Queer activists disrupt Pete Buttigieg event in San Francisco: 'We deserve better'. Fundraiser highlights division as growing number of LGBTQ+ voters say his views don’t represent them

The Guardian ^ | February 14, 2020 | Vivian Ho

[karpov]

At the center of San Francisco’s National LGBTQ Center for the Arts, two queer activists stood up and disrupted a private fundraiser for Pete Buttigieg after he received a question from the audience about his husband, Chasten.

The packed room quickly booed down the activists, drowning out their pointed questions on Friday with chants of “Boot-Edge-Edge! Boot-Edge-Edge!” as they were escorted out of the building.

“I respect your activism, but this is a gathering for supporters of our campaign and I just got a question about my husband and I’m really excited to answer it,” Buttigieg quipped from stage, drawing strong applause from the crowd.

The activists were part of a group protesting outside the event that reflected a growing disquiet among the LBGTQ+ community when it came to the Buttigieg campaign. Buttigieg may be the first openly gay candidate to sweep the national stage and perform as well as he has in Iowa and New Hampshire, but more and more young queer voters say they feel he is not representative of them or their experiences.

“I’m definitely proud of the fact that a gay candidate has made it thus far, but it’s hard to enjoy or appreciate when his stances are so middle of the road and speak to a predominantly white, upper class audience,” Celi Tamayo-Lee, one of the activists escorted out of the fundraiser, said in an interview before the event.

Friday’s protesters cited many of the same issues that members of the LGBTQ+ community nationwide say are giving them pause – Buttigieg’s unwillingness to support Medicare for All, free college for all, his issues with communities of color, his ties to billionaire donors – all issues that are not specific to the LGBTQ+ community but still affect them at certain intersections.

[karpov]

With Sanders you get communism, and with Buttigieg you get a man kissing his "husband" and lots of queer drama. You may get the communism too, since Buttigieg's father was a communist.

[Da Coyote]

Just what, exactly, is the “better” that they deserve?
(Other than living in one of the most fetid, corrupt, and drug-ridden cities in the country and also having to live with Google employees)?

Sorry gays, you made it, live it, love it, and STFU.

[jimmygrace]

They think he’s middle of the road? Lord, help us!

[gibsonguy]

They were a plant to make Poofter Pete look good. This must be screamed whenever we see this story. They are furiously painting Pete as the voice of reason candidate to triangulate against “Crazy Bernie”. We learned in the first debates he is as radical as any of them. They are in the process of fitting him with the moderate mask for the general.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Just ogay is not ogay...

[ncpatriot]

Can’t believe the Guardian is using the word Queer.

[real saxophonist]

[mylife]

[Rummyfan]

The queer Buttigieg is not queer enough. Unbelievable.

[frank ballenger]

I learn something every day on this site.
So Buttigieg’s father was a Communist.

I had assumed he was like the Temptations song....

Papa Was a Rolling Stone

....
Folks say Papa would beg, borrow, steal
To pay his bills
Hey Momma
Folks say Papa never was much on thinking
Spent most of his time chasing women and drinking
Momma I’m depending on you to tell me the truth
Momma looked up with a tear in her eye and said, son

Papa was a rolling stone
Wherever he laid his hat was his home
And when he died, all he left us was alone

[Gay State Conservative]

I guess the faggots in San Fransicko want someone who’ll fornicate on stage during rallies and boast about all the times he’s had syphilis.

[kaehurowing]

If Buttigieg were president, his whole administration would be about homosexuality. I hope the country is not stupid enough to vote for this guy. Plus his first move will be to persecute Christians.

[Stravinsky]

This one event sure has received a lot of coverage. I’m sure that’s just a coincidence and has nothing to do with trying to paint Pete the Red as being more moderate than he really is.

[Delta 21]

Fags disavow Butt~giggy on principle?

That should tell folks something.

[Cuttnhorse]

Mark Steyn, filling in for Rush yesterday, had a GREAT segment on Buttiwhatever...called him out for the phony he is. Said Butti came “out” in 2015, like that was some kind of brave big deal.

Mark rightly called him a phony twit.

[MrEdd]

And go to foam parties.

[Gay State Conservative]

Sorry...don’t have the first clue what a “foam party” is.And I’m pretty sure that I don’t *want* to know! ;-)

[Bommer]

If Buttigieg were president, his whole administration would be about homosexuality. I hope the country is not stupid enough to vote for this guy. Plus his first move will be to persecute Christians.

Bingo. He is playing the rubes from the same playbook that Obama used. Pretend to be everything you are not. Obama was a Christian who opposed gay marrage and was a uniter who talked about his white grandma and white grandpa. Gets elected and turns back into a radical black muslim homosexual that he and his tranny wife Michelle are.

To be honest, why isnt anyone who lives oitside South Bend not bringing up his pathetic record of governong? Why is a failed lying mayor considered to be a great candidate for President, when a successful mayor of an Alaskan town with a record of prosperity and growth (Palin) was said to be unqualified for Vice President.

[SaveFerris]

[a private fundraiser for Pete Buttigieg after he received a question from the audience about his husband, Chasten]

Democrats will not be happy until the entire USA has gone down the path of Sodom and Gomorrah with a repeat of Genesis 19. This is a full spirit of antichrist movement and yes, it will have real consequences.

The Democrats have been especially insane since 2008 and the advent of the Lying Kenyan Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama. /Captain Obvious

Only fools wishing to destroy America would vote Democrat these days. That has been painfully-obvious for some time now.

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