BY TORSTEN HOJER
HOLLYWOOD’S most powerful and fabulous homos are mobilised; the eyes of the LGBTIQ+ world are upon him; and Trump-loving, rightwing TV network Fox News is shitting its pants. This is the impact of Pete Buttigieg (pronounced boot-edge-edge): a handsome, young gay man from a little-known mid- Western state who has announced he’s going to run for President Of The United States Of America in 2020. If he becomes the Democratic nominee, he’ll be standing against President Trump: a man revered by redneck, racist, white supremacist, misogynistic homophobes as a god, even while the rest of the world considers him somewhere on a sliding scale between clown and catastrophe. Buttigieg launched his presidential bid by directly butt-kicking everything that Trump stands for. So far, it’s his charming, boy-next-door all-Americanness and erudite eloquence that has shone through. At just 37, his wisehead- on-young-shoulders made noises about real change for a new generation. The next generation.