Buttigieg Has No Regrets About Coming Out Later In Life

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the gay candidate for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2020 US presidential election said he doe not regret coming out later in life.

“I guess my life would be very different,” he said. “I don’t know if it’d be better or worse. You’re just — you’re ready when you’re ready. I suppose if dating had been available to me in my 20s I might not have done a lot of the other things I wound up doing. But there’s, there’s not a lot to be gained trying to rewind and guess what otherwise would have been.”

One reporter asked Buttigieg if he would be running for president if he hadn’t come out and his answer was: “It’s hard for me to kind of picture alternate universes. But I’m running for president because of what is needed right now, and that’s mainly about vision. And if I saw another candidate offering what I was offering, I would probably be following that, not leading. But I don’t know that that would be different if I weren’t gay. You know my story is part of me, and it’s all part of the same person — and therefore part of the same picture — but where I think America needs to go isn’t about me, it’s about America.”

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