Chasten Buttigieg, the bestselling author and husband of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, showed everyone how to gracefully and grandfully clap back at a homophobic bully earlier this year.
On the day conservative blowhard and lifelong homophobe Rush Limbaugh died, the 31-year-old simply tweeted a picture of himself kissing his husband. Though it was submitted with no comment, the photo spoke volumes.
Limbaugh spent much of the 2020 presidential primary season trashing the Buttigiegs, obsessing over their relationship, and mocking them for kissing in public. Chasten re-sharing the image on the day of Limbaughâs passing served as a reminder that, in the end, love always prevails.
â Chasten Glezman Buttigieg (@Chasten) February 17, 2021
But Chastenâs advocacy for LGBTQ issues goes far beyond a simple public kissâand an epic clapback.
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During his husbandâs historic presidential primary campaign, which included winning the Iowa primary, he served as campaign spokesperson and advisor, and was often called Peteâs âsecret weaponâ when it came to fundraising. In the process, he emerged as a fierce and effective advocate for equality.
From using his huge social media platform to urge the Senate to pass the Equality Act to touring a local LGBTQ center while campaigning for his husband to speaking out against hate and bullying, he gives us pride in the ways he continuously brings attention to the discrimination we face while also serving as a positive example of queer leadership and love.
âI donât think we can be comfortable where weâre at now,â he told Marie Claire in 2019. âEquality wasnât won when we were granted marriage equality, it was just the beginning. We canât be complacent with where weâre at right now. Weâre just getting started.â
MissTerri
He makes a very effective political “wife”!!!
Cam
Nothing outrages the right wing anti-LGBTQ trolls more than an out of the closet person.
And nothing exposes you trolls more than the fact that you think the greatest insult is to associate a guy with something female.
MissTerri
Hi-LAR-ious!!!
Cam
@MissTerri
Awww, the right wing troll account got called out for it’s anti-LGBTQ bigotry and tried to use the same tired response.
Idea, maybe as your manager at the troll farm to get you a better English class.
MissTerri
Keep a’flapping away, you Silly Silly Queen!!!
boblrice
Seriously MissTeri, does someone pay you to troll this site?
Also, itâs painfully obvious youâre a straight idiot who mustâve learned somewhere that gays say things like âsilly queenâ, even though literally no one has used that in 30 years.
Cam
@MissTerri
And once again, the anti-LGBTQ troll shows that it considers the worst insult, anything that means feminine.
And as for your word choice, try taking a class in modern slang over at the troll farm.
Fahd
Pete was all over the morning news today with his first big Secretary of Transportation challenge with this East Coast gasoline shortage. He’s very reassuring, but he’s so calm and technocratic that it sometimes comes off as robotic — I wish he could do more of the “I feel your pain” empathy thing – it would help him get more votes if/when he runs for elected office again.
As for Chasten, he seems like a man of limitless skills and abilities, but he’s too young to rely on tailoring to obscure a waistline, and the camera adds too.
Together, they will no doubt continue to do great things.
Liquid Silver
Emotion tends to be Pete’s issue, along with cutting the technical crap. Nobody really cares; fix the problem.
“I care!” … that’s nice, read the report. đ
GayEGO
I found that humor is the best medicine. I was harassed as a flute player in the Navy by a trombone player from Missouri. My peers told me to embarrass him with humor. The trombone player use to grab a cigarette from my jumper pocket during our break. So I decided what to do, I screamed and claimed – “You pinched my tit!”. His face turned red and he apologized, never harassing me again.
barryaksarben
BULLSHIT! This is how an adult acts. NO MORE emotional support to garner support. That is what Trump did so well, he go tthe poor ppoor hate filled bigots to think he was their best buddies. Adults do not need anyone to feel their pain they need someone to FIX problems. I am so proud of these two MEN. And if the insecure troll boys like MS Terri think silly silly queen is a terrible insult it shows just how childishly pathetic they are. Why would they be here at all? because they are insecure in their own masculinity and are less than people