Here's something I never thought I'd say.

A gay man is running for president.

That's a shocking and historical fact.

Now, I live in L.A., but I'm a Southerner.

I'm from North Carolina, and when I go home, I still leave my skinny jeans in L.A.

I'll take off my nail polish if I'm wearing any.

I'm just aware of how queer I'm presenting.

And it's something that I think a lot about when it comes to Pete Buttigieg.

He is one of the first openly gay people to run for president.

My name is Pete Buttigieg.

They call me Mayor Pete.

I'm a proud son of South Bend, Indiana, and I am running for President of the United States.

I want to know how he and his team are going to be navigating this as he campaigns in more conservative areas.

And I also just want to get to know him as a person.

He's a millennial. He's a veteran.

He met his husband on a dating app that is an equally important historical first.

So today with Pete, we'll be talking about all of this and more.

From Luminary Media, I'm Jeffrey Masters, and this is LGBTQ and A.

I want to start with your military service, if that's okay. You were a naval intelligence officer in Surin in Afghanistan. At that time, Don't Ask Don't Tell was not the law of the land. And yet it seems like if my timeline's correct, you were not out of the closet. Yeah. So Don't Ask Don't Tell was in effect when I joined the military in 2009. But by the time I was deployed in 2014, it had

been repealed. That being said, it wasn't exactly obvious that the military was a gay-friendly

environment. But things were changing. I mean, you knew things were changing. You know, I came out,

like everybody does, I think, when I was ready. You're kind of ready when you're ready,

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