'You only get to be one person.' Pete Buttigieg and Rachel Maddow discuss coming out and the weight of 'the closet.' - NBCOUT
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg leaves the stage after announcing his presidential candidacy in Indiana on April 14, 2019.It's been less than four years since gay marriage was legalized in the U.S., and LGBTQ people still face hurdles in adopting children, joining the military and buying wedding cakes.
In addition to coming out to others, Buttigieg, now 37, revealed it also took him “plenty of time to come out to myself.” “I did get a lot of meaning from that work, and in some ways, because it was so demanding, I almost didn’t mind for a sort of inordinately long time that I didn’t have much of a personal life,” he said. “The city was a jealous bride for a long time and kept me busy.”“I realize that you only get to be one person,” he told Maddow. “You don’t know how long you have on this earth, and by the time I came back, I realized, ‘I’ve got to do something.
“I felt like I had done a good job by the people of South Bend, and I had some level of trust that I would be rewarded for that with a re-election, but there’s no way to really know,” he said. “There’s no playbook, no executive in Indiana had ever been out, and so it was kind of a leap of faith.”
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