “Pete Town 2020” shirt.
“It means a lot to me,” Peter, 15, told Yahoo Lifestyle about seeing an openly gay presidential hopeful. He was among 35 teen attendees of an LGBTQ summer sleep-away camp called Camp Lightbulb who sat in reserved front-row seating at the town hall meeting. During his time at the camp, Peter added, “I’ve never felt this accepted in my life.”
It’s something many people notice when they arrive in tiny Provincetown — aka Ptown or, this week, “Pete Town” — on the tip of Cape Cod. It has long been a bohemian outpost for artists, writers, LGBTQ folks and anyone else who’s felt like a misfit, though it’s recently shifted into more of an elite gay getaway (with showrunner Ryan Murphy, a Buttigieg supporter, and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow among its most A-list homeowners). Joe Biden made a money-making campaign stop here in 2012, followed by Hillary Clinton in 2016, both of them bringing a swirl of excitement.
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There’s a sleep away camp for “LGBT” teenagers, in the gay mecca of Provincetown???? Who knew?????
Oh, a gay Democrat gets the LGBTQWERTY support
What a huge accomplishment
Pete is the Lone Rump Ranger.
Proud to take it........... Well, where the sun don’t...... I mean it rhymes with Anderson Cooper’s last name.
Time to get rid of this national joke.
Go away, Peter eater and get back in the closet where you and your “husband” belong.
Is that his claimed qualification? That he’s gay?
“I never thought I’d see a viable, openly gay presidential candidate...”
If Butt-giggity gets 100 percent of the alphabet soup vote, he would get enough to carry a good-sized Midwestern county, let alone win the election. So let him ... bend over ... for the homos, for all the good it will do him.
POTUS: Poofter of the United States.
“it’s ‘historic’” is a mantra for selling a mere image, regardless of subtsance. They wanted it with Billary, Inc. and they did it with Obama (first woman, first “black”) and MILLIONS of their sheeple voted for the image.
History in the making? So was Sodom and Gomorrah.
Buchanan was gay. Obama was gay. Not historic. Hysterical perhaps.
Like Obama all he has is his “minority status”.
Like Obama he’s a professional and unlike Obama, whose time in office was unremarkable, Buttgood here has screwed up his small town.
But he’s gay (and a white male) so that makes him popular!
‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy.”
Well, that’s one city i wont be going to. Probably has more AIDS cases like any faggot city in America..
That had to hurt.
If you’re gonna lock up the gay vote, might as well campaign in a gay stronghold. P-Town fits the bill.
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