Chasten Buttigieg: Shares His Side of the Story

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Allow us to reintroduce Chasten Buttigieg. He joins us to talk about what he learned traveling the country with his husband, Pete Buttigieg, during the 2020 presidential primary, what it was like growing up gay in Northern Michigan, and his new book, I Have Something To Tell You. Click here to listen to our 2019 interview with Pete Buttigieg: apple.co/2M82BaM LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate magazine, in partnership with GLAAD. Come find us on Twitter to recommend a guest, @lgbtqpod.

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0:00.0	From the Advocate magazine in partnership with Glad, this is LGBTQ and A.
0:11.0	I'm Jeffrey Masters, and if I'm being completely honest, I have a bit of a hard time wrapping
0:17.0	my brain around this story.
0:20.0	Chastin Buttigieg met a guy on Hinge.
0:22.9	They hit it off.
0:24.0	It actually worked out.
0:25.8	They got married, and then that guy ran for president.
0:28.6	And not only that, but he objectively and historically killed it.
0:34.2	It still shocks me.
0:35.9	Pete Buttigieg was a top-tier presidential contender who won the Iowa
0:41.0	caucus. He was an outgay man who was taken seriously in his run for president. And the person
0:48.3	at his side, his husband, Chastin, he met on a dating app. I personally will be taking those apps a lot more seriously in the future.
0:57.2	I will tell you that.
0:58.6	And yes, Chastin is here today to talk about the historic Buttigieg presidential campaign,
1:04.3	as well as criticism they faced, the toll it took on its mental health, and writing
1:09.9	about it all in his first book,
1:11.8	it's out now, a memoir called I Have Something to Tell You, So Let's Hear It.
1:17.2	Without further ado, this is Chastin.
1:45.7	You know, for all of the press you did during the Democratic primary and for everything that was written about you, it wasn't until reading your book that I realized how unique your position also was as an out gay man in a relationship with someone running for president that has never happened before in our history. Was that something that you thought a lot about
1:50.7	or talked about with the team? I thought about it endlessly. I obviously encouraged him to run and
1:56.7	you know, gave him all this support and said, go for it. But that's because I had no idea what
2:01.0	running for president was like. And so it's very easy to say like, yeah, I love you. You'd be
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