Stephanie Sandberg quoted in The American Prospect

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“‘By the time it’s all said and done: Iowa, you have shocked the nation. Because, by all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire victorious!’

Victorious? Maybe, maybe not; still, Pete Buttigieg made history last week. Never before has a member of the LGBTQ community been a front-runner for their party’s presidential nomination (unless you count worst-president-until-Trump James Buchanan).

‘It’s a revolution,’ said former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, the president and CEO of the LGBTQ Victory Fund, which endorsed Buttigieg last June on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City.

‘It forever changes how the media, pundits, and voters view the electability of openly LGBTQ candidates,’ she said.

Major milestone though it was, however, Buttigieg achieved it without much support from Iowa’s gay Democrats.” 

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Original: “Why Pete Buttigieg isn’t carrying the queer vote”
The American Prospect,
February 10, 2020