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Mon Feb 24, 2020, 03:38 AM Feb 2020

Nine-year-old boy adorably asks Pete Buttigieg advice on coming out as gay

With the sleeves of his green gingham shirt rolled and a voting badge pinned to his chest, a nine-year-old boy hopped onto the Denver, Colorado, stage to shake hands with Democratic presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg.

The boy had a simple question for the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor: “Would you help me tell the world I’m gay, too?”


“I want to be brave like you,” he said, reported BNN Bloomberg.

" I truly don't care what you think of Pete's politics, but I do care a lot that the 9-year-old boy on this stage is living in a very different era than I did three decades ago. pic.twitter.com/bSMnHbfdxi
— Tim Ball (@tball) February 23, 2020
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Nine-year-old boy adorably asks Pete Buttigieg advice on coming out as gay (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Feb 2020 OP
Am I the only one that thinks this kid's question should have been handled Squinch Feb 2020 #1
Probably Democrats Ascendant Feb 2020 #2
No, you're right. Apologies. It was a submitted question. Squinch Feb 2020 #3
2. Probably
Mon Feb 24, 2020, 08:18 AM
Feb 2020

It was raised in a public event. He chose to run up to the stage and was welcomed with open arms by 1000s of people. Not sure there's a greater coming out story, frankly.

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