THE FIGHT SOCAL'S LGBTQ MONTHLY MAGAZINE APRIL 2019
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<strong>THE</strong>ROSTOWREPORT<br />
FOR PETE’S SAKE<br />
By the time you read this<br />
issue of <strong>THE</strong> <strong>FIGHT</strong>, we might<br />
have a gay mayor of Chicago to<br />
go along with our gay governor<br />
of Colorado. Yay. The run<br />
off is April 2. (Cue: Rainbow<br />
confetti.) And of course, we<br />
have our gay presidential candidate,<br />
South Bend Mayor Pete<br />
Buttigieg, who is actually extremely<br />
impressive. The guy’s<br />
brilliant, and makes Beto look<br />
like a tongue-tied wanna be.<br />
Living in Austin, I’ve been<br />
a Beto fan for a long time,<br />
but I am less so now. Did you<br />
read that Vanity Fair article?<br />
He sounds like a dilettante,<br />
frankly—a three-term congressman<br />
fresh off a close but no<br />
cigar run for Senate, who may<br />
be falling for his own media<br />
accolades. I know that Mayor<br />
Pete might lack experience<br />
as well, but he has run a city,<br />
served in a war zone and won a<br />
Rhodes scholarship. Not bad for<br />
thirty-something Millennial.<br />
I recently read a short piece<br />
about whether or not we should<br />
retire the phrase “openly gay.”<br />
The conclusion was basically<br />
yes, with a few exceptions. For<br />
example, if elected, Pete<br />
Buttigieg would be our first<br />
“openly gay” president, because<br />
James Buchanan did not advertise<br />
his sexual orientation. That<br />
said, everyone knew about it.<br />
And since Buchanan is generally<br />
considered to be the worst president<br />
ever, a man who facilitated<br />
our descent into civil war, I look<br />
forward to the time when we<br />
can upgrade our community’s<br />
subpar presidential reputation by<br />
putting an outstanding gay man<br />
or woman into the White House.<br />
On the other hand, I<br />
suspect Trump will take over<br />
Buchanan’s spot at the bottom<br />
of the presidential barrel once<br />
history sorts him out.<br />
FRUMPY<br />
OLD MEN<br />
For now, I’m rooting for<br />
Harris, but of course I will<br />
PETE<br />
BUTTIGIEG<br />
support whoever we nominate<br />
to run against Trump. As for<br />
collusion, impeachment and<br />
scandal, I’m for getting rid<br />
of him in the most humiliating<br />
manner—at the ballot<br />
box. Don’t give him a victim<br />
card. Make him a one-term<br />
president, a loser with nothing<br />
to boast about. Overshadow<br />
his 2016 electoral college victory<br />
with a tall column of blue<br />
states. Let him set a record for<br />
worst performance by a sitting<br />
president in the modern age.<br />
And please don’t put Pence<br />
in power, even for a day. Let<br />
him vanish into irrelevancy<br />
>> BY ANN ROSTOW
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