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Pete Buttigieg says Democrats should hammer home Trump’s Epstein cover-up
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I mean I think trying to say that him saying that is shitty is kinda disingenuous. The guy was born in 1982, grew up in South Bend, Indiana, and probably realized he was gay during the 90s, a time that we, the LGBT community, were still reeling from and dealing with the AIDS crisis. I have no doubt a ton of queer kids back then thought the same as him because they just wanted to be normal and not thought of as monsters.
Plus his parents worked at Notre Dame, a Catholic university. So he was probably around a whole lot of not very accepting Catholics during his childhood.
What the point of that story was at the time was that he had to accept who he was, and that it was okay to be gay. That's a thing a lot of queer people have to go through.
Yeah. Matthew Shepard was murdered when he was 15 or 16. There's a reason "Pride" is named "Pride", and it's not because pride and acceptance is the default state for homosexual youths.