Pete Buttigieg blames criticism of gay media on ‘grumpy moment’

Published September 23, 2019 4:26pm ET



Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg clarified his criticism of queer media after he said he could not “even read the LGBT media anymore, because it’s all, ‘he’s too gay,’ ‘not gay enough,’ ‘wrong kind of gay.’”

Buttigieg, who is openly gay, said he did not mean to be dismissive of the queer media and blamed the remark on a “grumpy moment.”

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