Supporters of Pete Buttigieg were often indignant toward liberal perceptions that he was “the wrong type of gay,” without many recognizing his candidacy was the wet dream of one of the first sets of Americans to suggest there was a right type of homosexual.
Until the final act of his failed presidential campaign, Mayor Pete waged revenge for respectability. One of the more enduring legacies of the Annual Reminder – a picket for gay and lesbian employment rights staged at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall every Fourth of July from 1965-69 – was the dress code, and the misguided belief that our wardrobe was the key to winning sympathy for our cause.
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