South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg To Marry Boyfriend
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | December 30, 2017
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Thursday announced he is engaged to marry his boyfriend.
According to the South Bend Tribune, Buttigieg, 35, announced his engagement to Chasten Glezman, a teacher, in a Facebook post.
“He said yes!” Buttigieg wrote. “Can't wait to spend the rest of my life with Chasten Glezman.”
A spokesman for Buttigieg confirmed that the mayor was engaged.
Buttigieg came out gay in a June, 2015 op-ed. He explained at the time that he struggled with his sexuality and considered it a personal matter.
“But it's clear to me that at a moment like this, being more open about it could do some good. For a local student struggling with her sexuality, it might be helpful for an openly gay mayor to send the message that her community will always have a place for her. And for a conservative resident from a different generation, whose unease with social change is partly rooted in the impression that he doesn't know anyone gay, perhaps a familiar face can be a reminder that we're all in this together as a community,” he said.
Buttigieg, a Democrat now in his second term as mayor, became the youngest mayor of a U.S. city with at least 100,000 residents when he first took office in 2011.
(Related: Mayor Pete Buttigieg backs Notre Dame walkout of Mike Pence commencement.)