'A kind of war': Buttigieg describes struggle with sexual orientation in an emotional speech
Pete Buttgieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana may not become president or win the Democratic primary, but he's already broken a barrier by delving publicly and intimately into his struggle with his own sexuality in a way no other serious presidential candidate has.
Buttgeig has described wrestling with his sexual orientation as "a kind of war" - one he said he was only able to win when he came from serving in Afghanistan. As a youngster in high school and college, he said, the situation was very different.
"If you could have offered me a pill that could make me straight, I would have swallowed it before you could give me a swig of water," Buttigieg said at the LGBTQ Victory Fund's annual brunch. "It's a hard thing to think about now. If you had shown me exactly what is was that made me gay, I would have cut it out with a knife."
He then added later: "Thank God there was no pill. Thank God there was no knife."
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