{"id":134635,"date":"2020-03-03T14:43:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T13:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/03\/buttigieg-the-first-openly-gay-presidential-candidate-was-hated-by-the-left-why-aaron-hicklin\/"},"modified":"2020-03-03T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T13:43:43","slug":"buttigieg-the-first-openly-gay-presidential-candidate-was-hated-by-the-left-why-aaron-hicklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=134635","title":{"rendered":"Buttigieg, the first openly gay presidential candidate, was hated by the left. Why? | Aaron Hicklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who recall when just entering a gay bar was dangerous, seeing a gay presidential candidate get so far while being mercilessly pilloried was a disorienting experienceThe day after Pete Buttigieg won Iowa, the writer Mark Harris, who is married to playwright Tony Kushner, tweeted, \u201cEven if you support someone else, as I do, the fact that a gay man can win a state caucus for President is a welcome milestone.\u201dIowa has long been something of an outlier \u2013 in 2004 it was among the few Republican controlled states that rejected a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage \u2013 but the idea that a gay man could win the Democratic caucus there took most Americans by surprise. That it was a milestone, as Harris pointed out, was clear \u2013 or should have been. The fact that it needed stating said everything about this strange, emotional, deeply divided campaign. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/mar\/03\/buttigieg-the-first-openly-gay-presidential-candidate-was-hated-by-the-left-why\" target=\"_blank\">Buttigieg, the first openly gay presidential candidate, was hated by the left. Why? | Aaron Hicklin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who recall when just entering a gay bar was dangerous, seeing a gay presidential candidate get so far while being mercilessly pilloried was a disorienting experienceThe day after Pete Buttigieg won Iowa, the writer Mark Harris, who is married to playwright Tony Kushner, tweeted, \u201cEven if you support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}