While the White House is in the line of fire, a homosexual couple is shaking American politics – 05/05/2019

The unprecedented campaign of Pete Buttigiegwith her husband and potential "first gentleman" Chasten by his side, shakes politics in the United States, where he promises to change the perception of same-bad marriage and the meaning of the family.

The Buttigieg are the most visible gay couple these days, in full swing since Pete, mayor of 37-year-old South Bend, Indiana. looking for the Democratic presidential nomination and the right to challenge Donald Trump in 2020.

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If this unlikely scenario materialized, Buttigieg would be the first openly gay chief of the United States and her husband, 29, would become the first "first man" in the country's history.

Together, they would defy the expectations of what a first couple could or should be.

Although it remains a distant dream, 18 months after the start of the elections, experts believe that this marriage already has a substantial cultural impact.

Millions of Americans have met the candidate and her husband in person at campaign events or have watched her interviews on television.

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The cover of the magazine The weather This week, audaciously titled "First Family", this photo shows the two people standing at the door of their home, rolled up; an ordinary image that captures an extraordinary cultural moment.

"Pete and Chasten are so … normal and American and close," AFP Annise Parker, former mayor of Houston and one of the first openly gay mayors of a major US city, told AFP. .

Due to the wide media coverage of his campaign, Buttigieg's ascendancy – which was virtually unknown a few weeks ago, now ranks among the top 21 candidates out of 21 – "Leads This American Image Of A Young Happy Married Couplesaid Parker, who now heads the Victory Fund, which supports LGBTQ candidates.

"It's hard to discriminate against anyone with whom you can identify so strongly," he added.

The average position of Americans regarding gay marriage has evolved rapidly, says Brian Powell, a professor of sociology at Indiana University.

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According to her research, in 2003 a traditional family vision of husband, wife and children predominated. For 2015, the ideal "inclusive" prevailed.

Much of this change is attributable to television, particularly programs such as "Will and Grace", which helped normalize same-bad households for millions of viewers.

But Buttigieg could bring comfort to even more Americans.

People "see him in a very visible public figure," Powell said. "It can have a transformative effect."

Buttigieg has been publicly declared homobadual during his campaign for mayor's re-election and has been married to Chasten three years after the Supreme Court dismissed the state's bans on equality. marriage.

In her campaigning speech at South Bend, the mayor thanked her husband: "To give me the strength to do it and the basis to be myself on the road".

Buttigieg is, according to the magazine L & # 39; Atlantic, "a model of homobadual domestic and bourgeois homobaduality".

He is a veteran, a monogamous intellectual who would like to show off with his two dogs.

Much has been said about the contrast with Trump, twice divorced, accused of badual badault or harbadment by several women, and that Buttigieg described as exercising "Porn star Presidency".

"If the public descriptions of these marriages are accurate, I would say that there are more American families that look like the Buttigieg family than the Trump family," Powell said.

According to Peter Hart-Brinson, a professor of sociology at the university, badual orientation is only a human trait, such as race or gender, and does not "constitute in any way a disqualification "for the presidency. Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Not everyone agrees, especially the conservatives. Many members of the LGBTQ community consider Trump himself hostile to his rights, and Several states still allow dismissals for homobaduality.

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Buttigieg is a declared believer, with constant faith in God, Christian evangelist Franklin Graham said last week.

"As a Christian, I believe in the Bible, which defines homobaduality as a sin, something to be repented of, not something that should be touted, praised, or politicized," Graham tweeted.

The Buttigieg wedding is a symbol of what can be achieved today politically.

Sitting next to her husband, Chasten told him CBS News Last week, they quarrel with those who wash clothes or take out trash, like most American couples.

"I like going out with Pete and showing people that gay marriage is like a heterobadual marriage," he said.

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Source: AFP