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South Bend, Ind., mayor comes out
2015-06-24

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Peter Buttigieg, the 33-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, publicly came out as gay in an op-ed in The South Bend Tribune.

He wrote that while "I'm not used to viewing this as anyone else's business … it's clear to me that at a moment like this, being more open about it could do some good."

Buttigieg went on to criticize the state's recently passed Religious Freedom Restoration Act, noting that it remains legal in Indiana ( although not in South Bend ) to fire someone for being gay.

In part, he added, "I hope that when my children are old enough to understand politics, they will be puzzled that someone like me revealing he is gay was ever considered to be newsworthy. ... But the true compass that will have guided us there will be the basic regard and concern that we have for one another as fellow human beings—based not on categories of politics, orientation, background, status or creed, but on our shared knowledge that the greatest thing any of us has to offer is love."

In his first re-election bid, Buttigieg fended off a Democratic primary challenge from council member Henry Davis Jr., taking 78 percent of the vote May 5. In 2011, he was elected at age 29 with 74 percent of the vote to become the youngest mayor of a city with more than 100,000 residents in the United States.


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