Pete Buttigieg Met Husband on a Dating App: 'I Could Just Tell He Was Somebody Special'

People Mag ^ | 4.22.2019 | Adam Carlson

[libh8er]

“Literally, there were fireworks on our first date,” Chasten Buttigieg said last year. “It was kind of ridiculous, I know, but I was hooked"

Pete Buttigieg, then the first-term mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was years away from declaring himself a Democratic candidate for president when he matched on the dating app Hinge with Chasten Glezman, then a master’s student in education living in Chicago.

Three years later and they were married, an occasion marked by The New York Times.

As Buttigieg, 37, recalls on the newest episode of the podcast LGBTQ&A, available on Tuesday on Luminary, he came across his future husband (now Chasten Buttigieg, a middle-school teacher) while “laid up and recovering from an injury.”

It was the summer of 2015, and he is pretty sure he broke the ice.

Chasten, Buttigieg remembers in an interview with host Jeffrey Masters, was “pretty witty.” They talked about Game of Thrones.

“A lot of time is kind of hanging out on my phone, and I just I could just tell by the chatting that he was somebody special and that I wanted to meet him,” Buttigieg says.

Meet they did that August, and Chasten moved in by the end of the following year, according to the Times.

“Literally, there were fireworks on our first date,” Chasten told the paper last year. “It was kind of ridiculous, I know, but I was hooked.”

As Buttigieg remembers it, according to his husband, he was not shy about his political ambitions on that first date.

[drypowder]

GAG!!

[Drango]

Just threw up a little in my mouth.

[mrmeyer]

Nobody cares about this degenerate or his semen repository

[BenLurkin]

[Karma_Sherab]

He probably brought him a present on their first date..

[Secret Agent Man]

Perverts. Waxing on about perversion.

[stanne]

Get him off the stage.

Kids who are pre pubescent simply and truthfully cannot deal with this developmentally

The hook.

[Da Coyote]

Wow, and we’ve just hear the most important thing about him that he can say.

Which obviously qualifies him to be a Democrat politician.

[Lurkinanloomin]

[humblegunner]

Just another wild-ridin’ cowboy moseyin’ down the Jism Trail, yep.

[Bon mots]

[ArtDodger]

Isn’t that special...
I thought they met behind a rest area restroom on I-95.

[fishtank]

The more you post about PB, the worse it gets.

[Ciaphas Cain]

This field of candidates just keeps on getting better and better.

[robowombat]

Yep that is what we have come to. A Marxist queer is a serious candidate for the Oval Office, which really will be the Oval Orifice if Buttplug wins.

[billyboy15]

Well isn’t this 3 dollar bill so very special?

[Bullish]

Someone tell this dicklick to STFU.

[Jim W N]

Why is FR so obsessed with this Pete Butterbutt and RINO Romney?

Enoch already.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Sick perverts.