“For some time, [my husband] Chasten and I have wanted to grow our family. We’re overjoyed to share that we’ve become parents! The process isn’t done yet and we’re thankful for the love, support, and respect for our privacy that has been offered to us. We can’t wait to share more soon.”— Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg shares some good news via Twitter
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Derek Northcutt
Now we can wait for the disgusting comments from Lauren Bogert, Ann Coulter, & Marge Green. They’ll probably say something intelligent like, “if only we had the Taliban government!”
Invader7
Those females are pissed cause they haven’t had penis in a VERY long time !!!
Kangol2
Congrats to them. They look like they’ll be wonderful parents!
Godabed
I don’t know why people feel the need to publicize this, I get a visibility angle for I think for a lot of people it’s just Narcissism. This is a personal thing why aren’t you sharing them solely for the people in your life?
I don’t get it.
LumpyPillows
Perhaps because they are in the public eye and role models. It is not that common for gay men to build families even today, and it is new when such a high-profile gay man takes the step. I don’t know why people like you have to rain on everyone’s parade all the time. Why is that?
daddytop
He has a Cabinet position in the Biden Administration! And if anyone deserves to be a little narcissistic, it’s Pete. He is brilliant, accomplished and wise, and he’s only 39 years old. Be happy for him and his family.
MacAdvisor
Why are they sharing the news about having a child? Because people share that good news? Have ever SEEN a gender reveal party? A baby shower? Birth announcement cards? They are sharing the good news about themselves because they are normal human beings and that’s what we do.
Cam
Hi Right wing troll account. Nice to see you expose your new screename.
ANY time somebody LGBTQ comes out of the closet or announces some news you’re in here calling them attention seekers.
Funny though, I don’t see you say the same thing when right wing bigots talk about any of their lives.
We get it, Pete and Chasten publicizing a happy gay family makes it harder for you to troll.
Congratulations to the happy couple, and keep being out there.
jcool
@godabed
i agree with you on one point.
you don’t get it
D_Bro
When you are as visible as the Buttigiegs you are expected to make an announcement., If they don’t, then the paparazzi will start making up things.
sweetbabiesmom
Do you read the news on a daily basis? Do you read People magazine or watch tv shows about famous people? If so, your statement is hypocritical.
Squeak
Well said Godabed !
daddytop
Congratulations!
LumpyPillows
I think these guys are great. T
inbama
I wish there were not so many obstacles to gay couples adopting. I know a lot of feminists who are very unhappy about “womb rental.” The process isn’t as safe and easy as it’s advertised. And of course, it’s also a class thing as it can cost you upwards of a hundred grand before you’re done.
radiooutmike
Those obstacles are state and county-centered.
Anecdotally, LGBTQ couples were likely more likely to adopt children of other races and children with some type of physical or behavioral issue. To paraphrase my ex who DCF social worker/investigator and and then a supervisor… Most couples don’t want to adopt a biracial fire-starter. At least most white hetero couples.
Hank31
Pete is a great guy and I am sure he will be an outstanding dad. However, you have to wonder about the character and judgment of Chasten. That guy gave an interview to the Washington Post in which he cheerily described how he would not accompany his father and brother as they went out to hunt or play sports, but would instead stay home with his mother and “dust the cabinets.”
It was a cringey and pathetic interview, and he seemed completely oblivious. Since Chasten is likely to spend more time with the kid than Pete, I hope they are adopting a girl.
Cam
And as always the same right wing troll account switched screenames to come in and say something negative any time an out of the closet LGBTQ says anything.
Sweetie, if you’re going to use this screename to defend bigots on other threads you may want to switch to one of your others when you come in and pretend to be “Concerned” over Chasten.
linedrive
Huh?
KRobert57
Félicitations you guys. I hope you get the family and family life you both want and deserve.
Prax07
I’ll never get why people want kids, especially successful independent people. Kids are nothing but a lifelong life drain.
white-queer-african
I’ll never get why a great deal of queers are so miserable. By giving a child another opportunity in life to be loved and cared for, even by a queer couple, that is the greatest joy ever.
Openminded
Obviously, you have no kids. Therefore, you have no right making the idiotic claim that kids are a “life long drain”. I have 3- kids and have also been fortunate enough to amass a very good financial portfolio. Trust me, I’d take the kids over the wealth in a heartbeat.
Terrycloth
Pete could keep it to himself or have told a couple people.remember he is famous , telling it now he’s ahead of the tabloids who may write a hatchet job story.
white-queer-african
Ever so happy for them. The day you get to hold your child, “adopted or not”, for the first time, stays with you forever. We experienced that nearly 10 years ago. Our son was born on the 08th of October 2011 at 15h45 and I was able to hold him for the first time at 21h00. The slight delay was due to complications during his birth. I am thankful every day for his birth mother that entrusted us to take care and love her child as our own.
Prax07
I’ll agree to disagree. Can’t stand children, and there are far too many being a drain on society because their parents rely on the government to pay for their food/medical bills because they just keep on pushing out more.
Cam
So let’s see, EXXON, one of the most profitable companies in the history of the world is getting tax payer funded subsidies, trillions spent overseas in Iraq or Afghanistan, but it’s the people getting $300 in food stamps that are the problem.
Nice try.
white-queer-african
@Prax07 And to think a beautiful woman/mother gave birth to you!
What a disappointment you must be to her!
Roger Doremus
So, as a child, Chasten had the compassion and courage not to kill animals with the rest of the real men, which now makes him fit only to parent girls. Your attitude is truly “cringey.”
TheDefiler
Happy for them to be sure! Yet the timing is beyond tone deaf — on very day that twenty million Afghan women are locking themselves in their homes, fearing the descent of the Taliban to strip them of rights gained after 20 years of advance.
joeboyle49
HEY HANK31 WHY DON’T YOU WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF AND LET PETE TAKE CARE OF CHASTEN